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Post by perseus on Jul 2, 2006 3:15:11 GMT -5
Students of the game refers to students of the openings, which I seem to forget as quickly as I remember.
Anyrate, the question for all your students out there is, what is the best open line (soundish*) for an open game against a cautious (gets in time trouble and does not make blunders) opponent who I cannot manage to defeat?
As white anything goes. Although I would expect a Sicilian reply to P-K4.
As black the reply would probably be to the English.
I am OK on the openings, it is in the middle game, I get bogged down and lose by running out of stamina or being first to make a minor error. Losing a pawn is certain defeat, winning a pawn is not certain victory for me, not that I have ever won a pawn against him.
(* half known Alban Counter Gambit and King's Gambit usually get defeated even OTB at my level.)
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Post by perseus on Jul 5, 2006 18:12:41 GMT -5
Scotch www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=C45Number of games in database: 2088 Years covered: 1770 to 2006 Overall record: White wins 35.8% Black wins 29.2% Draws 35.0% But it seems Kapasarov beat Karpov with it, mere mortals can only try ... |
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Post by perseus on Jul 14, 2006 4:55:04 GMT -5
Anybody know of a soundish outlandish reply for Black to the English?
Something to put a s[panner in the works?
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Post by tumshie on Jul 31, 2006 17:19:22 GMT -5
Against 1.c4 I always play Nf6. 9 times out of 10 white will play d4 pretty soon anyway and away we go into a King's Indian Defence. I was given this advice by an opponent a few years ago and it has served me well. Of course, he didn't give me the advice before he beat me, opening with 1.c4!  |
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Post by perseus on Aug 2, 2006 5:21:52 GMT -5
Against 1.c4 I always play Nf6. 9 times out of 10 white will play d4 pretty soon anyway and away we go into a King's Indian Defence. I was given this advice by an opponent a few years ago and it has served me well. Of course, he didn't give me the advice before he beat me, opening with 1.c4! That's what I usually do, trying to turn it into a Queen's pawn sort of game. It always ends up as a weary defensive slog OTB. And it did again. My stamina is not so great and I made a mistake first. This is a closed game. The idea is how to turn the English into a more open attacking game. from black's perspective. |
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Post by yitwail on Aug 2, 2006 11:49:46 GMT -5
is it possible to play c6 then d5 and dxc4, thus transposing into a slav? (assuming you like the slav, that is)
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Post by perseus on Aug 6, 2006 14:52:39 GMT -5
is it possible to play c6 then d5 and dxc4, thus transposing into a slav? (assuming you like the slav, that is) Don't know what the Slav is. I was thinking along these lines. I expect I will go down without glory. I usually get even or better in the opening playing black against the English, but my track record of wins is rather poor. |
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Post by perseus on Aug 8, 2006 2:59:52 GMT -5
PS: Are there any classic Slav games please?
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Post by yitwail on Aug 8, 2006 9:08:39 GMT -5
PS: Are there any classic Slav games please? you could try chessgames.com. for example, www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D11gets you 1912 games! and, www.chessgames.com/perl/chessopening?eco=D11gives you 2167. of course, most are probably not classic. you can narrow down the choices by clicking Explore this opening. click help? if anything's not self-explanatory. unfortunately, you need to become a member to access games that way. so, another alternative is to search chessgames.com with google. for instance, the search string site:chessgames.com d11 dxc4 "3. nf3" would locate all slav games with 3. Nf3 by white & dxc4 by black. good luck. ;D |
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Post by perseus on Aug 9, 2006 8:09:37 GMT -5
Thanks.
The Slav doesn't seem my style.
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