i have found my playing style im a postional player. but today on yahoo i started out strong but then lost my last 7 of 12 games. and the games i won i won on time. so can someone give me at least 5 solid openings for the queen pawn game. (dont give me the queen's gambit or any gambits). also if you don't mind can you also give me at least 5 hypermodern openings i want to learn those as well. for white i always play the english or reti opening. so you dont have to post thoses two. i'll post what i play for black later thanks everybody im trying to get my mojo back

Study grammar.

If you wish to learn about openings, you must study the most common gambits, because your opponents will use them.

I am confused. You are trying to find solid defenses for black in response to 1.d4?

 

If this is the case, but you want to avoid the Queen's gambit, then I assume you do not play 1...d5 at all. The most popular of the remaining Queen's pawn defenses that are not gambits are the Indian defenses (1...Nf6). The Dutch and Benoni are very dynamic, but not very solid. They both require active play to justify black's moves.

 

The most popular Indian defenses are: 

The Queen's Indian, the Nimzo-Indian, the King's Indian, and the Grunfeld.

 

Note also that the Pirc, French, Robatsch, and Caro-Kann can also be played against 1.d4. 

 

Hope that helps. Good luck.

 

~TO 

young_roy123 wrote:

i have found my playing style im a postional player. but today on yahoo i started out strong but then lost my last 7 of 12 games. and the games i won i won on time. so can someone give me at least 5 solid openings for the queen pawn game. (dont give me the queen's gambit or any gambits). also if you don't mind can you also give me at least 5 hypermodern openings i want to learn those as well. for white i always play the english or reti opening. so you dont have to post thoses two. i'll post what i play for black later thanks everybody im trying to get my mojo back

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  youngroy_123,

      Play the 5 openings with White that you normally play only play the reversed version of them.  If you find yourself in the Queen's Gambit Delcined, play it so that you have Black's position and Black has White's position.  That way since you are playing White and you moved first you will have Black's position with a move in hand.  You will have the advantage of what is called a Tempii.  Another great idea from Hypermodern Theory.  Remember there are only 3 advantages in chess (TIME, SPACE AND MATERIAL).  TACTICS are a special combination of 1 or more of those 3 advantages. 

Some examples of reversed openings are: Gruenfeld Reversed, Reversed Dutch Opening, etc. You can look them up here on chess.com on the Chess Openings Explorer.

I would suggest to you again at your stage of chess development to concentrate on Tactics Training.  If you would like a listing of a tactics training program let me know, I will be glad to post or private post one for you.

God luck on your professional gunslinging adventures in chess.

transpositions wrote: young_roy123 wrote:

i have found my playing style im a postional player. but today on yahoo i started out strong but then lost my last 7 of 12 games. and the games i won i won on time. so can someone give me at least 5 solid openings for the queen pawn game. (dont give me the queen's gambit or any gambits). also if you don't mind can you also give me at least 5 hypermodern openings i want to learn those as well. for white i always play the english or reti opening. so you dont have to post thoses two. i'll post what i play for black later thanks everybody im trying to get my mojo back

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  youngroy_123,

      Play the 5 openings with White that you normally play only play the reversed version of them.  If you find yourself in the Queen's Gambit Delcined, play it so that you have Black's position and Black has White's position.  That way since you are playing White and you moved first you will have Black's position with a move in hand.  You will have the advantage of what is called a Tempii.  Another great idea from Hypermodern Theory.  Remember there are only 3 advantages in chess (TIME, SPACE AND MATERIAL).  TACTICS are a special combination of 1 or more of those 3 advantages. 

Some examples of reversed openings are: Gruenfeld Reversed, Reversed Dutch Opening, etc. You can look them up here on chess.com on the Chess Openings Explorer.

I would suggest to you again at your stage of chess development to concentrate on Tactics Training.  If you would like a listing of a tactics training program let me know, I will be glad to post or private post one for you.

God luck on your professional gunslinging adventures in chess.

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can you send me a private post of tactics transpostion thanks and for the rest of the post i meant when im playing as white sorry for the confussion

For hypermodern openings you could take a look at this: http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/hypermodern-opening-repertoire-for-white2

For 1.d4, take a look at this book: http://www.chess.com/eq/chess+books/play-1d42

As transposition suggested (and as many, many people have said many times before), for players below rating 1800, probably 99% of games are decided by "obvious" tactical mistakes and have little to do with the opening. Minimizing your own tactical errors and better exploiting the tactical errors of others is the key to improving at chess.

Of course, if you like studying openings or feel that they're currently the weakest part of your game then by all means do it.

I have a couple questions for you though: why do you want to learn 5  different openings? Also, why do you want to avoid the Queen's Gambit? It's generally considered one of the most solid openings for white (some people even say it's not a "real" gambit).

i want to have different openings to throw at ppl. i sometimes get tired of playing the same openings day in and day out thats why. lets understand this im not avoiding the queen's gambit i use to play it alot as white a few years back. but i got tired of playing it so i stopped. then i switch over to the king pawn game and it worked for a while then i stoped playing that. now i play the knight to f3 type of openings and want to switch over to hypermodern openings