Hello people, my name is Mark. I'm 14 years old and from Malaysia. I play the Queen's gambit & the Sicillian Najdorf

Anyone with any useful or interesting tips on these openings can post their ideas here

Thanks

Queens gambit huh? Well frankly whenever someone plays queen's gambit against me I think they are usually expecting that it will be accepted, and I have recently been enjoying the declined line, preferably slav defence. As far as Sicilian, I have just started learning about that.

Yeah. Personally I have the most problems with the Queen Gambit Accepted, especially when Black defends his pawn on c4 and tries to queen his passed pawns

Decline gambits, why play their game?

I agree with Reservesmonkey - when I play a gambit I plan (I almost want to say "obviously") that the gambit will be accepted. It's a real drag most of the time when the gambit isn't accepted.

The only one I'll say is different is when King's Gambit is declined. I sort of think when my opponent does that they get packed like sardines in a crushed tin box.

I don't no

But over here (in Malaysia)...the problem I see with players using the Queen's Gambit is that they assume that their opponents will always decline the gambit. So half of the Queen Gambit players don't really know what to do when someone actually takes their pawn on c4

i avoid any opening with the word "queen" in it.

erik wrote:

i avoid any opening with the word "queen" in it.

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That's a lot of openings!

 I play the queens pawn opening, i usually play against the QGD and KID(yes, he's mean). I do mean the most common defenses played by opponents, i like to control the center.

hmm, black cant defend his pawn on c4 successfully, which is why it isnt a real gambit... if he tries to do this, you should be ecstatic, and learn to tear him apart.  Maybe you mean the declined, slav exchange variation where white takes ages to get his pawn back and black can get connected past pawns on the queenside. 

 

hmm i just checked a line of the QGA and it can still take a while to get the pawn back, but i'm pretty sure if black thinks he can keep it he will come to grief.  I remember some chessmaster tutorial, but i basically decided to decline it so i've forgotten the tactics involved in accepting. 

Thanks for your comments everybody. But do any of you play Sicilian Najdorf(cause I need more help there)