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I hate playing as black, any solution?

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Radical_Drift

Play the Caro-Kann and Slav :P

nichster

you know the 2 move mate is only possible with black.

Johnkagey

RadioBorshi wrote:

Almost everybody starts with 1.e4 and 2.Nf4. Well, i dont like playing against these players. I know only 1... c5 and 1...e5 and i like neither of them, maybe a little bit more the c5 option... any opening you would reccomend me?

do away with the black pieces and get red ones.

SongbirdGarden

you can't help it, you better deal with it 'cause your gonna half to play black sometime in your life, 

tg-13
I thought this might be helpful. Although I enjoy playing black I find that I win most of the time.
DrSpudnik

Think of your task when black as being like Ju Jitsu: you have to try to seize the initiative when your opponent gives you an opening to do so. It's hard to quantify or put into a formula, but when you figure out how to do that on a regular basis, you'll be a much better player as black or white.

learningthemoves

Yes. Close the distance with a kick, use a leg hook takedown to mount your opponent on the ground, take his back and then finish with a rear naked choke for checkmate. (Just make sure to wake him up soon after or he could suffer permanent brain damage.) In other words, learn the Sicilian Defense!

dops78

Just think you are playing as white but from blacks point of view. So if your normal move is 1.e4 then from black perspective thats same as 1.e5. So you are still playing as white even though you have changed colours

MasterOfLOLs

Try to get used to being black.Smile

jos2001

keep calm and be black!

DoOrDie71

My solution is to go to  "Open challenges", click "Create challenge", click "I play as", and select white.

PapaGeorgie-OLD

quit chess

DrSpudnik

A specific opening won't be much help. Each opening has its plusses and minuses. You need to learn how to play chess in general first. Then developing an opening repetoire will be of some use and won't lead to the frustration of failure and the constant reshuffling of openings to replace the last one that didn't work.

learningthemoves

You'll probably want to choose a solid opening against 1.e4 and then one against 1.d4 since those are the two most common first moves you'll encounter when you square off against white with your black pieces.

Some players choose an opening they like to play against 1.e4 and 1.d4 and then just play the opening they use against 1.d4 against every other first move besides 1.e4/1.d4 as well and feel comfortable with that.

A lot of players like to play the King's Indian Defense against everything other than 1.e4.

So if it's 1.d4, they'll play KID, if it's 1.c4, they'll play KID, 1.Nf3, they'll play KID and you get the idea.

The reason they choose that one is because it is pretty versatile compared with some other alternatives according to some of the conventional wisdom shared by stronger players.

Eventually as you get more experience with the two openings, (what you like to play against 1.e4 and KID against everything else if you find you like that idea) you can study more detailed responses against specific openings.

If you like to mix things up tactically as well as enjoy using strategy and positional play, you might see how you like learning the Siclian Defense against 1.e4. It's pretty popular and gives black some of the highest chances to play for a win compared with safer more drawish openings used as more "solid" alternatives.

Like DrSpudnik says though, "a specific opening won't be much help" until you get more comfortable with chess in general.

Some ways to do that are training tactics by solving tactics training problems on a regular basis, studying the games of masters who win using the opening you like with the black pieces to become familiar with the most common ideas, plans and strategies they use and making use of "Chess Mentor" here.

I remember getting frustrated with the black pieces against some particular lines and looking up solutions for facing those taught by grandmasters on video trainings to help develop some weapons I could use the next time I encountered those lines.

You should feel encouraged because you've identified an area you'd like to improve and came to the right place to learn to improve. This site is loaded with resources to help if you're willing to put in study time.

Eventually, once you feel more confident with the black pieces, you'll enjoy those games just as much and some even more than with the white pieces. It's a lot of fun when that happens, so stick with it!

rudscoe

i prefer to play caro-kann. i find that if this opening for black is executed  properly , can equalize whites inherent advantage and actually become a very sucessful outcome

blunderking2

Read Larry Kaufman's excellent opening book, "The Chess Advantage in Black & White." If you don't like d4 as White, you'll have to get the old edition, which recommended e4 as White's base opening.

Larry's idea is trim your openings to very solid lines. This give you max benefit from minimum opening study.

finn416

Dutch against d4.

alain978

Buy a chess set with red and green pieces! So you won't play black anymore...

MasterOfLOLs

lol