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What do you play against Black's various first moves?


  • 3 years ago · Quote · #1

    inject_the_venom

    The list:

    e5

    d5

    c5

    c6

    e6

    g6

    b6

    Nf6

    d6

    f5

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #2

    charlierock

    This is nice,I like the name too.

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #3

    rednblack

    inject_the_venom wrote:

    The list:

    e5, g3

    d5, cxd5

    c5, g3

    c6, g3 (I would guess.  Never come across this in a game)

    e6, g3

    g6, g3

    b6, Nc3

    Nf6, g3

    d6, g3

    f5, g3


    In short, I play Kosten's system pretty exclusively

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #4

    ericmittens

    Yea I'm a big kosten guy myself, although against the king's indian I transpose into the mainline fiancetto system. I played kosten's suggestions in tournaments for a long time and my results were "ok" by not great. Since switching to the mainline KID I've had much better results. I dont think white gets much of anything in the KID unless he plays d4.

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #5

    rednblack

    I think doing some reading on the KID would be good for me.  I've heard similar things from other people, but I haven't done any homework.

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #6

    ericmittens

    Books on the fiancetto king's indian are hard to find as its not one of the more popular systems. The best single instructional book on the variation is "the fiancetto king's indian" by Colin McNab. It's very good but theoretically out of date. A very recent, up to date, theoretical (but not instructional) look at the variation is "King's Indian and Grunfeld: Fiancetto Lines" by Lasha Janjgava.

    http://www.amazon.com/Fianchetto-Kings-Indian-Colin-McNab/dp/1879479400

    http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Indian-Grunfeld-Fianchetto-Lines/dp/1901983749

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #7

    ericmittens

    Oh and for you Kosten guys I would also recommend buying a seperate book on the catalan. Kosten's coverage is VERY scant and the catalan is a very theoretical opening. I personally picked "Winning with the Catalan" by Angus Dunnington but there are a couple of good books on it.

  • 3 years ago · Quote · #8

    rednblack

    thanks for the info, ericmittens.  I've ended up in the Catalan a few times without knowing it until I put my game through chess.com's analysis.  I could use more information for sure.


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