📚 Which opening is the best suited for tricky style of play?

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ESP-918

Tricky:

There is something about the way a tricky player plays that's very disconcerting. Repeatedly they will play moves that you didn't even consider and that just flat out look weird, to the extent that it may become very confusing for you. They never give up, and are constantly looking for ways to trap and attack you. These types of players are usually very entertaining because of their resourceful and imaginative style. They can be differentiated from calculating and attacking players mainly by the unorthodox nature of their play.

Examples - GM Alex Shabalov, Julian Hodgson, GM Pavel Blatny, IM Yuri Lapshun

ilikewindmills
Queens Gambit is a powerful opening. Use wisely.
ESP-918

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Henson_Chess

the Queen's Gambit is tricky if you're opponent doesnt know what he's doing.

for black, replying d4 with the Benoni or the King'd Indian is sort of tricky.

 

BlackLionOrangutnKid

Urusov or the  fun and crazy Oragutan for White. 

pdela
BlackLionOrangutnKid wrote:

Urusov for White.  The fun and crazy Oragutan for Black. 

those are openings?

 

The Pig with white, the sound Kangaroo with Black

alexpatas

Volga Gambit and Budapest Gambit for example. I think Queen Gambit is pretty much simple. King Indian can be tricky but only in some variations

ThrillerFan
pdela wrote:
BlackLionOrangutnKid wrote:

Urusov for White.  The fun and crazy Oragutan for Black. 

those are openings?

 

The Pig with white, the sound Kangaroo with Black

 

They are openings, but he clearly doesn't know them as Black can't force the Orangutan.  The Orangutan is 1.b4, also referred to as the Polish Opening or Sokolsky's Opening.

 

Closest thing you have as Black is against 1.d4, the response 1...b5 is the Polish Defense.

 

That said, I already posted in the Spammer's first thread of this, which he clearly decided to spam it a second time, and clearly he should take up a different game.

 

As mentioned there - go in the center on move 1 when you are X, and go in the center if available move one as O and if not go in any of the four corners!

TheAuthority

i like tricky players and crafty players. Oh yes. 

ESP-918

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slowdeath22

I don't know, benko maybe? Owen? There are a lot of tricky openings you can play as white, but a lot of them are unsound if your opponent plays properly. Also, that description of tricky players you gave doesn't look very convincing, as there will not be a good 'weird' move all the time for a tricky player to play and unless the 'tricky player' is just a lot better than you at building plans, recognising tactics and seeing positional ideas, you are not to remain confused about his moves.

ESP-918

Agree to disagree, Bobby Fischer played very tricky sacrificing materials early in a game

slowdeath22

Please give me an example

ESP-918

Bishop's trap

Scorpio1388

Hungarian Opening totally unorthodox but if you have encountered it before you know to keep you're guard up especially if both bishops are eyeing down the corners of the board.

alain978

The Grob variation in sicillian defence is really tricky to play

slowdeath22

http://www.thechesswebsite.com/bobby-fischer-trap/ Are you talking about the game here? If you aren't, please give me the move orders.

blueemu

That Fischer game mentioned above was already known Russian analysis before that game was played. Fischer didn't invent that trap.

ESP-918

Maybe you are right, but he did carried it well ( the trap)

Silver_Assassin

Blackmar-Diemer Gambit