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Any good weapons against the french?
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In general, the idea with opening prep is that some systems, while more solid, force you down a very narrow amount of specific lines; otherwise, there have been tested openings which can give your opponent an advantage. However, Opening prep can give you important moves in those positions which will test your opponent without being too dubious for your prospects.
In other, more open systems, opening prep is necessary to know what lines will work and what lines will not. If you try to play the King's Gambit, you need to know the best responses to keep the pressure on and not conceed too much advantage to black to recover.
So in general, opening prep is crucial in both open and closed games to best test your opponent.
That's how I view it as a measly 1500, anyways.
Jun 1, 2023
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#44
Irongine wrote:
I prefer the wing gambit idea
Sacrifice your b and sometimes your a pawn for a strong pawn structure.
Something that looks like this
Black gets an excellent game if he knows the theory of Korchnoi's Wedge. Don't take on b4, play 4...d4! instead.
Jun 1, 2023
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#45
oh, patzers like magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, ding liren, ian nepomniachtchi and others are depending on their crutches too much, playing for purely fun, using a bad habit, and have lessened potential
the great player @8thMarch2023 can teach them how to get rid of their bad habits
Studying openings helps you save time at the start of the game and you feel familiar with the positions you get and the middle games you play. It also gives you plenty of useful ideas that are not only relevant in opening play. It improves your chess.
Ilampozhil25 wrote:
oh, patzers like magnus carlsen, hikaru nakamura, ding liren, ian nepomniachtchi and others are depending on their crutches too much, playing for purely fun, using a bad habit, and have lessened potential
the great player @8thMarch2023 can teach them how to get rid of their bad habits
Yes, that’s 100% the case. It’s a bad habit that has to be unlearned.
Ok, step 1: Get a bunch of baguettes and wine.
Step 2: Bunch it up near a tiny space.
Step 3: Set up traps around this bunch- say, a wire makes a cage fall around you.
Step 4: Wait.
Jun 1, 2023
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#49
The best weapon against the French is classical mainlines. That is, either 3.Nc3 or 3.e5. There is no reason to fear the French.
Jun 1, 2023
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#50
blueemu wrote:
PotatoesAndChess wrote:
What I have been playing is a king's indian attack and making it a structure like a grand prix attack in the sicilian
3. Nc3 is a lemon. Black should answer dxe4 (although Nf6 and Bb4 are both good alternatives).
You should play 3. Nd2 instead, preventing an exchange of Queens.
3.Nd2 is rooted in fear.
Ziryab wrote:
blueemu wrote:
PotatoesAndChess wrote:
What I have been playing is a king's indian attack and making it a structure like a grand prix attack in the sicilian
3. Nc3 is a lemon. Black should answer dxe4 (although Nf6 and Bb4 are both good alternatives).
You should play 3. Nd2 instead, preventing an exchange of Queens.
3.Nd2 is rooted in fear.
A solid alternative nonetheless
Jun 1, 2023
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#52
Ziryab wrote:
blueemu wrote:
PotatoesAndChess wrote:
What I have been playing is a king's indian attack and making it a structure like a grand prix attack in the sicilian
3. Nc3 is a lemon. Black should answer dxe4 (although Nf6 and Bb4 are both good alternatives).
You should play 3. Nd2 instead, preventing an exchange of Queens.
3.Nd2 is rooted in fear.
If the Knight was rooted in fear, he wouldn't be able to move!
Jun 1, 2023
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#54
Ilampozhil25 wrote:
(diagram with 3. Nd2)
Yes, exactly. 3. Nc3 is inaccurate, because after 3. ... dxe4 White must either recapture with the d-Pawn and allow an exchange of Queens; or recapture with the Knight in which case he no longer has a Pawn center.
The proper move is 3. Nd2, allowing White to answer a possible dxe4 with dxe4, maintaining his Pawn center WITHOUT conceding an exchange of Queens.
Ziryab wrote:
The best weapon against the French is classical mainlines. That is, either 3.Nc3 or 3.e5. There is no reason to fear the French.
Yup..OTB is black plays e6, its game over.
But there are those French players that drop the 100% win rate...but 65% is easily obtainable.
Black had the 2nd worst mainline defense OTB...so if white is having a hard time, should be hopeful in finding a solution. Anything pretty much wins.
Jun 1, 2023
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#56
so black is objectively lost huh...
theres a 8000 post long thing about this topic
Jun 1, 2023
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#57
8thMarch2023 wrote:
I enjoy playing 1.e6 as black, but It is to give white an uncomfortable game and black a comfortable one.
Really black should always lose in chess if both sides play well enough.
As soon as you start playing from prep, or education you've already fudged up.
And if white tries to use learned theory, instead of their own understanding, a good player who chooses 1.e6 is likely to smash them
yeah except no human "plays well enough"
also no? you can memorize the mainlines, use them and then end up using your understanding in the middlegame
Jun 1, 2023
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#58
with all the people who have contributed to the development of chess you advocate to just throw it out?
i genuenly think that there are people that are trying not to have fun in chess, these people play the london or 4 knights agianst everything that exists, i dont understand the mindset of trying to bore you and your oppoment out