Beating Queens pawn.
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The King's Indian Defense works well.
KNOCK THE KING OVER don't worry about the pawn
I would say it very much depends on your style. How would you characterize your opening temperament?
Jul 14, 2008
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To rephrase the previous poster: What do you play against the king's pawn? What do you like to play against and what do you not like to play against?
Against Kings pawn I play C5, I like playing open games, closed games not so much.
RyanMK wrote: The King's Indian Defense works well.
What's the King's Indian Defense?
I would recommend the Queens Gambit Accepted because of Black's free and easy development. It avoids a lot of the theoretical lines and the center is controlled by pieces rather than pawns.
elwood1251 wrote: Against Kings pawn I play C5, I like playing open games, closed games not so much.
I think you could try the Benko Gambit.
I like to play the Leningrad variation of the Dutch Defense against 1. d4. This is because it is a rote set-up that you can use almost no matter what white does, and the move order usually doesn't matter much, so you don't have a lot of memorization to do. Weaker players aren't familiar with this defense, so it usually rolls over them. Strong players who are familiar with it--well, that's something else again, since it does have its flaws, often revolving around a weak e6 square. It's an opening for adventurous fighters with lots of nerve.
Play the laskers defense
It depends a good deal on "which Queen Pawn opening" you mean.
Your thread at first started out like you were talking about "The Queen Pawn Game," which is a set of openings where White plays d4 but not c4...but now it looks like you are referring to all queen-pawn openings...that's a pretty vast set of openings.
If you enjoy the kind of tactics that are in the Sicilian, you might want to give the Semi-Slav a go. Matthew Sadler has an excellent book on it.
I've never been very good at playing against the queens pawn opening, so anyone have any adivce or responses to it?