Best response to 1...e4.
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I play c4 followed by d3!
Apr 14, 2008
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#22
Carnap wrote: Doesn't anyone ever stick with the Ruy Lopez anymore?
apparently not.
Apr 14, 2008
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#23
- If you want to improve your overall level in chess, pick 1...e5 (and 2...Nc6 in answer to 2.Nf3)
- If you want to score more points against other players under 1500 elo and learn to fight, pick the Sicilian (but you still have to choose one Sicilian variation)
- If you want to develop your own ideas and play according to your own principles, play 1...Nf6
If you're still young and plan to play chess for a long time, my advice would be to start with 1...e5
You don't need to know alot of theory to play the Sicilian, just to play it well against someone else who knows the lines. That being said, if you learn the first 4 moves of the sicilian it equalizes alot faster than 1...e5, and without cramping your position at all. One major drawback is that you will castle kingside most of the time, so it's a little predictable.
Against 1. e4, I would play 1...a5 or 1...a6. It requires expertise and may look like a joke at first glance, but these defenses (Corn Stalk/Ware and St. George's) actually work when used properly.
I'm thinking that practicing and using principles of good development is the most important thing here. e5 is the best for beginners by far.
why not consider 1...d5!
Apr 14, 2008
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#28
rgrizzard wrote: why not consider 1...d5!
Everything has its good and bad points. If I'm in a mood to take the bit in my teeth I love to confuse those who want a Scandinavian with the Blackmar-Diemer. We can argue the soundness of the BDG but the truth is some who, OTB, plays 1. e4 d5 is looking to limt opening variations and prep and is at least caught off guard if not shocked when White answers 2. d4!?
CarlMI> is at least caught off guard if not shocked when White answers 2. d4!?
True, but 2.d4?! seems like an odd choice to me at the club level. If White's spent time learning the BDG then 1.d4 is more logical since it increases his/her chances of playing it. If White's prepared the BDG specifically as a counter to the Scandinavian then the problem is that Black has several reasonable defenses so if they both spend the same amount of time on opening study Black will come out ahead... and if White had simply invested that opening study on learning a mainline Scandy he/she would have a small edge. I think I would only be worried about the BDG as a reply to the Scandinavian if I believed my opponent had studied my repertoire--then it would be scary.
Apr 14, 2008
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#30
Club level is the best place for BDG. I looked over the BDG for the fun of it, but I think you are a little off on estimates of time requirements. If White allows the Scand, he has to prepare for Nf6 or Qxd5, then there are several subsets within each of those divisions. So preparing the BDG in response to the Scand is not much more than preparing for ML Scand and I'm more likely to have a knowledge edge on Black. 1. d4 does lead more naturally to the BDG but anyone who plays 1.d4 d5 has to have a least a passing acquaintanceship with the BDG. When I'm playing 1. e4 I have to have something for 1....d5 and the BDG fits into an agressive, attacking repatoire.
I'm thinking starting off your chess career playing an unsound opening isn't the best way to go.
duskwalker wrote:
Against 1. e4, I would play 1...a5 or 1...a6. It requires expertise and may look like a joke at first glance, but these defenses (Corn Stalk/Ware and St. George's) actually work when used properly.
These are crap defences.
Apr 14, 2008
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#33
ericmittens wrote: I'm thinking starting off your chess career playing an unsound opening isn't the best way to go.
Quite true but the BDG is not unsound. It is a gambit with all that entails. Truthfully, at club level how often do you get past 5-8 moves before someone falls out of the book?
reply with 1)...c6. best for black. the caro cann if played properly can force defeat black
e4 scares me so much I usually just resign.
Feb 9, 2013
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#37
learning a lot of chess variations and defense will makes you confused in countering your opponents game plan.what about those great chess player long years before they played well without learning diferrent kind of chess variation they just defend on their own skills and technique and later on the new generation call it variation.yes!!it is good to know this all kinds of chess variation and defense..but still it depends how smart you are in playing and handling the games...
Apr 17, 2024
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#38
the french and the caro kann are both great choices as well now if u wanna play 1.e5 and dont wanna go into nf3 nc6 positions u can play the petrov with nf6 and learn the 4 knights and the exchange petrov
pvmike wrote:
I would play e5, because you need to know alot more theory to play the Sicilian, and The Alekhine Defense gives up control of the center right away, you need to learn how to play in the center before you give up control of it.
Depending on rating; some opponents don't even respond to the Alekhine in any "common" fashion. In my experience I rarely end up with the "main line".
