Best way to play against Glek system

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koravi

Hello dear friends

 

I just wanted to ask which is the best way to play against glek system..Its quite a rare opening...So there are two lines one line is with Bc5 and the other is with d5...Which line according to you is better for Black or is there any other system according to you that will bring more better postion for Black?

moonnie

The Glek variation of the 4 knights is not an opening where white plays for direct advantage but plays for a playable position without long and forced lines. It is more kind of a best player wins setup. As a result there are many setups for black that equalize or almost equalize. Do note that white made no real errors so expecting to get an advantage with black against this setup is not realistic. 

I play a reversed belgrade gambit but there is nothing wrong with other positions. 

Black plays the Belgrade gambit a tempo down but white is not going to have much fun of his extra tempo (g3) because it just weakens the d1-h5 diagonal and the best setup against the belgrade (Be7) is not as much fun after g3