And for context, this is just for my black playstyle. as white I refuse to play anything solid (I play King’s gambit, Reti gambit, Scotch Game, Danish Gambit, Vienna Gambit, etc)
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yen_seua wrote:
Hello, I was wondering If anyone could provide me with opinion and insight on what to do for my openings as black
I am kind of confident in my opening knowledge, but it is my opening repertoire I doubt
I play (In order of usage and preference) the French Defense, Latvian Gambit, Modern Defense Pterodactyl, Benko Gambit, and Benoni Defense.
I understand at my level I should be sticking to e5 and maybe dabbling in the Scandinavian but I picked up the french at around 500 elo. and although chess.com likes to glaze like crazy on analysis, one of my tournament wins that i played the french on I had 2 brilliant moves and played at a 1950 rating
This is my first time ever playing OTB in my life, and I am currently 8th board for my school team. As of today I have played 13 rounds in total, 2 tournaments and 6 scrimmages against other schools
For my first tournament I played 7th board, and I went 3/4. For my second tournament I played 8th board, and went 2.5/3 (didn’t play a 4th round due to switching out for the other 8th board who is worse in general but has seniority)
And for scrimmages against other schools I am 4 wins and 2 losses
I may have a low elo (almost 1100 i think) but I have enough opening knowledge and study habits to beat opponents much higher than me, such as my first ever tournament win being on 7th board, It was me (920 elo at the time) against my opponent (1337 elo) having a completely one sided victory with the advanced french.
Should I drop some openings for more viable openings? I do not mind, but slower, solid, or symmetrical openings (besides the French) are really boring for me.
Out of the openings you list, all but the French are garbage. You are best off playing the French, Caro-Kann, 1...e5 (2...Nc6 or Petroff), or a more legitimate line of the Sicilian (Najdorf, Dragon, Taimanov, Sveshnikov, etc.) Latvian? Modern? Benoni? Garbage!
Against d4, depending on your style of play, QGD, Slav, QGA, Nimzo/Bogo/Queens Indian, Kings Indian, Semi-Slav, Grunfeld, or one of the e6 Dutch lines.
Get rid of the trash and learn legitimate openings and you wouldn't have the problems you are having. Only the French of what you list is legitimate.
ThrillerFan wrote:
yen_seua wrote:
Hello, I was wondering If anyone could provide me with opinion and insight on what to do for my openings as black
I am kind of confident in my opening knowledge, but it is my opening repertoire I doubt
I play (In order of usage and preference) the French Defense, Latvian Gambit, Modern Defense Pterodactyl, Benko Gambit, and Benoni Defense.
I understand at my level I should be sticking to e5 and maybe dabbling in the Scandinavian but I picked up the french at around 500 elo. and although chess.com likes to glaze like crazy on analysis, one of my tournament wins that i played the french on I had 2 brilliant moves and played at a 1950 rating
This is my first time ever playing OTB in my life, and I am currently 8th board for my school team. As of today I have played 13 rounds in total, 2 tournaments and 6 scrimmages against other schools
For my first tournament I played 7th board, and I went 3/4. For my second tournament I played 8th board, and went (didn’t play a 4th round due to switching out for the other 8th board who is worse in general but has seniority)
And for scrimmages against other schools I am 4 wins and 2 losses
I may have a low elo (almost 1100 i think) but I have enough opening knowledge and study habits to beat opponents much higher than me, such as my first ever tournament win being on 7th board, It was me (920 elo at the time) against my opponent (1337 elo) having a completely one sided victory with the advanced french.
Should I drop some openings for more viable openings? I do not mind, but slower, solid, or symmetrical openings (besides the French) are really boring for me.
Out of the openings you list, all but the French are garbage. You are best off playing the French, Caro-Kann, 1...e5 (2...Nc6 or Petroff), or a more legitimate line of the Sicilian (Najdorf, Dragon, Taimanov, Sveshnikov, etc.) Latvian? Modern? Benoni? Garbage!
Against d4, depending on your style of play, QGD, Slav, QGA, Nimzo/Bogo/Queens Indian, Kings Indian, Semi-Slav, Grunfeld, or one of the e6 Dutch lines.
Get rid of the trash and learn legitimate openings and you wouldn't have the problems you are having. Only the French of what you list is legitimate.
Thank you, but could you sort of explain a tiny bit on how I should play those openings? I learned how to play the french by playing an opening I don't know and in the process losing 600 elo, I've just gotten it all back so I kind of don't want to go through that again.
The KID and Caro seem the most appealing to me, and I used to be a dutch player so I may try to learn those. But would it be fine if I still sometimes played my one trick pony openings? I've been able to get wins against way higher opponents because they fall for tactics and lines that I know in the opening and they dont.
Hello, I was wondering If anyone could provide me with opinion and insight on what to do for my openings as black
I am kind of confident in my opening knowledge, but it is my opening repertoire I doubt
I play (In order of usage and preference) the French Defense, Latvian Gambit, Modern Defense Pterodactyl, Benko Gambit, and Benoni Defense.
I understand at my level I should be sticking to e5 and maybe dabbling in the Scandinavian but I picked up the french at around 500 elo. and although chess.com likes to glaze like crazy on analysis, one of my tournament wins that i played the french on I had 2 brilliant moves and played at a 1950 rating
This is my first time ever playing OTB in my life, and I am currently 8th board for my school team. As of today I have played 13 rounds in total, 2 tournaments and 6 scrimmages against other schools
For my first tournament I played 7th board, and I went 3/4. For my second tournament I played 8th board, and went 2.5/3 (didn’t play a 4th round due to switching out for the other 8th board who is worse in general but has seniority)
And for scrimmages against other schools I am 4 wins and 2 losses
I may have a low elo (almost 1100 i think) but I have enough opening knowledge and study habits to beat opponents much higher than me, such as my first ever tournament win being on 7th board, It was me (920 elo at the time) against my opponent (1337 elo) having a completely one sided victory with the advanced french.
Should I drop some openings for more viable openings? I do not mind, but slower, solid, or symmetrical openings (besides the French) are really boring for me.