Building my Solid Opening Repertoire (Fischer's)

I have no problem wth God. But I do have a problem with you.

Feel powerful? I didn't want someone to be misinformed about you. From the looks of it, it looked like he actually wanted to get better at chess.

Advice to the public:

If you want to improve, stay away from the forums. There are lots of great resources for improving on the internet already, don't let the forums hold you back.

I myself might end up leaving the forums completely soon.

In general, the forums are not the best way to get chess information. There are many people who mess around, give fake information for chess, and often a general lack of activity in the actual threads about chess (While the off topic might thrive) compared to the real ones. If you do get some activity, it might be hard to tell the difference between some bad advice that sounds fancy and actual good advice.

Well... I guess God does have problem with that idiot as well, but this is his main fault: He is way too forgiving.

I don't want to deal with an argument with StupidGM in this forum right now, so untracking...

The whole reason @StupidGM has an account here is that he would get laughed out of the local chess club if he said these things to anyone's face.

What a hypocrite.

@blueemu Interesting. Basically King's Indian Defense, but with 2 moves ahead. I will definitely look into this. Do Caro-kann players expect such an opening?

@MayCaesar Playing both sides seems painful, yet very beneficial. That's a great idea - I play sicillian both sides, and that made me a good sicillian player

Does the Bird transpose to any sort of "familiar" opening? Or is it unique?

@btl1230 It kind of feels too complicated, like a whole new setup. The reverse KID seems more approachable, especially that I'm more familiar with it as black

@MickinMD I'm not looking for cheesy openings that K.O after the 5th move, nor the "win more games" scenario. Simply the primary opening theories and the plus/minus and the plans to them.

I understand trying to strive for a familiar position is bad practice, but I think it gives me a solid understanding of certain patterns in the position.

Very few players can use Fischer's opening repertoire with success, you have to be a Kasparov. Fischer line against the Najdorf is no good any more 6.Bc4, when he use it he was quite successful.

I agree. Fischer had difficult time with Caro-Kann ( 1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 white get no opening advantage against a good players.) One thing I can say about Fischer on black side of Sicilian, KID and Grunfeld; is Fischer was a virtuoso in these defenses. Maybe this is why a lot players want to play the Sicilian or King's Indian defense because of Fischer's success with these defenses but without good tactics and attacking abilities they will fail to be successful.  

It seems to me you should adopt a grandmaster repertoire (even one that's forty years out of date) if you want to be a grandmaster. And that means putting in a grandmaster level of work. If you have no such ambitions, go for simpler openings that will just get you into the middlegame, with some attacking chances if you know them better than your opponent. When I took up chess again about ten years ago, I was greatly helped by an article by Nigel Davies on openings for the club player: he recommended, eg, the closed Sicilian and g3 Vienna with white, and for Black the QGD and the O'Kelly Sicilian (which I played for years, with quite a lot of success).

I don't think it does, since the 1. f4 move imposes certain restrictions on black's responses not existing in other variations (there are very few openings in which white plays f4 very early) - but with this you can often play Dutch Defense with tempo, if your opponent plays accordingly.  1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 leads to a pretty Dutch-like structure.

Look up Zaphys blog on openings

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"... A typical way of choosing an opening repertoire is to copy the openings used by a player one admires. ... However, what is good at world-championship level is not always the best choice at lower levels of play, and it is often a good idea to choose a 'model' who is nearer your own playing strength. ..." - FM Steve Giddins (2008)

 I will politely disagree with you; Fischer was king when it came to the opening preparation. It amaze me that Bobby could out prepare even the Russian, he completely outplay Botvinnik in their and Fischer even found holes Botvinnik and team best Russian GMs in their opening preparation against Bobby's beloved Grunfeld; against Tal, Fischer outplay Tal in opening. If Bobby played Karpov in 1975 match, Fischer would of destroyed Karpov. Fischer an expert in Ruy Lopez and facing Fischer on the white of Ruy Lopez meant you will lose to Fischer. Fischer played like Alekhnie, all the games were exciting and they weren't dull like boring Carlsen.

http://bobbyfischer.net/repertoire.html

This will be of great interest to anyone wanting to emulate Robert

 Thanks!

The games are not annotated, and it really doesn't say the plans of the positions

     This implies you spent your entire waking moments studying Fischers openings.   No surprise you struggled to rate over 2000 uscf

@ StupidGM, I  don't agree with you but I can prove my points. Fischer's opening are meant to beat opponents not draw, where Carlsen passive, lame and dull opening are only good for a draw. Magnus could not beat Karjakin in their first and tied match and had to go rapid time control, because Carlsen's opening and play is so passive and could not beat a 2700 player in their match; if this was Fischer, it would been a crush.  

Carlsen One Game Away From Losing Number One Spot  

This said it all, Carlsen is not world champion caliber, look at his hands outward and his head tilt resign to his fate and going to  second place. It all come to determination and fighting spirit, Magnus has none. Fischer was a fighter and he put fear in his opponent, Bobby number one goal was to crush his opponents. No one fear Carlsen, his opening doesn't instill no fear, not like Fischer's aggressive  opening. And there is nothing wrong with 7.a4 in French Winawer, it still gives white an advantage.

lol