Help: My repertoire - Chess Forums

VLaurenT

Mar 22, 2009

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#1

It looks fine and consistent

draco_alpine

Mar 22, 2009

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#2

ruzomberok wrote:

Hello!

I have a big tournament at the end at June and I need some help of you guys. Ive planned to start building a new opening repertoire as fast as possible and then spend the rest studying endgames. Since I'm searching for slow, safe openings, I want to give you my preliminary repertoire and you can come with improvements. AND , more improvements, I wanna get tips how to remember the openings.

I really want to help you know nice intro :)

White ( 1.d4)

Fianchetto Kings Indian ( bit slow but reasonable)

Fianchetto Grünfeld ( seems consitent)

Rubinstein Nimzo-Indian ( samisch is worth a look as it is very simple)

Carlsbad Queens Gambit ( exchange ? if so very good)

Anti-Meran Semi-Slav ( I love the shablov attack and am not sure what the anti meran is)

You dont seem to have a benoni, benko line or a slav line.

You might want to do some reasearch on QGA

Black

Budapest Gambit ( Very aggressive ?!)

Tartakower Queens Gambit ( Very good and solid)

Center Counter Defence (3...Qd6) ( French Alkehiline and caro kann i prefer over this but i lack experiance)

Symmetrical English ( hedgehog formation is very solid)

It looks really good all the best of luck

ReyiTaknev

Mar 22, 2009

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#3

Play the Trompowski attack against Nf6. Read 2plus2is5's post on the Trompowski attack, I found that helpful. The Trompowski attack is 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5!? which leads to interesting positions

BigTy

Mar 22, 2009

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#4

The Budapest gambit looks out of place with the rest of your repertoire. It seems like you are looking for a strategic game more than a tactical one and although I don't know much about the budapest, I know it can get pretty sharp.

You should really look into a response to the benoni, benko and slav,which has already been mentioned. I play the modern benoni myself and have a few ideas for you. The fianchetto variation of the modern benoni would fit well with your repertoire because you play the fianchetto against the king's indian, which can very easily transpose to the modern benoni. It isn't whites best try though and if you want to play for an edge you should look into the modern mainline or the flick knife attack, both will require some study though, especially the flick knife attack which is pretty sharp. I hope this helps...

pvmike

Mar 22, 2009

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#5

I like everything except the budapest and center-counter, If you like and understand the kings indian attack why not the the KID and pirc as black.

antonisf

Mar 22, 2009

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#6

Good repertoire, but like draco_alpine pointed out there are some gaps in your plan. Benoni, QGA and slav are very popular with tournament players so you should put them on top of your list. scandinavian (or Center-Counter as you call it) is not very impressive. Bent Larssen summed it up nicely when he said, "Scandinavian is a nice variation of Caro-Cann". In other words play it if you like Caro Cann.

Budapest again like BigTy said looks out of place. Stick with Tartakower and one more backup defence.

Also, devote time to studying little side lines and weird defences Like Chigorin, Keres, Dutch (though the Dutch is by no means side line) and even weirder things like 1 d2-d4 c7-c5. They seem to be popular in tournaments.

Good luck