i play chess like mikhail tal what are good openings for me?

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SaintGermain32105

Right

KholmovDM

Chad0, getting back to the original point of ze thread: 

I remember I took a similar quiz not too long after I started playing - it said that I had the same 'chess personality' as Fischer (???). Naturally I kind of took this with a grain of salt.  As I kept learning the basics and finding out about the basic principles, and the more I played, the more I found out about my actual style of play and what works for me. Everyone's chess personality is different, and you can't just throw a beginning at someone and say 'you have to play this opening because you have an aggressive style'.  Chess just doesn't work like that. Human beings need to develop on their own and figure out what works for them.

I reccommend getting beginners advice from people who know what they're talking about, which is what I did/am still doing both here, at chess clubs in my city, from friends, etc. The more you make mistakes, the more potential you have to improve. 

Best of luck! 

CamelsOfYaqoob
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enotSgnilloR

If you played like Tal, you would not ask such a pedantic question.

CamelsOfYaqoob

ThrillerFan wrote:

Sounds like I missed a good one.  Donald Trump must be in the house!

Can t see him.

CamelsOfYaqoob

Vote for Trump Charlotte.

SmyslovFan
enotSgnilloR wrote:

If you played like Tal, you would not ask such a pedantic question.

llorTgnilloR, the OP took a chess personality test which stated he plays like Tal. He never claimed to play as well as Tal. 

It's fantastic that chess players try to emulate the great players! They should not be castigated for saying they play like their favorite players.

eastyz

Well said SmyslovFan.  There is too much pooh poohing on this website.  As to Tal, I came across an interesting article written in one of the contemporary soviet chess magazines.  It said that Tal is an example of how somebody with little talent can work hard at this game and improve.  Therefore there is hope yet for OP.

Young_Kasparov1589

White-Follow the books of Negi and for Ruy lopez use Caruana's Navigating the Ruy

Black-Use Gm rep Modern benoni by Marian Petrov 

ThrillerFan

If the OP is Mikhail Tal, then I'm Wolfgang Uhlmann.

 

Man, I thought I turned 45 a couple of months ago.  Maybe I really did turn 85!  That may be why I am starting to see aches and pains more frequently!

SmyslovFan

Tal WAS +2700, and was very difficult to beat in the 1970s. Tal would hold his own against other players rated around 2700. But nobody from that era played the likes of Kasparov or Carlsen, players who live in the +2800 stratosphere.

eastyz
SmyslovFan wrote:

Tal WAS +2700, and was very difficult to beat in the 1970s. Tal would hold his own against other players rated around 2700. But nobody from that era played the likes of Kasparov or Carlsen, players who live in the +2800 stratosphere.

Maybe true.  Nobody in that era had computers to help them to see if they could hold their own against the likes of Kasparov and Carslen.  Apparently Kasparov was ahead of his time in the sense that he used (or his team used) computers for research before others decided to use them.  He had the money to put into the research.

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chad0 wrote:

ok so i think i play in the style as mikhail tal and would like to know what are some good openings for me?

hmmm

MorphysMayhem
Tal would not be asking for advice. He would be demonstrating to all of us how it is done- while smoking a cig, and possibly imbibing in a little alcoholic libation.
Young_Kasparov1589

White - Use all the mainlines with 1.e4[Negi's book would be useful] and for ruylopez  use Easy guide to Ruy lopez

Black- There is a problem that in most of the books of Tal's games it maximumly shows KID but starts with Benoni. You can use both of it the decision is yours. And against 1.e4 i prefer the Najdorf Sicilian and use the book Play the Najdorf : Scheveningen Style by John Emms. Although Tal always used the classical Najdorf[lines with ...e5] but nowadays the Scheveningen is usually the best way to deal against all setups for white 

Surely Tal will get up from his grave and will vommit

fabelhaft

”Tal WAS +2700, and was very difficult to beat in the 1970s. Tal would hold his own against other players rated around 2700. But nobody from that era played the likes of Kasparov”

Well, Tal did play Kasparov quite a bit :-) But I think his often praised unbeaten streak in the 70s, impressive as it was, maybe has been overestimated. He didn’t play any opponent ranked in the top ten, and many of the games were short draws. 

Jenium

Probably the same openings as Tal. If you are aware of his style you surely have examined his openings too.

SmyslovFan

@Fabelhaft, Kasparov didn't start playing internationally until 1979. He did play Tal twice in the USSR championships in 1978 and 1979 (both short draws), but I stand by my statement that nobody during the time of Tal's unbeaten streak  and his time above 2700 FIDE played the likes of Kasparov. Fischer had retired and Kasparov was still in the future. 

To be even more precise, from 1973 to about 1985, there was nobody close to 2800 strength. Kasparov broke the 2800 barrier in 1990. Karpov topped the rating list at 2705 in January 1979.

A-mateur
asu01 a écrit :

The OP of this thread sure is arrogant!

I think he meant "I like playing like Mikhail Tal". IHMO he simply expressed himself in a very bad way. 

SmyslovFan

Chess is a great sport! We have many great players that we can model our play after. There is absolutely nothing wrong with saying you play like this or that great player. We all know how well those greats played and we can see by the rating how successfully we emulate our heroes. 

But there's absolutely nothing wrong with saying we play like our heroes. 

I played football (soccer) like my hero, John Barnes. I wasn't nearly as good as he was, but I loved to play the wing the way he did. Trent Alexander Arnold now does a similar job.