Opening Repertoire

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Avatar of Ziploxx

So I'd consider myself an early intermediate chess player. I don't play in a club, open, or do any tournaments(I'm hoping to soon). Apart from playing a good amount as a young child(1st - 3rd grade) with my school I haven't done much. What I have done is a little bit of research, and I have been playing a lot more chess the last 6 months(particulalrly the last 3 weeks). I've been studying a few opening casually, and doing more of looking at a wide variety of opening to their 4th or 5th move rather than studying detailed lines of a few openings. This is mostly because I don't play any online or at the tournament level yet, and the people I play often make obscure choices that I don't know how to properly take advantage of. I do understand a lot of key principles in chess, importance of preventing castling, pawn advancement, center control, F7, forks, pins, gambits, and how material and position are in a delicate balance. I suppose that's just a bit of back ground of my chess experience so you know how respond better(and it's my first post on these forums). Onto my main question. 

What would you consider a good repertoire of openings for both white and black to start with when getting into higher level play?

I have looked a little into Ruy Lopez(and common defenses), Kings Gambit accepted, Queens gambit accepted, Sicilian Defense, and the Danish Gambit. I think I more like the style of play that the Danish Gambit brings. It's a little obscure and it leads to an aggressive end-game style of play. So anything up that ally of "not often seen" and tactical play are what I'm looking for(I think?)

 

Also, I'm looking for some people who would be willing to play me a few times a week and discuss chess theory with. I really want to get better at this game, and I learn very quickly. 

Avatar of tigergutt

if you upgrade your membership fully you get some nice features that can help you with just that. for exampel for the moment im working with the videos on isolated pawns on this very site that goes in 10 part around 30 minuts each. its really hard but very noticable on my games. there is alot of videos on everything from openings to middlegame and endgame. but the most important is to study tactics every day to keep getting sharper and sharper.  by studying tactics alone you can beat most clubplayers

Avatar of benonidoni

If your looking at openings specifically I'd look into a book that covers a broad range of openings so you can get a feel for which ones interest you.

Avatar of hankm

Ziploxx:

From your list, it sounds like your a gambit player! : )

I would recomend looking into the Benoni defense (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5) as black against d4. It is very tactical, aggressive, and white players who play d4 (myself included) are not really used to playing against it. Moreover, you can even steer the game in a gambit direction by playing the Benko Gambit. (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5).

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