Torre attack
Opening up 1.d4
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I never play 1. d4 - but I think I'd do it just to bug you.
Unless I had a reason to believe that 1. c4 would bother you even more....
Anyway, I play the KID against 1. d4 and I have games wild enough to satisfy me.
Since I took up the Gruenfeld at the beginning of the year, I've won every OTB game I've played with it.
The budapest usually does not lead to sharp positions!
Gruenfeld can be pretty sharp though white can keep things quiet with maybe bf4
checkmateisnear wrote:
Gruenfeld can be pretty sharp though white can keep things quiet with maybe bf4
It's only the people who don't really play the Gruenfeld who think this. The Bf4 Gruenfeld contains some of the sharpest lines of the entire Gruenfeld.
Oct 14, 2009
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#28
Leningrad Dutch usually results in a full board for 12 or 14 moves. Then all heck breaks loose.
Albin Counter Gambit can be very dynamic and exciting.
Blumenfeld Counter Gambit really varies, although I've seen some fun, wide open games with it.
Oct 14, 2009
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#29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Defense
Recently posted a Baltic defense game I played OTB. Sharp stuff and it clearly "opens" up the board as the OP indicated.
http://blog.chess.com/Shivsky/fun-with-the-baltic
What I like is there's really very little theory available on it beyond some online notes and an ancient book by Andy Soltis...so you are sure as heck going to force your opponent to figure things out as opposed to blitzing QG moves from memory.
I don't play the bf4 variation. I go with the main line of the exchange with nc3 and Rb1. As I posted above there is a line which gives quite some troble for black.
Shivsky wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Defense
Recently posted a Baltic defense game I played OTB. Sharp stuff and it clearly "opens" up the board as the OP indicated.
http://blog.chess.com/Shivsky/fun-with-the-baltic
What I like is there's really very little theory available on it beyond some online notes and an ancient book by Andy Soltis...so you are sure as heck going to force your opponent to figure things out as opposed to blitzing QG moves from memory.
Actually, this really isn't true. I used to play the Baltic but I ditched it because too many White players played dull, sound lines against it which you can't really avoid and the positions become extremely unexciting. Almost no-one ever played 3.Qb3 against me. If White plays more quietly with 3.Nc3 and 4.Qb3, or 3.Nc3/f3 and 4.Nc3/f3, it's really rather boring indeed.
checkmateisnear wrote:
I don't play the bf4 variation. I go with the main line of the exchange with nc3 and Rb1. As I posted above there is a line which gives quite some troble for black.
Care to elaborate? :)
I personally think you should be more scared of 1.nf3!(not an exclamation mark indicating strength just the punctuation mark; i.e. the excamation mark She won a million dollars!) There's an anti gruenfeld line.
White can also avoid the gruenfeld and force a KID if black plays d5 then c4 the reti opening is just as "boring" as d4. The benko gambit is also ruled out as is the benoni because white can always choose the english. He loses the option to play the nge2 variation of the exchange but then white has the cxd5 with bf4 which is also high scoring and also the classical variation with bg5. And to marvel(you dont mind that I call you that right?)
Oh, and check out the benko gambit played in the benoni defense.