I wouldn’t lose any sleep prepping and just rely on tactics based on opening tree.com data.
You are a coin flip with the white pieces, and a slight 45% underdog against the Reti and d4; I am assuming they transpose.
If I had the white pieces and needed to play for a win , I would go with my English or Reti sideline.
Nice Sicilian Game btw.
I wouldn’t lose any sleep prepping and just rely on tactics based on opening tree.com data.
You are a coin flip with the white pieces, and a slight 45% underdog against the Reti and d4; I am assuming they transpose.
If I had the white pieces and needed to play for a win , I would go with my English or Reti sideline.
Nice Sicilian Game btw.
Just kinda want to strengthen the areas that people could target. I really appreciate the feedback! I love the Sicilian. My d4 success rate is actually really good recently.
I wouldn’t lose any sleep prepping and just rely on tactics based on opening tree.com data.
You are a coin flip with the white pieces, and a slight 45% underdog against the Reti and d4; I am assuming they transpose.
If I had the white pieces and needed to play for a win , I would go with my English or Reti sideline.
Nice Sicilian Game btw.
Just kinda want to strengthen the areas that people could target. I really appreciate the feedback! I love the Sicilian. My d4 success rate is actually really good recently.
Your balanced and well rounded based on the stats.
The only note I would make is those stats don’t decipher between speed chess and rapid. You would have to go to your chess.com Explorer and segment rapid from blitz and bullet.
I know in my case, bullet is hog wash and not a consideration for decision making but 5/5 blitz and 15/10 rapid are qualitative data because I score 80-82% accuracy in both time formats and my time out is relative low.
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"you prep with both colors since you dont know what you have yet."
++ I would not prepare at all. I just play what I am used to playing and have experience with.
"What openings are you looking at and what line would you try to exploit based on my Explorer?"
++ None at all. Just play and wait for your mistake. Even if you made some mistake in previous game, it would be foolish to expect you to repeat it.
Your scenario would never happen unless it was round 1 of an over the board tournament and I knew all of entries in advance, like if I am the 2 seed and you are the 22 seed in a section of 40.
I do not play blitz tournaments here.
Over the board, colors are not random except round 1. In round 1, if 1 gets White, then 2 gets Black, 3 gets White, 4 gets Black, etc. If 1 gets Black, then flip all colors. After that, color history, score, and rating dictate what color you get.
That said, unless I have Black against something like 1.b3 or 1.f4 or 1.g4 or 1.Nc3, it's going to be 1 of 3 openings. Either the Polish (If I have White), French (Against 1.e4 or 1.d4 e6 2.e4) or Dutch (Against 1.Nf3, 1.c4, 1.d4 e6 2.c4 f5, or 1.d4 e6 2.Nf3 f5) will occur. Only last minute prep that might occur is if I had faced you before with the same color or if I have observed many times what you specifically play, like if I know you play the Exchange with 4.c4 Against the French and I am going to have Black.
Easy, just memorize this game and play it again https://www.chess.com/game/live/43429778647
As white, probably the Reti, and as black vs. e4, the Sicilian
Meh I prefer the Reti Gambit
Okay so i have a question. You see that you are paired with me in an OTB tournament. you prep with both colors since you dont know what you have yet. What openings are you looking at and what line would you try to exploit based on my Explorer?