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Unless the only replies that you are interested in are ones like the above you need to put much more effort into your request.
What do you play now?
Which one of your current defences do you want to replace?
What don't you like about your current defence?
What type of defence are you looking for?
Etc...
Anyway, how horrendous is your current opening that it isn't good enough for your current level? I would say that the Englund and Latvian gambits are both fine for you to play.
Check out the Pirc, if you feel comfortable with a closed, strategic style game. Alot of players are heavy on tactical, open attack games, and you'll leave them scratching their head on almost any white opening.
Against e4 I always like to play the French. It has sharp lines and is great fun to play.
Against d4 I like to play the dzindzi indian. It takes your opponent off book real quick and often into unknown territory!
grass-hopper wrote:
Against d4 I like to play the dzindzi indian. It takes your opponent off book real quick and often into unknown territory!
Why would anybody play 2.c4?
Actually it seems like benoni and modern. Well , i suggest the scandinabian against e4 and d5 against d4.
MonkeyingAround wrote:
grass-hopper wrote:
Against d4 I like to play the dzindzi indian. It takes your opponent off book real quick and often into unknown territory!
Why would anybody play 2.c4?
This line is named after the grandmaster and two-time US Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili, who pioneered the defence in the 1980s. It looks like a strange cocktail of the Benoni, Dutch and Nimzo-Indian.
Black's decision to capture on c3 unbalances the position in a way he couldn't hope to do otherwise, and for this reason the Dzindzi-Indian is an effective line to play as Black if you are looking to win. One practical advantage from Black's point of view is that quiet responses by White tend to be at best unchallenging and sometime much worse than that, so the Dzindzi-Indian can be a successful choice against many players.
grass-hopper wrote:
MonkeyingAround wrote:
grass-hopper wrote:
Against d4 I like to play the dzindzi indian. It takes your opponent off book real quick and often into unknown territory!
Why would anybody play 2.c4?
This line is named after the grandmaster and two-time US Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili, who pioneered the defence in the 1980s. It looks like a strange cocktail of the Benoni, Dutch and Nimzo-Indian.
Black's decision to capture on c3 unbalances the position in a way he couldn't hope to do otherwise, and for this reason the Dzindzi-Indian is an effective line to play as Black if you are looking to win. One practical advantage from Black's point of view is that quiet responses by White tend to be at best unchallenging and sometime much worse than that, so the Dzindzi-Indian can be a successful choice against many players.
Erm, okay? So, remind me, why would anybody play 2.c4?
MonkeyingAround wrote:
grass-hopper wrote:
MonkeyingAround wrote:
grass-hopper wrote:
Against d4 I like to play the dzindzi indian. It takes your opponent off book real quick and often into unknown territory!
Why would anybody play 2.c4?
This line is named after the grandmaster and two-time US Champion Roman Dzindzichashvili, who pioneered the defence in the 1980s. It looks like a strange cocktail of the Benoni, Dutch and Nimzo-Indian.
Black's decision to capture on c3 unbalances the position in a way he couldn't hope to do otherwise, and for this reason the Dzindzi-Indian is an effective line to play as Black if you are looking to win. One practical advantage from Black's point of view is that quiet responses by White tend to be at best unchallenging and sometime much worse than that, so the Dzindzi-Indian can be a successful choice against many players.
Erm, okay? So, remind me, why would anybody play 2.c4?
Why not?
pfren wrote:
At your level you should not bother about openings, at all.
I am sick of giving people this advice. It is of course entirely true, but they just get all flustered and defensive, as if you have offended them. Maybe they listen to you more because of your title?
grass-hopper wrote:
More to the point, why not?
What point is that more to, exactly? That is a very stupid question anyway, you have failed to defend the e4 square and you ask why somebody should not play 2.c4? Are you serious?
Yes I agree. It was a very stupid question.
grass-hopper wrote:
Yes I agree. It was a very stupid question.
I can't tell if you have actually realised that this is true or if you think you are being clever but in reality just don't understand the English language.
Jag tycker det är jättebra att flytta ut en bonde, kanske, sen så kan man göra något annat efter det. När man har gjort allt detta då kan man bara ställa drottningen där och vips så blir det schack matt!
Okay.. peace
Okay, now I know. You do realise that you are implying that you are victorious, right? Well done, you have achieved victory despite not even attempting to answer my only question. That takes some doing, pat yourself on the back!
P.S. That doesn't work nearly as well with "retards" as it does with "Christians".
Feb 3, 2014
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You guys are all a$$holes. You should not be using derogatory terms in reference to "retards" or "gays" or "colored people" or "women" or any religious denomination as all it does is make you that much more of an idiot and a complete disgrace to society!
Saying things like "That's retarded" or "That's Gay" or "Retards are this" or "Gays are that" or "You got beat by a girl" or "Christians this" or "Muslims that", etc, just goes to show that your IQ is lower than that of the pigeon shown in message 18 (a moronic message in and of itself!).
I have a Nephew with Down Syndrome, friends that are gay, colored, Christian (yeah, targeting you too ding-dong author of message 19), non-Christian, female, etc. None of them deserve to hear this kind of sh*t from that stupid moron pie hole of yours! Say something intelligent, or else SHUDDUP!
I need a new opening for when I play as black. The opening that I used is not good enough for my section. So can you please suggest some openings for black, and include it on a board if you can.