Openings for Endgame Player

hello all hope your having a good day.  First let me tell you a little about myself I have been playing competitive chess for around 2 years now, I play Caro Kann, Slav, and Queens Indain Defence for black, my otb rating is 1600.  My biggest joy in chess is stuyding the endgame, my biggest challenge is trying to create a good opening repetoire for white that I can base around my endgame skills.  I am willing to learn c4, d4 e4 or nf3 but I want to stick to one repetoire please, not sometimes I play English than sometimes Spanish.

Thanks in advance,

Mike

Hi zeggelar, 

Killabeez is right about favourable endgames in the dragon.  However, I don't know if the sicilian accelerated dragon would be an automatic choice, unless you had the tactical, defensive, and counter-attacking skill to navigate this opening.  I suspect you might be looking for something a little more solid, given his preference for caro-kan, slav and queen's indian.  So I think maybe just stick with the caro-kan against e4.  I don't know that there are any special endgame advantages black can expect in the Caro-Kan, but at least the solid position will make it easier to get there, and if this is your strength, maybe you can outplay your opponent even if you don't have an especially advantageous endgame position. 

If you are happy to go into a complicated middlegame stoush, then certainly most sicilian variations come with endgame odds, and I'd recommend considering one of the more solid variations like the scheveningen, since in the accelerated dragon you really will be trying to blast white's king in the middlegame, if staying true to the nature of the opening.  But whatever you do, if you play the sicilian, you have to be prepared to do plenty of opening study, and to get smashed at times by the white attack....

As black against d4, I'd play the queen's gambit rather than the slav, and look to go into a position with an isolated white queen's pawn.  You have to be a good defender, since white has excellent attacking chances in the middlegame.  Try to prevent white from liquidating his pawn with d5, which means fighting strongly for control of the d5 square.  Then, whenever possible without disadvantage, trade minor pieces, and the queen if you can.  Rook endings are best against the isolated queen's pawn.  Often you can have the pawn under attack on a file, the defender will be defending with a rook behind the pawn, but the rook is unguarded, so the pawn is pinned and you might be able to attack the isolani with a pawn and win it, or force it to advance and get closer to your king, and hence more vulnerable.

Killabeez's advice to play the and in the queens gambit play the exchange variation is good.  You'd have to make sure you know the minority attack plan, and you also still have to weather some piece pressure on your kingside before you get to a superior endgame.  d4 also has other openings that lead to endgames, like the grunfeld often leads quickly to an endgame when the queen on a5 swaps with the queen on d2.  King's indian leads to superior endgames for white also.

Definitely I wouldn't play e4.  Then you will face sicilians where the endgame will tend to favour black, and also in the Ruy Lopez, black is cramped so white generally likes to keep the pieces and queen on and play for the attack.

Their is nothing wrong with having a preference for aiming for a superior endgame, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.  In most openings, there is a lot happening, and whilst you will always bear the endgame in mind, you wouldn't want to miss great attacking opportunites if the position became ripe for it.  Plus, if things don't work out as planned and you find yourself in a position where an endgame would be inferior, you need to understand how to play dynamically in the middlegame, in keeping with the nature of the position.

I’m low rated, but I like to exchange my bishop to inflict doubled pawns and then work to keep them doubled. Then try to win one or get them isolated. Endgame secured!! Favorite opening is Rossolimo attack of the Sicilian defense with white which does exactly what I explained

Has Zeggelaar been here since 2008?

If you like endgames, I'd suggest playing whatever openings Ulf Andersson played and playing them exactly the same way he played them. He was not only a great all around player but possibly the best endgame player of all time and had great skill at turning a complex opening like KI into an endgame with a small advantage [and then winning that endgame].

It says his last login was in 2009.  

Still a good question though.

nimzo-indian , queen's indian and caro-kahn. they will let you keep a flexible pawn mass with few commitments and virtually no weaknesses

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Scandinavian Defense should be good for those who want to get to an endgame quickly.  Especially the 3...Qd8 variation.  Also has some similarities, in terms of pawn structure, to Caro-Kann defense.  Finally the Scandi has much less theory to learn than major defenses to 1.e4 (i.e., 1...e5, 1...c5, 1...c6. 1...e6), and thus is relatively "easy" to learn...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_f7oAbE6q0

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scandinavian+defense+qd8

Rat against d4 and the Pirc with 3. e5 against e4 lead to queenless middlegames. If you enjoy the endgame, you will for sure enjoy these kinds of positions. The queenless middlegame is not forced though. Nevertheless both are strategic openings and solid.

The rat, starting with 1.d4 d6 ... can also transpose into the pirc so they fit quite well together.

indeed. Queen less middlegames don't always lead to playable endgames for either side. You have to have the initiative to start with.