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GM Seriwan recommends beginners to play fiachetto openings because they are less tactical and also keep the king extra safe. I scoffed at this idea as I'm a battle hardened e4 player,but played the KID as black. I really begun to like the fun,easy to play kingside attacks I got out of that opening and begun to play the KIA against the French,and a variation of the KIA against the Sicilian.
Now most of my repertoir involves fischettos,hell I even play the fiachetto variation of the Vienna game. Try to find something that is similar in all your openings so you can link them together.
Strikerfm1 wrote:
... I even play the fiachetto variation of the Vienna game. ...
This sounds intriguing, but I can't find much online about it. Please tell me more or let me know where I can find out more about it ...
^ it's very similar to the KIA but involves some theory due to the fact that you are playing e4 and Nc3. IM Johs Waitzkin used it alot,and he even beat some greats such as GM Larry C.
Check out the chess master training videos,they come bundled with the program starting from Chessmaster 9000 which you can buy online for like 5 bucks. Most books on the Vienna don't cover it because they don't consider it a real Vienna line,and if they do they give it very little coverage.
Another example would be say,you like pawn chain play. You could tailor your openings to include pawn chain play,such as playing the French as black against e4 and the QGD or the Slav against e4. When you play openings that have similar themes it becomes much easier to memorize and play them.
Strikerfm1 wrote:
GM Seriwan recommends beginners to play fiachetto openings because they are less tactical and also keep the king extra safe. I scoffed at this idea as I'm a battle hardened e4 player,but played the KID as black. I really begun to like the fun,easy to play kingside attacks I got out of that opening and begun to play the KIA against the French,and a variation of the KIA against the Sicilian. Now most of my repertoir involves fischettos,hell I even play the fiachetto variation of the Vienna game. Try to find something that is similar in all your openings so you can link them together.
Hi! I was quite intrigued by these statements by GM Seirawan. Was it one of his books? thanks
1.E4 gives Black many ways to respond. If you like Sicillian type of structure, why not try the English 1.C4?
@opticnerve:
He says in his "Winning chess openings" book. He says this in the chapter dealing with how to avoid giving your opponent automatic kingside attacks. Curiously,he mentions the Pirc as a good defense against e4. Funny enough,the most aggressive lines for white give him strong king side attacking chances and black must be booked up completely or he is not lasting past 25 moves.
hankas wrote:
1.E4 gives Black many ways to respond. If you like Sicillian type of structure, why not try the English 1.C4?
I like playing against the Sicilian, not playing it myself. Though actually I don't mind the "Reversed Alekhine's Defense Sicilian" (I'm sure it's got a better name than this) i.e. the line that starts 1.c4 e5 2.Nf3 e4. The issue is that they might not play that line...
Black Openings Against:
1)e4
Sicillian Najdorf
Sicillian Dragon
Caro-Kann
French
1. ...e5
Alekhine's
Sicillian
2)d4
1. ...d5(if Queen's Gambit then Slav)
King's Indian
Queen's Indian
Bogo-Indian
Nimzo-Indian
3)Ruy Lopez
Steinitz
Steinitz Deferred
Berlin
Open Lopez
Classical Lopez
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Against the Caro-Kann play the Advance Variation(just enough rep for you to be assured that its sound but not enough rep that your opponent will be likely to prepare for it).
Against the Scandinavian play exd5. If Nf6 then c4 and if c6 then Nc3 followed up by Nf3. However, if he doesn't play Nf6, instead preferring the tempo-wasting Qxd5, play Nc3, and when he plays Qa5 play Nf3.
Hi,
When I was a beginner at Chess, I took the advice of more experienced players and didn't bothering with developing an opening repertoire. But with time I've just naturally started to find a few moves that I like and am now always playing them. I was wondering if people on this forum could suggest some more openings to try that lead to similar positions.
I love games where we castle on opposite sides of the board and then race to checkmate each other. This means that I usually play 1 e4. If Black responds with ...e5 than I normally play the Vienna Gambit (Nc3 then f4). Against the Sicilian I've fallen in love with the Snyder Variation (2 b3) and against the French Defense I like the Reti Gambit (2 b3, and let Black capture my e4 pawn with their d5 pawn).
However I still don't have any answers to the Caro-Kann, Pirc, Modern and Scandinavian Defenses. Also I don't have any openings as Black. Given the types of positions I like to end up in, what do people here recommend?
Thanks