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Radiovitch

Are there any opening that don't require much theory or none, or that no one plays, but isn't a garbage opening. I want to find one where I could creat ''my'' line and make many complications without being as good as the najdorf or as bad/useless as the fred defense. I want to surprise those clubs players that have no imagination.

Radiovitch

or lines

MervynS

In blitz? I'd say the stonewall attack

kindaspongey

Maybe Winning Unorthodox Openings by Angus Dunnington (2000) would be helpful.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140708234438/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen15.txt

For Black, maybe you could try 1...d6: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627090726/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen157.pdf

or The Modern: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala (2012)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627122119/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen166.pdf

Radiovitch

well thanks, I hope it will helps me

Natural_Confidence

there really isnt any such opening or we could say you could use any opening for that purpose...it really all boills down to your imagination/proclivities and rating of the opponent...

Radiovitch

I don't want to spam subjects so here is my question that isn't related to the original topics. I wont to start play the slave or the semi slave, can some explain to me in deep, and not showing me lines, the difference between those 2 openings, I usualy play e6 againt d4

poucin

there are some good books for that...

Too much material to explain here

kindaspongey
Radiovitch wrote:

... the slave or the semi slave, can some explain to me in deep, and not showing me lines, the difference between those 2 openings, ...

I think the issue is whether or not one plays ... Bf5 before ... e6. I would be interested to know the origin of the term, semi-slav. I think it goes back to somewhere around 1937.

Nebber_Agin

The Slav and the Semi-Slav have an immense body of theory, neither is something you can pick up in a few hours of study.

If you want a playable system that takes the opponent out of the book within the first few moves, has little theory and puts emphasis on the middlegame the Hippopotamus System is the prime candidate. You can play it with both colors, too.