The Owens defense!
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This is a very unique opening, does anyone have any feedback?
This is a clasic case of a player moving a pawn twice in the opening without a very good reason.
Apr 27, 2015
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#4
ADHDavid wrote:
This is a very unique opening, does anyone have any feedback?
Feedback? It's lame. I tried to form a repetoire in 1978 around playing 1. b3 and 1...b6 against anything.1. b3 is OK. But 1...b6 was terrible, especially against 1.e4. It doesn't block anything, it doesn't attack the center (for another move) and it doesn't challenge the e-pawn. You are no closer to castling on move 3 than you were on move 1. Of all the openings that don't involve moving a rook-pawn, it's the lamest.
don't get owened by the owen.
Apr 27, 2015
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#6
If the Owens were such a terrific opening, GM's would be playing it all the time. But they don't. This does not mean that it is "just bad". It just means you tend to get a worse position IF the opponent knows what he is doing.
The Owens Defence is a terrible open against 1.e4 if the white side player knows what he is doing.
However, The Owens sister opening is a Bad Ass. It is played against 1.d4 and it is called the Queens Indian Defence. WOOOO RAWWWWW.
the Owens isn't very good if white knows what he is doing.
luckily over 99% of the time, white hasn't much clue what he is doing.
The Owen's is stupid, period.
There are no advantages of the Owen's over any other proper defence that has a later b6, meanwhile White gets everything he is striving for in those other openings.
Arjun316694 wrote:
umm... what's this opening supposed to do?
Well the opening is suppose to put pressure on the e4 pawn. With also moves like Bb4 taking the knight on c3 etc. However, It sure is very shakey It doesn't seem to have the same kind of spark as the QID does. The plans are very similar though.
Apr 27, 2015
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#11
They're usually just hoping that after 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 white doesn't know that Bd3 allows him to float into the middlegame with no serious problems.
Apr 27, 2015
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#12
The position after 5Nc3 has tranposed to an English Defence position were is a weak move, as ponz pointed out. Then 6Nf3 was an outright blunder, so most of the weak play is by white.