Ultimate-trashtalker wrote:
90% is actually easy but 97 is not
You mean you have never scored 100%?
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Jun 8, 2023
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#263
Chuck639 wrote:
exceptionalfork wrote:
@Chuck639: "I get the Open Sicilian a minority of the time."
@Chuck639's games as black after 1...c5:
And @Chuck639's games as black after 2...d6:
So yes, it is "a minority of the time" that you see the Open Sicilian (if your definition of "a minority of the time" is most of the time).
What does rapid say?
Or the last 50 rapid games?
Thats more qualitative information.
Its generally when I play sober….
I can't limit it to the last 50 rapid games or to a specific rating range, but I can limit it to only rapid games.
Your rapid games as black after 1...c5:
Your rapid games as black after 2...d6:
As you can see, the Open Sicilian is still the most common.
Jun 9, 2023
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#264
exceptionalfork wrote:
Chuck639 wrote:
exceptionalfork wrote:
@Chuck639: "I get the Open Sicilian a minority of the time."
@Chuck639's games as black after 1...c5:
And @Chuck639's games as black after 2...d6:
So yes, it is "a minority of the time" that you see the Open Sicilian (if your definition of "a minority of the time" is most of the time).
What does rapid say?
Or the last 50 rapid games?
Thats more qualitative information.
Its generally when I play sober….
I can't filter it to the last 50 rapid games or a specific rating range, but I can limit it to rapid games.
Your rapid games as black after 1...c5:
And your rapid games as black after 2...d6:
As you can see, the Open Sicilian is still the most common.
Thank-you for that, I appreciate that.
I only ask because I switched over to the Kan this year because of the many anti-Sicilians I was running into, I also gained a quick 200 rapid points this way.
I routinely skim and analyze my games, and it’s anti-Sicilians I am seeing or remembering.
Either way, I’m not struggling against the Open Sicilian and these are stronger players I am playing against.
Thus is why I can say the Open Sicilian is not the most challenging from my perspective.
the open sicilian gives an easy game to us because we know it like the back of our hand. the npcs know that
the ¨special¨ community of chess.com does not know any openings and just plays the italian agianst everything
or they just like to be annoying and have actual prep with the bowdler attack. they know it has a phychological affect agianst sicilian players and they likely score high with it
heres a person with about 1000 games in the database. his win rate with the bowdler sicilian is 75%. Thats crazy bad because it shows how nobody knows what to do agianst the bowdler past an e6-d5 break.
the physological affect is likely great on black because they know that have to face another browdler attack like the last game before.. and like the last game before that .. and so on
yeah but i think they play it regardless of knowing its bad. i think they know how much of a physcological affect it has on their oppoment because of how commonly they get it
trust me, getting the bowdler sicilian for the 12th game in a row is a motivation killer
out of all my 300 sicilian games 50 of them were open (70% win rate for me lmao) the other 250 were alapins,grand prix,bowdler, or italian system (≈40% win rate for me)
Jun 9, 2023
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#269
Ultimate-trashtalker wrote:
Also the xchange french hehe. I would quit the Sicilian if i got so many anti games. If i don't get what I want, why would I even play it?
For the imbalance positions, counter play and winning opportunities.
Can you get a symmetrical position in the Sicilian?
im thinking about cashing in and playing a colle/london with the Qe2-e4-e5 plans
just because its easy and its instant 1900
Jun 9, 2023
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#272
Ultimate-trashtalker wrote:
U know what's funny? When i was at the 1600 stage and stuck, i got myself unstuck by playing the London( without knowing it like on autopilot, just knew the attacking plans) and caro. Using those two openings i climbed to 1830s. Then i took up the catalan and went on to reach 2000. In my opinion the path from 1900 to 2000 is pretty smooth i reached it without much difficult. It was much harder for me to cross 1850 from the 1790s than crossing 2000.
How did you like the Catalan?
I am enjoying a Reversed Grunfeld System and taking it to OTB.
i know most of the catalan plans and theory and most people dont take and go for a more boring position where you are just +0.5 the whole game
(this variation)
Ultimate-trashtalker wrote:
I don't know about the reverse grunfeld but i really like the reverse Benoni. I play it sometimes in bullet when allowed and it's really good. Like u get to know how the first move advantage makes an almost unsound opening into a sound one
the reverse grunfeld is great if they accept it. but if they dont its kinda hard to play but still fine
the reverse benoni is an absolute pain because black can play Nc6 instead of c5 and its just annoying
but if you get c5 than its nice. i would recommend the reverse benko with b4 instead on e3
i think playing the reverse homadka system is the perfered way of the reverse benoni. but then it becomes a reverse pirc main line
its not the mainline pirc, but its one of the sidelines where black plays c5 instead of c6
Jun 9, 2023
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#278
Thats great to know! Thanks.
I’m not a d4 guy but when I started defeating stronger players with the Reversed Grunfeld (can transpose to the Catalan), I just continue playing.
Knowing the subtle middle game plans when my opponents play their auto-pilot d4 defense.
Bypassing a lot of theory is very freeing to play.
A couple lines, are drawish but I just take it and move on.
@Chuck639: "I get the Open Sicilian a minority of the time."
@Chuck639's games as black after 1...c5:
And @Chuck639's games as black after 2...d6:
So yes, it is "a minority of the time" that you see the Open Sicilian (if your definition of "a minority of the time" is most of the time).
You would have to filter the data further to rapid games to only this year to have useful information.
Bullet, blitz and previous year games shouldn’t count because chess was a drinking game at the time.