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Smartattack
Nov 7, 2007
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#21
Sicilian Dragon vs Yuguslav Attack.Spectacular games always
what is yuguslav attack
With White:
1. Ruy Lopez
2. King's Indian Attack
3. vs Sicilian: Sozin or Closed
With Black:
1. King's Indian Defense
2. Pirc Defense
3. Modern Defense
I like the fact that i got so many same-looking openings (KIA, Closed Sic ; Pirc, KID, Modern), so I don't have to learn very much theory + plans in opening & middlegame are very clear to me. This helps me to play opening+early middlegame pretty fast, so i got more time to think about my moves later in the game (applies only to OTB)
As white:
English
I used to play 1. e4 and back then I played the king's gambit against e5 and the morra against c5, the exchange against the french and the panov against the caro-kann.
As black:
The french
The benko
The Rubinstein variation of the english
I used to play various sicilians before switching to the french including the dragon, accelerated dragon, and sveshnikov.
lovn the replys folks!
i like queen's pawn openings. QG and the likes. also ruy lopez, french, pirc, and sicilian is good. two-knights sometimes. this is what in most games i am using.
i like english, barcza, alekhine, birds, and ruy openings, anyone have more varietions other than what has been posted?
Nov 8, 2007
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#28
To d_case:
Yuguslav attack happens frequently when players castle opposite direction.Then u can throw you pawns to his king.happens mostly in sicilian dragon games and it s pretty hard to stop.
I like Pirc Defense, Queen's Gambit, Slav, and sometimes I used Ruy Lopez...
So, With White:
1. Queen's Gambit
2. Ruy Lopez
With Black:
1. Pirc Defense
2. Slav Defense
Smartattack wrote:
To d_case:
Yuguslav attack happens frequently when players castle opposite direction.Then u can throw you pawns to his king.happens mostly in sicilian dragon games and it s pretty hard to stop.
thankyou, if youcan make a pgn viewer or a mini game of this happening it be more clear, otherwise ill look it up..
thanks!
thankyou!
Those are my favorites:
1) French
2) Ruy Lopez
3) Italian
4) Sicilian
5) Petrov defence
excellent!
Nov 9, 2007
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#34
d_case wrote: Smartattack wrote:
To d_case:
Yuguslav attack happens frequently when players castle opposite direction.Then u can throw you pawns to his king.happens mostly in sicilian dragon games and it s pretty hard to stop.
thankyou, if youcan make a pgn viewer or a mini game of this happening it be more clear, otherwise ill look it up..
thanks!
just go to chessgames.com they will have probably thousands of the yugoslav.
erikido23 wrote: d_case wrote: Smartattack wrote:
To d_case:
Yuguslav attack happens frequently when players castle opposite direction.Then u can throw you pawns to his king.happens mostly in sicilian dragon games and it s pretty hard to stop.
thankyou, if youcan make a pgn viewer or a mini game of this happening it be more clear, otherwise ill look it up..
thanks!
just go to chessgames.com they will have probably thousands of the yugoslav.
thankyou, later tonight when i get back from my highschools regional football championship i will..
likesforests wrote:
I prefer less popular openings where the theory doesn't go 20-30 moves deep (like in some lines of the Ruy Lopez) but perhaps only 8-14 moves deep. I enjoy playing chess more than I like memorizing opening lines (or relevant master games).
Seriously, though... at your level mastering opening principles is more likely to improve your rating than studying openings lines. Good luck!
Thanks for all the good advice
This is a really useful thread, for people like me, who may be just starting to read up on openings. Thanks to d_case for starting the thread and others for posting the replies.
thanks to everyone whos been contributing this information and glad its helping us all!
anyone else?