MidasMage yazdı:
Just because im 500 elo does not mean im not good at chess.
Thats excatly what it means
What are best chess openings to use?
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Jul 26, 2023
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what i meant by that was that you can study chess and such and play irl and not gain elo on chess.com
MidasMage wrote:
what i meant by that was that you can study chess and such and play irl and not gain elo on chess.com
For a very very very small subset of the chess.com forum population, that might be true, however, you have lost repetitively to 500s, so in your case the ELO accurately reflects the skill level.
If you are below 1000, use london because nobody knows the England gambit
Jul 27, 2023
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LorddVandheer wrote:
MidasMage yazdı:
Just because im 500 elo does not mean im not good at chess.
Thats excatly what it means
ROFLMAO!
According to theory, the Ruy Lopez, the Najdorf Sicilian, and the Nimzo-Indian, but that’s a joke and only important at engine level
You can play anything, but I recommend the Scotch, the French, and the Nimzo
The Sicilian is good for the begginers
King's indian is for everyone, every time
CrackLionIX wrote:
The Halloween gambit depends on the time control and strength of players. In online chess against the vast majority of players, the Halloween gambit is nice. Lichess statistics across all ratings and time controls show win rates of 53% white, 3% draw, 44% black. Even if you filter it to ratings 2000+, and ignore bullet time controls, the Halloween gambit still scores 51% white, 5% draw, 44% black - a perfectly good score.
This is true of most gambits. They score very well online, even though engines say they're crap, because - surprise - we humans aren't engines! Engines won't show the concept of a position that's numerically winning but really hard to play accurately.
That being said, in classical time controls against strong opponents, the Halloween gambit is not good. It's the epitome of "hope chess", where white just has to hope that black makes a mistake, and that's far less likely to happen with lots of time on the clock. I watched glutathione tablets 500mg price this gambit in a tournament game just a few days ago, between two 1800s with 2 hours per player, and black won fairly quickly. Black made a few key defensive moves and White was hopeless after that.
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Oct 9, 2024
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MisterOakwood wrote:
A good rule to guide club level players whether or not an opening is good is simply to ask yourself, whos game am I playing? My own? Or my opponents?
Take the Caro Kahn advance variation for example. The Tal variation is a great objective way to play for white:
Although this is objectively good for white, black has probably spend countless hours more studying and playing this variation that white. Therefore, in my opinion, this variation belongs to black. In club level or lower, the extra 0.1 eval simply wont matter.
So what are the ideas of most Caro players in the advance variation? Well, they simply want to break with c5 at some point and claim to have an upgraded french with the light squared bishop outside of the pawn chain or traded off. So how can you make the advance variation into a variation that "belongs" to white? If we could prevent the c5 idea, most caro players will feel very uncomfortable. Here is what I play:
Although this is not the most objective way to play for black, its what people will play the most. Since the line is not the most commonly played, black won't have studied it as much as white, and sticking to his regular plans, gives white the advantage. This is in my opinion a great way of spotting good variations in club level or below.
I like the general ideas of this post but there are a few issues with the logic.
a) analysis like this should be used in combination with the data. While you're correct about the experience difference in the Tal, white is scoring very well in the Tal despite that. Probably it's because the Tal can lead to very chaotic positions that are just harder for black to play than white, and where white has alot of options.
b) The other thing is... when you play a sideline and relinquish some objective advantage it's best if the position you're playing is significantly different, in terms of the patterns, from other positions the opponent will have faced. Even better is when it's difficult for the opponent to play it correctly. For the line you posted it feels like black just needs to play typical caro-kann moves, I don't see anything too unusual happening, it's similar to the Short variation.
A good rule to guide club level players whether or not an opening is good is simply to ask yourself, whos game am I playing? My own? Or my opponents?
Take the Caro Kahn advance variation for example. The Tal variation is a great objective way to play for white:
Although this is objectively good for white, black has probably spend countless hours more studying and playing this variation that white. Therefore, in my opinion, this variation belongs to black. In club level or lower, the extra 0.1 eval simply wont matter.
So what are the ideas of most Caro players in the advance variation? Well, they simply want to break with c5 at some point and claim to have an upgraded french with the light squared bishop outside of the pawn chain or traded off. So how can you make the advance variation into a variation that "belongs" to white? If we could prevent the c5 idea, most caro players will feel very uncomfortable. Here is what I play:
Although this is not the most objective way to play for black, its what people will play the most. Since the line is not the most commonly played, black won't have studied it as much as white, and sticking to his regular plans, gives white the advantage. This is in my opinion a great way of spotting good variations in club level or below.