What opening is the most drawish between 1000 - 1500 Eli?
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Obviously the Petroff and Berlin defense have the highest possibility of drawing at the Master level. But I would to add openings to my repertoire that can create drawing chances for a 1000 vs a 1500/1600. Does anyone have any thoughts?
Mar 5, 2023
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Chill_Vibes_Incoming wrote:
ANY Ruy Lopez line at Grandmaster level is technically a draw. But at lower level you can't really have a drawish opening. As the game continues because of blunders and inaccuarcies. So you guys probably won't repeat moves. Ii'm sorry for a disappointing answer though! So here are the MOST Drawish openings at GM level:
FOR WHITE:
Ruy Lopez: as there is no tactics and it is over studied with GMS rembering the line 30 moves in.
English: As this opening is positional and silent so it might end in a draw more then other openings.
London: Very drawish as it's easy for black to play against it and it's not really a fight. And it usually results in a drawn endgame.
FOR BLACK:
Berlin as you mentioned already
Queen's Gambit Declined: Very positional so usually just draws.
Petroff as you mentioned except there are ways to complicate the game.
Exchange French can result in a draw: Except you can have fasincating matches like the game against Morphy and Karpov. But many people who play it just want a draw.
And this is a common mentality that amateurs soon learn to scrap and forget.
Since 2014, when I changed my mentality about the exchange French, having used to think that I must go asymmetrical and castle whichever way White doesn't, to now playing Black's best setup, even if it results in a perfectly symmetrical position after 11 moves, and since then, I have faced the exchange variation over the board roughly 50 times in the last 8 1/2 years. I have drawn about a third of them (between 15 and 20). I have lost TWICE. I can even tell you when! 1/1/2020 in a Game in 33:40 event (that is 2020 seconds for the new year) and 1/7/2023 in a G/60 event - Both fairly quick time controls. I have won the rest of them! Roughly 30 out of 50, and scoring roughly 39 points out of 50 games, or a 78 percent score with Black.
Playing the Exchange French with the mentality to draw is a huge mistake. I could tell from the play that is what about 40 of the 50 or so games White was trying to do. Maybe 10 times or so White wanted to fight, and of those, I lost twice.
If you play 3.exd5 against me, you better come to fight. Otherwise, I will usually grind you down into a lost minor piece ending for White! I would say over 80 percent of my wins in the Exchange French are from entering a minor piece ending with a superior position.
Play some dubious gambit and hope that your opponent doesn't react properly. Then offer him/her a draw.
The most drawish opening? Giuoco Pianissimo? Although really the only time you'll ever see draws below 1900 is via accidental stalemate or timeout v. insufficient material
Easy..you just slip some money to the 1500.
Mar 5, 2023
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There are no "drawish openings" at the 1000-1500 level, because openings do not decide the vast majority of games at that level.
If you want to see what I mean, take a look at the LiChess 1600 database for rapid and classical games. The best draw rate for an opening move is ~4% (compared to roughly 40% at the master level).