Less focus on openings and more focus on principles is probably a good idea here.
What to do when not prepared?
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The Colle-Zukertort can be played quite often. But it's very complex to master completely, I've not done it yet.
Greetings, Chessters.
I'm fairly new to the game, and although I have a couple of openings which I am familar with, I have a big problem when playing black. I play the sicilian a lot, and am a big fan of the dutch defense, stonewall variation, but those two is, of course, not enough. This means that when I meet an opening move, i.e. e3, I dont have a clue of what to do. Some times I try just to play sicilian or stonewall against everything I encounter, but as I'm sure you can imagine, it's usually unsuccessful. My question is therefor: Is there a good opening for black which can be used against most openings that does not start out with e4 or d4?
And if you were to mention 3 openings from black which is a good idea to learn, which would it be?
Hope to hear from you soon, Spakonen