Why is 1.f3 ... 2.Kf2 the best opening?
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enderchess41
Dec 2, 2018
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I suggest you play it
Dec 3, 2018
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#2
I'd play it in blitz but certainly not in classical. Kf2 accomplishes nothing out of the opening and f3 is too passive.
Dec 3, 2018
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#3
And you need 2 tempi to achieve this. Netto you win 0 of the opening. No meaningful development, no central control. Instead, you restrict the king and weaken the kings light squares.
Dec 6, 2018
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#7
The goal is not to listen to idiotic trolls on chess.com with handles that end with 41.
Dec 6, 2018
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#8
ThrillerFan wrote:
The goal is not to listen to idiotic trolls on chess.com with handles that end with 41.
Is 41 some kind of meme? Please educate me.
Dec 6, 2018
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#9
Hey the OP has a diamond membership. He aint going anywhere.
Unless it's the free trial.
I once played in a rapid tournament in which one player was playing 1.f3 2.Kf2 in all his games. I told him he'd never play it against me. My thinking was if I told him he'd never play it against me he'd play it against me, just to prove he would. My plan didn't work as he played something else against me. He must have figured out my ploy. True story.
Dec 6, 2018
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#11
I don't see any mention of what kind of middlegame you get out of 1 f3 2 Kf2. Where do you end up attacking? If your simply playing those moves to hope your opponent doesn't understand the principles of the opening and will mess up because he's weak at strategy and tactics, that's not going to win many games at the Club Level.
Note that the "best" openings are those that allow you to reach a playable middlegame. 1 f3 takes away the usual best first developing square for the King's Knight. 2 Kf2 exposes the King and does nothing to help develop Pieces.
I makes no threats to Black and allows Black to build up a strong center and threats of its own.
There is no "best opening." The only advantage to having a favorite opening - and it IS important - is that you get to know it very well, hopefully better than your opponents and hopefully it fits your playing style well.
I coached a very successful high school team. A USCF National Master came to speak to the club and the teenagers were very surprised when he answered the question, "What's your favorite opening?" with "Any opening that gets me to a playable middlegame."
They learned not to get too caught up on the openings unless you know what kinds of attacks you may generate with it. For example, the Bishop's Opening 1 e4 e5 2 Bc4, like its cousin the Vienna Game, hopes to play f4 before Nf3, castle Q-side and then launch a Pawn Storm at Black's K-side. When my teenagers played 2 Bc4, they already knew what they wanted to do in the middlegame.
When they played the French Defense or the Caro-Kann or Slav Defenses, they often knew their middlegame counterattack would most likely begin with ...c5. Understanding the ideas behind the openings and the middlegames they give you is most important and gives you an edge over opponents who are only looking at the next move.
