Guys, I don't think King's Gambit is a bad opening. Spassky won against Fischer (1960) using it and the opening intrigued so many chess minds. King's Gambit is acceptable in my opinion...
Would a chess teacher like my opening repertoire?
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I am going to use an example from professional and college basketball to explain the reason why you have to study and practice endgames. How does the player know how much arm strength and leg strength to use to swish a 3-pointer? The answer is simple, it's muscle memory. He has practiced that shot so many times that he can do it in his sleep. He can see the ball going through the hoop in his mind and at the same time his muscle memory kicks in.
It is the same with endgames in chess. Take for example the basic checkmate endgames in chess. What you have to know is that in every basic checkmate endgame the same endgame technique is used. I call it corralling the king. It is the same in all of them (K+R vs. K, K+Q vs. K, K+2Bs vs. K, K+B+N vs. K), you fence the king in, you drive him into the corner by making the fenced in area smaller and smaller and then deliver mate.
You have to practice those basic checkmates until you can do them in your sleep. Then, when you are playing a game something magical happens. Those same basic fencing in(corraling) patterns will become apparent to you when a similar pattern is reached in a game that you are playing, even though it is mixed in with pawns and other pieces in the position you are looking at. That pattern will jump up off the chess board and smack you in the forehead. I know, I have had it happen to me. Because, I can do the basic checkmate endgames in my sleep.
The same rule applies to all endgames. You have to practice them so much that you can do them in your sleep.
Anyway, good luck with becoming a stronger player.
Guys i do study middle and endgames, but also openings. i look at everything!
The KG is pretty much refuted, although its a great weapon in blitz. Most of your openings are generally unsound and I would reccomend choosing more sound openings.
May 2, 2012
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#27
There is no refutation to the KG, even Fischer didn't believe this, Kasparov lost to it, as did Fischer, and Carlsen recently used it, to me it is far from refuted, it looks like it is alive and well, as for its all out attack tendancies, those might have been tamed at the highest level. oh and Roeczak, KG players generally know not to take the e pawn as white
Actually Fischer published an article calling the KG refuted.
May 2, 2012
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#29
The Gavinator, he played it about 8 times after the article was published, and won all his games with it, hardly refuted to me.
please note the emphasized words, also just out of curiosity how would a coach evaluate my openings
as white,
1. e4
that is is, ocasionaly I will play 1. f4, but that is once in a very long time as with 1. c4
as a responce to the primary defences to my move
against ... e5
f4 almost exclusively, if I play Nf3 I play the Italian Game
against... c5
mainline as far as my opponent lets me, then I play on my own, I often break at move 6 or 7 anyway in the mainlines, so it matters not too much
against... e6
either b3 or I head for a Tarrarch French
As Black
against 1. e4
varies between ...e5, ...c5, and ...Nf6 which I don't play often
against d4
... f5 FTW(for the win) and I play the Classical variation, not Stonewall
against c4
whatever I feel like playing
against others, I am on my own really
But because he won, it doesn't mean that it wasn't refuted. He was one of the greatest players of his time, he could win with most things.
jetfighter13 wrote:
against... c5
mainline as far as my opponent lets me, then I play on my own, I often break at move 6 or 7 anyway in the mainlines, so it matters not too much
There are about 5 different mainlines in the sicilian - I assume that you mean you play open, correct? Not closed or c3 or something like that.
May 2, 2012
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#32
oh and also I just did a quick read of it (yes I can read descriptive now), and he only refutes the King's Knights gambit here is the part of the analysis in PGN format
1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3. Nf3{and only here does Fischer begin to bust it by analysis, also notice that players like me, Anderssen, BOBBY FISCHER, and others who favor the more all out attack aproach to games circum navigate this by playing the simple but effective move 3. Bc4}( 3. Bc4 {this move is better than 3. Nf3 simply because it allows white to get many tempi attacking the black queen should it come to h4 with or without check. Which is why when it is played 2000+ the move Nf6 is played, BOBBY FISCHER notably played this variation in his striking 11-0 1963 US championship against GM Larry Evans who ironically published the famous "A Bust to the King's Gambit" article only a few months before the game.}) 3 ... d6{ and here Fischer claimed that this "high class waiting move" won by force, and wen on to analyse many lines, but to me the simple move 4. Bc4 seems to negate any possible advantage that black could gain by this move simply due to 4...Bg4 5. 0-0 and white has an easy game ahead with a lot of preasure mounting on the kingside, specifically the f-file. however Black does not have to play 4 ... Bg4 but can play 4... Bc5 and counter the aforementioned preasure, but after d4 it is hard to see what black has.} 4. Bc4 Bg4(4...Bc5 5. d4) 5. 0-0
and the first 5 half moves are in the diagram
May 2, 2012
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#33
shepi13 wrote:
jetfighter13 wrote:
against... c5
mainline as far as my opponent lets me, then I play on my own, I often break at move 6 or 7 anyway in the mainlines, so it matters not too much
There are about 5 different mainlines in the sicilian - I assume that you mean you play open, correct? Not closed or c3 or something like that.
yes
Jetfighter since you write thousands of words advocating '' Kings-Gambit '' why not post some of your best successful-games with it ?
( I began looking at your game-history & have struggled to find many KG games ? )
May 2, 2012
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#35
what, I play it almost exclusively against 1... e5, I need someone who has a diamond membership to look at my percentage with it, on this site, OTB I am undefeated, but here I think I have like maybe 2 or 3 losses out of around 20 games with it
It is an exciting but '' unpredictable '' opening. I do not see you using it much ? ( though some some players do specialise in it ) Since most reading this forum are beginners/learners I cannot recommend it except for fun/blitz games.
When the '' games-explorer '' on this site becomes functional again I will have a look at the king's gambit games you have played.
May 2, 2012
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#37
yeah, I noticed that it gave no games period for me, I am playing one right now and though I am two pawns down, I have more space and better pieces than my opponent, I just had my worst loss with it recently, but that provided some nice learning points for me, mainly strike when the iron is hot, there was one point in that game where had I simply taken the f7 pawn I would have won
There is a great deal of positive & wise-advice being offered towards beginners in this thread from experienced players & coaches. I would lend emphasis to that instead of any opening in particular.
btw my definition of studying openings is that you learn the patterns and basic plans, the moves will make sense then. if your focus is on memorizing a move then your doing it wrong... review some games, dont worry about they play this I play that, just the first 8 moves , look for a reason for the last 3-4 moves , what was the plan? is it just basic principle usually its more than that but dont worry if you cannt figure it out right away. Every good coach I know teaches something specific in the opening but the focus is not this is best but more about the ideas and plans for both sides.