Dutch Defense... but still just practicing against Maximum.
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delcai007 wrote:
Dutch Defense... but still just practicing against Maximum.
Nice, I would stick to either side of the pawn chain though which is the classical or lenongrad (bad spelling), you're weakening your king. You can prepare the pawn push with d6 in the classical, and prolong developing your bishop to defend its' neighboring pawn. I probably didn't make 100% accurate moves according to theory, but that's the idea, have everything aim to get an outpost with your knight on your opponents side of the board
(Oops, I blundered f5, don't do that!)
I get that, Thanks. Another one for my library.
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delcai007 wrote:
I get that, Thanks. Another one for my library.
You should try to find the 4 move line of taking f5 in that example (without the engine) and examine the position to determine if the pawn is worth it, that's roughly the difference between 800-1100 and 1300-1500 elo
MaestroDelAjedrez2025 wrote:
Do you work at a public library or not?
It's okay with me but thanks to you and others here, my questions were answered... I was playing the Jobava London and there are lots of resources for studying that. For Black, against d4, I'm going with the Dutch Defense.
I'm still not sure about Black against e4 but the Scandinavian looks interesting.
How can make someone to love chess??
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#74
Make them play a game and explain how the pieces move and set up the board stuff and explain the game as you go. That way it will seem interesting and your friend or someone will most likely love it. You are welcome #73 and #74.
This morning, I played, as Black, what is close to my regular Opening as White (London Jobava London), but I looked up London Defense... no such thing.
ha ha.. no doubt
delcai007 wrote:
It's okay with me but thanks to you and others here, my questions were answered... I was playing the Jobava London and there are lots of resources for studying that. For Black, against d4, I'm going with the Dutch Defense.
I'm still not sure about Black against e4 but the Scandinavian looks interesting.
I recommend the French Defense, for you.
My reasoning is that I see you tend to avoid using your c-pawn to attack your opponent's d4/d5 central square - even when sometimes that c-pawn move is called for.
In the French Defense, the c7-c5 pawn thrust is thematic.
So, by learning the French Defense, you will naturally be fixing a weakness in your knowledge/play (learning how to make more use of that important wing pawn of yours) - and you'll become a more rounded player, as a result.
Just my advice - your call if you want to take it or leave it. 
28 days ago
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#79
Look at the Levy 10 min video about the French defense. It explains the exchange, advance, and complex main line, but if you don’t want the complex just use Levy’s suggestion for cut on study. The video does not explain the gambits and another opening counter to the French which is called the Horwitz variation so search them up on how to counter the French counters and then white will find a counter to your counters that counters the counter. This is getting confusing.
I would never have thought of 2. e4... is that common? I saved your game to my library for future study. Right now I'm in love with Jobava though.
Cool! It's called the blackmar gambit, and not common but sometimes people intentionally throw you out of prep to get an advantage so having a plan against strange moves like that can help. I just had that where I was playing into the benoni that turned into a weird variation called the czech benoni.