e4 response tournament

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Sack_o_Potatoes

There will be 4 teams, team Caro kann, team e5, team french, and team sicilian.

Rules 

  • Each team will play 4 vote chess games against 1 team
  • If the score is 2-2 then a 5th game will be played
  • For two of the games the opening will be one teams opening, for the other 2 it will be the other team, the 5th game will be random
  • The winning team advances
  • The two losing teams will be against each other for the race for 3rd
  • Each team will have a code
  • When you join the club please type the code for the additional message

 

 

Links: 

Team Caro kann: https://www.chess.com/club/team-caro-kann-e4-tournament

 Team sicilian: https://www.chess.com/club/team-sicilian-e4-tournament

Team e5: https://www.chess.com/club/team-e5

Team french: https://www.chess.com/club/team-french-1

Codes: 

Sicilian------- 6GHR567Q

e5--------------- 174HIR68

Caro Kann-- 82EHJ380

French-------- HF781AF3

Awards:

1st: All members will be admin in my club and each member gets pizza

2nd: All members are coordinator in my club

3rd: All members get pizza 

4th: Nothing

Hope you enjoy and sign up!!!

itsthenixx

this is already a thing

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/ultimate-1-e4-challenge

Maybe you could do one with d4?

Sack_o_Potatoes
toxic_rabbit wrote:

this is already a thing

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/ultimate-1-e4-challenge

Maybe you could do one with d4?

Ok sure

Sack_o_Potatoes

Will u join it

Sekada

Why not other openings like pirc?

Sack_o_Potatoes

Pirc isn't as popular

Sack_o_Potatoes

This tournament is cancelled

itsthenixx
Sack_o_Potatoes wrote:

Will u join it

yh sure

ThrillerFan
Sekada wrote:

Why not other openings like pirc?

Pirc is trash!

There are four moves against 1.e4 that are proven to be stronger than the other 16.  1...e5, 1...c5, 1...e6, and 1...c6 (the latter two assume ...d5 will be played against 2.d4 to prevent dominance of the center by White).

 

The other 16 moves are all weaker.  They are weaker to varying degrees, like 1...f6 is worse than 1...g6, but both are clearly inferior to the "Big 4" as they are sometimes referred to.

Sack_o_Potatoes
toxic_rabbit wrote:
Sack_o_Potatoes wrote:

Will u join it

yh sure

Ok

Sack_o_Potatoes
ThrillerFan wrote:
Sekada wrote:

Why not other openings like pirc?

Pirc is trash!

There are four moves against 1.e4 that are proven to be stronger than the other 16.  1...e5, 1...c5, 1...e6, and 1...c6 (the latter two assume ...d5 will be played against 2.d4 to prevent dominance of the center by White).

 

The other 16 moves are all weaker.  They are weaker to varying degrees, like 1...f6 is worse than 1...g6, but both are clearly inferior to the "Big 4" as they are sometimes referred to.

Yeah, modern and pirc aren't in the big 4, pirc isn't trash tho

Sack_o_Potatoes
ChesswithNickolay wrote:

 

Pirc and Modern are weak.

Pirc decent modern bad

itsthenixx

Their both playable but just not optimal since they both ignore the center