please analyze this

i have made a my own opening which i always use and i don't know if this one is just a variation of other openings... please analyze this one...

d4,a4,e3,b3,Bd2,Be2,Nf3,0-0

i also make variations of that opening depending on the moves of the opponent

Hi alundra120,

     Very interesting set up.  One possibility out of your opening is Lasker's Defense Reversed depending on what moves Black makes.  There are many others.  Before I analyze your opening please look at the following site:

           http://chesskids.com/grownups/openings.pdf

It will give you background information for the analysis that I will do about your opening.

      There are a couple of players from the Phillipines playing in the World Junior Chess Championship in Turkey .  One of them is Wesley So.  He is a pretty terrific player.  He has 3 points out 4 (2 wins and 2 draws), not bad considering that there is the toughest competition of under 20 yrs. old players in the world at that tournament. 

Really? I'm proud of that guy... Well, I'm under 20 yrs. old too but an amateur player.

Transpositions,

Thanks for the link.  I've been looking for a summary of openings like that, especially for some of the lines of the Ruy Lopez and Sicilian that I've been trying to differentiate from one another and learn.

If you want see his game live for round 5 today go to this site

           http://wjcc2008.tsf.org.tr/                                                                 at 8pm your time.

You can go to the site now and see his other games too: 

According to worldwide time it is 11:20AM your time and 11:20PM my time where I live in Florida.  So I think I'm right that at 8AM my time it will be 8PM your time in the Phillipines.  That is when the games start at 3PM in Turkey, that is 8PM your time and 8AM my time.  I hope you can access the site.  Have fun. 

I havn't opened the link yet... There's no reader in the pc I'm using. I'll open it later.

Afer reading that, I realized I made various variations with my opening. I remember using a Ruy Lopez-like variation with that.

When I'm playing Black, I use some variations depending on the opening of White. For example, most people do e4 as their first move. Most of my openings would be e5,d6,h5,g6,Be6,Be7,Nf6,0-0. Some openings defeat my opening when I make mistakes.

I also remembered. As White, I sometimes play e4,h4,d3,g3,Be2,Be3,Nf3,0-0.

I'm sorry, but any opening line that makes a4 the second move after d4 goes against everything we know about opening theory.  Why handicap yourself?

Too many pawn moves. I see the idea behind the final formation, but there is a huge hole on e4. In Queen's pawn openings black is going to play Nf6 early on and in this case, that knight is going to get onto e4 and make your life miserable. I would have to assume that one of your variations keeps black's knight off of that great outpost. Also, that knight on b1 is falling behind. Here are my replies as black: 1.d4 d5 2.a4 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5 4.b3 e6 5.Bd2 Nbd7 6.Be2 Bd6 7.Nf3 0-0 8.0-0 Ne4

redearth329 wrote:

Too many pawn moves. I see the idea behind the final formation, but there is a huge hole on e4. In Queen's pawn openings black is going to play Nf6 early on and in this case, that knight is going to get onto e4 and make your life miserable. I would have to assume that one of your variations keeps black's knight off of that great outpost. Also, that knight on b1 is falling behind. Here are my replies as black: 1.d4 d5 2.a4 Nf6 3.e3 Bf5 4.b3 e6 5.Bd2 Nbd7 6.Be2 Bd6 7.Nf3 0-0 8.0-0 Ne4

Well, I am trying to make variations to make that weaknesses gone. Anyways, I don't follow that sequence of moves since Black always destroy it with that hole. I always make variations depending on Black's moves. It's true that the knights of Black usually enters e4 but I always make sure that it retreats before something bad happen.

I just use the knight on b1 for defenses.