to say the least, not abandoning my ruy lopez french defense combo really sucks and i hav suffered defeat after defeat, so no regrets.
Abandoning an opening - a folly or necessity?
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I feel your pain about all that hard work keeping up with sicilians! I just started chess about a year ago and ever since I learned what an opening was I've been playing various sicilian lines as black -- I think I need to learn some more simple openings, maybe even e5! Andrew Martin ("Your Questions Answered by Andrew Martin") suggested that beginners learn "classical" openings to better their understanding of piece values/roles and the game in general.
I switched from KID to Benoni about a year ago. I must admit that I really regret that after a couple of months, when things were not going so well. I thought both once and twice about giving up on the Benoni, but in the end I felt it suited me better and now I'm glad I stuck with it.
May 23, 2009
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go for a hippo! I love that opening (hardly ever play it here though...)
i used to play the KID and the Dragon, they were the first openings i learned. but the KID is too over analyzed and played to often and the Yugoslav attack vs the dragon is just torture so i gave them up. ive been playing the french for years now, on yahoo but came here and met serious chess players again and got my butt whipped quite a few times with it, so after much deliberation and pain, im trying the caro-kann now...so far its alright...
JokernTP wrote:
I switched from KID to Benoni about a year ago. I must admit that I really regret that after a couple of months, when things were not going so well. I thought both once and twice about giving up on the Benoni, but in the end I felt it suited me better and now I'm glad I stuck with it.
I actually went the other way around, switched from the Benoni to KID. Reason: Taimanov attack (f4 followed by Bb5), could not find a good antidote for black. Still I enjoy transposing from KID into a Benoni by playing ...c5 at an appropriate moment.
In my "life as a chessplayer", I changed my opening repertoire in response to 1.e4 twice. The first time felt like an adventure, and I did it without regrets. I abandoned 1...e5, as it usually led to Ruy Lopez, and I did not want to suffer under pressure for 20+ moves. I moved on to Caro-Kann and stayed with it for many years. In time, and the decision was very, very difficult, I decided to abandon the Caro-Kann as too drawish. I moved on to the Sveshnikov Sicilian, and for a long time could not adjust. It was not an adventure anymore, it was hard work. I still wonder if I should not resurrect the old Caro-Kann...
I wonder if anyone else feels the same regret when abandoning an opening?