Any Opening Suggestions For A 1000-1200 Player?
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Apr 28, 2023
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GodsPawn2016 wrote:
Also:
You dont follow Opening Principles.
Youre hanging pieces.
Youre missing simple tactics.
Work on...tactics...tactics...tactics...and the bsics that i posted.
But...since you feel youre an "agressive player" you will ignore the advice, and memorize openings. We will see you back here later, when you ask the follow up question:
"Im memorizing openings, but still hanging pieces. Do i need to study openings more?"
You can argue all you want but I am in the 1000 - 1200 range and just performing basic tactics and not hanging pieces will at least maintain your rating. Knowing openings may help a little, but not very many losses at this level come from the beginning of the match.
I normally take the center with a center game, queens gambit, kings gambit if white and i play carro-Kahn when black
Apr 28, 2023
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#86
jacktombros123 wrote:
GodsPawn2016 wrote:
Also:
You dont follow Opening Principles.
Youre hanging pieces.
Youre missing simple tactics.
Work on...tactics...tactics...tactics...and the bsics that i posted.
But...since you feel youre an "agressive player" you will ignore the advice, and memorize openings. We will see you back here later, when you ask the follow up question:
"Im memorizing openings, but still hanging pieces. Do i need to study openings more?"
You can argue all you want but I am in the 1000 - 1200 range and just performing basic tactics and not hanging pieces will at least maintain your rating. Knowing openings may help a little, but not very many losses at this level come from the beginning of the match.
you are replying to a post from 6 years ago...
... Memorization is what most near-beginners mean when they "study" the opening.
I've always said learning the opening in the context of the middlegame is great. It's not just about getting your pieces off the back rank, but learning what you'll be aiming for and why.
And for example I bought Watson's french book after reading a lot of good reviews... but no one said it's for 1800+ and the book was too heavy on theory for my level. So that's another pitfall for newer players.
Things seem to be changing. In connection with the most recent Watson book, FM Carsten Hansen did write that it was "well beyond the level of most players rated below 1800".
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627015516/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen163.pdf
And IM John Watson himself noted the difference between his 2012 French book and others:
"Over the past two or three years ... numerous books on the French Defence have appeared, ... As is the wont with modern opening works, these books usually centre their recommended variations around an instructive and/or entertaining game, without great depth but with sufficient detail to show the main branches and explain basic ideas. ..."
It seems to me that, if one is concerned about this "pitfall", the thing to do is to encourage newer players to be aware of those modern opening works that differ from the "1800+" books and promote the learning of the opening "in the context of the middlegame".
Sure, that sounds good.