Boring opening

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Avatar of Abhishek2

This opening drives me nuts!! 

What bothers me is that it looks so boring



Avatar of plutonia

there are ways to spicy things up.

 

for example you can delay castle and answer to the pin with h6 and g5, then castling queenside.

Or either player can use the fork trick to take on e4/e5.

 

But yeah, one of the reasons I play the sicilian is that I like asymmetrical and unbalanced positions.

Avatar of Scottrf

d4 loses the pawn.

Avatar of varelse1
Scottrf wrote:

d4 loses the pawn.

Loses?

Or sacrifices????Undecided

Avatar of naturalproduct

Copy Cat! You can't stand for a copy cat in your game. Punish them. lol

Avatar of Abhishek2

lol I don't even play this, just expressing my distaste for it.

Avatar of Abhishek2

lol. I have better things to do.

Avatar of Aletool

Play something else there is many more options to choose

Avatar of b3nnyhaha

Although it's slightly different this reminded me of a Capablanca game vs a copycat just to show that if you're paying attention, the better player will still win.

Avatar of AnastasiaStyles

If you don't like the Four Knights Game since you consider it boring, then play Halloween Gambit / Reversed Halloween Gambit Cool

Technically unsound, but just fine at a club level, and certainly fun. Oftentimes after some moves in, White has excellent development and Black has precisely none. A computer wouldn't analyse it as advantageous for White, or even equal, but you are not a computer and neither is your opponent (usually).