good openings for medium level player?
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bendover360
Sep 23, 2020
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good openings for medium level player?
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bendover360 wrote:
good openings for medium level player?
Nf3 - Reti.
Knight develops to a good square controlling e5; allows for plenty of flexibility with d and e pawns; if desired can castle on 4th move. At this point many players more familiar with e4 opening and possibly d4; this may place you at an advantage. Third most popular move in GM games after, what else, e4, d4. Good luck. 
Sep 24, 2020
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the london is often a great flexible opening for white just because of how simple it is to not only learn, but to master as first opening imo. openings as black can be a little trickier naturally, but find one you like for e4 and another for d4 and that should give you a good base. doing that got me from 1500s to 1700s in a couple months. if you want to follow me at https://www.twitch.tv/fourt5 im always playing viewers and im also trying to start teaching some stuff on stream.
Aiden-1089 a écrit :
The Bongcloud! Hikaru played it in a serious match and won!
OFC not good for an intermediate player. It is not good all in all, if Hikaru plays it it deos not mean it is good, it was just a bluff
French defense is my recommendation
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So what does a medium level opening look like? Can we say it should be solid, flexible, low-risk, with not a lot of theory needed?
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you can play italian or ruy lopez as white. and black openings are related with whites first moves.
you can study sicilian, king indian, slav, semi slav, french, caro kann.
I like playing the modern against e4 .also I like the the nimzo indian against 1 d4 as you stop white from getting the center. I like caro kann to
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I would recommend Scandinavian for black, it's not a good opening at high level but pretty decent at lower levels. You cut down the theory and it's very easy to play, you just need to achieve a setup. There is a Gambit too called the "Icelandic Gambit" which arises from the Scandinavian, your opponent could easily go wrong, if he don't know what he's doing.
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I played the Scandinavian with good success (better than what I play now), but it’s just so boring. I’d rather play fun games and lose than games that all look the same.
The advantage is that you completely destroy most of white’s plans. Once you play the Scandinavian, they pretty much are obliged to play your game. Too many players as black move their queen too much in the opening trying to play for tricks and get behind in development and lose. If you play solidly as black, you can have a good game, but it’s boring.
The advantage is that you completely destroy most of white’s plans. Once you play the Scandinavian, they pretty much are obliged to play your game. Too many players as black move their queen too much in the opening trying to play for tricks and get behind in development and lose. If you play solidly as black, you can have a good game, but it’s boring.
try the scotch opening
oooof yeah 600 rated, I think you should learn prinicples instead of learning opening theory
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NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
I played the Scandinavian with good success (better than what I play now), but it’s just so boring. I’d rather play fun games and lose than games that all look the same.
The advantage is that you completely destroy most of white’s plans. Once you play the Scandinavian, they pretty much are obliged to play your game. Too many players as black move their queen too much in the opening trying to play for tricks and get behind in development and lose. If you play solidly as black, you can have a good game, but it’s boring.
The advantage is that you completely destroy most of white’s plans. Once you play the Scandinavian, they pretty much are obliged to play your game. Too many players as black move their queen too much in the opening trying to play for tricks and get behind in development and lose. If you play solidly as black, you can have a good game, but it’s boring.
Agreed you must play for fun, but still if you are playing the Scandinavian you don't have to play the same variation again and again,there is some theory in Scandinavian too. It could branch out.
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chamo2074 wrote:
oooof yeah 600 rated, I think you should learn prinicples instead of learning opening theory
Great point.
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To be fair, he’s not asking for tons of theory here. You should choose an opening you like fairly early and it doesn’t preclude the learning of basic principles; in fact, they kind of go together hand in hand. Play a simple sound opening, develop your pieces, castle, watch for hanging pieces, learn defenses against common noob trick openings, and before you know it you’ve gone up a couple hundred rating points.
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NikkiLikeChikki wrote:
To be fair, he’s not asking for tons of theory here. You should choose an opening you like fairly early and it doesn’t preclude the learning of basic principles; in fact, they kind of go together hand in hand. Play a simple sound opening, develop your pieces, castle, watch for hanging pieces, learn defenses against common noob trick openings, and before you know it you’ve gone up a couple hundred rating points.
To be honest, the very first principle that completely changed my way of playing chess was to understand the concept of Undefended pieces. I still don't know any opening theory. Just play logical moves keeping everything defended. And of course practice tactics a lot.
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Aiden-1089 wrote:
The ware opening! I once saw a GM play it!
it was Carlsen
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