Have you noticed the influence of Magnus Carlsen in amateur tournament games?
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Dec 2, 2016
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Are players more eager to trade queens?
Are endgames getting longer?
Are 1600 players imagining they can push tiny advantages for 40 moves and gradually break their opponents, or bore them to death?
I've been inactive in USCF tournaments and would like to hear your experiences.
Dec 2, 2016
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I don't know how to accurately say he plays, but that doesn't sound right.
I don't know how he plays, but I try to emulate one of the ways I think he plays. For example in openings as white I like to play non-theory to give up equality early just to get us out of book, keep a lot of pieces on the board, and may the better player win.
Of course non-theory at my level means something that looks reasonable on move 5 I may or may not have seen before, and have probably never studied or played before. Non-theory on his level might mean a sideline he knows 20 moves deep, but it isn't play much by top players 
Dec 2, 2016
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That's perfectly legitimate.
I give Magnus credit for showing us ways out of stodgy thickets of acceptable ways to play, approved by "official theory."
To relinquish the advantage of the first move for the sake of better winning chances, what a concept.
I don't know how to accurately say he plays, but that doesn't sound right.
I don't know how he plays, but I try to emulate one of the ways I think he plays. For example in openings as white I like to play non-theory to give up equality early just to get us out of book, keep a lot of pieces on the board, and may the better player win.
Of course non-theory at my level means something that looks reasonable on move 5 I may or may not have seen before, and have probably never studied or played before. Non-theory on his level might mean a sideline he knows 20 moves deep, but it isn't play much by top players