How Do You Play Safe Chess?

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algorab
Musikamole wrote:

 

I always enjoy your five cents. 

I have chess engines and Chessbase, so I am not interested in another software package to store and analyze my games. I would like to have a program that can keep track of the openings that I play, and the ones that need constant tweaking. I’d very much like to have a program that can display this information like chess.com’s Game Explorer,  in a tree. Right now, all of my games are organized by date, and that’s all. It would be nice to also store them by openings.  I have not figured out how to do that in Chessbase yet.

Do you know how to organize games by openings in SCID?

I’m currently smoothing out my repertoire against the French, because I always play 2.d4 after 1.e6, and if my opponent plays the most popular move, 2…d5, I need to have a move that I like. Well, I know that I don’t like the Winawer (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4) because of that annoying pin, and the doubled pawns after (1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Bxc3 6.bxc3). After some reading I’ve settled on the Tarrasch with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2). The upside to Nd2 is that there is no pin, e4 still gets a defender, with the downside being the temporarily blocked bishop at c1. Sigbert Tarrasch came to hate his own opening, but I don’t care. I think it is brilliant!

As a beginner, am I studying opening theory? Hardly any, really. I’m not even going 10 moves deep, nor 20-25, like GM’s. It’s more just a case of surviving the opening and having a good time playing chess.


 Wait a minute ... Game explorer shows you the moves played by 2xxx players in tournaments isn't it?

SCID with the engine shows you what happens when you or your opponent make subpar moves which is very informative and realistic at our level, the engine comes up with unexpected combination you would hardly see and you even learn tactics in the process and you can store those combinations in your personal library for later use.

There's a tree function and you can search your games by a given position or material too. The sharper the position the more useful the approach is otherwise IMO is better to just know the general setups and plans.

Regards

algorab
ajedrecito wrote:

Urusov Gambit - a good opening but really it is just a transpositional tool to reach the Two Knights Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nf6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nf3 Nc6 is the same as 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4)

And yes, it is full of tactics if Black doesn't know what he is doing. Any opening like this is a great choice for beginning tournament players. It will help with tactics for sure.


If you copycat the moves one difference I've seen between the 2N and the Urusov Gambit is that in the latter the Nf3 knight is on the way Smile...

BaronDerKilt

KBORG, Right on.

Scotch/Goring(aka "Semi-Danish" per Alekhine) Gambit complex kills in blitz & even corr. Great games Steinitz to Marshall era show all the tricks to it. I play Marshall move orders myself. Though the Ruy scores big too & even the KG or Vienna Game, in my own experience. But I like the potential violence of the Scotch et al. It is just so fun, and have yet to see black win by having an extra endgame pawn, even in blitz, in some 10+ years of adopting it. (So in a way, maybe it Is "safe" Chess, lol) To me, even decline lines seem advantageous (even when defusing of the usual) if played properly. The problem for me has been if/when black knows how to get into Lasker-like positions transpositionally. Maybe just a personal flaw? I don't study much anymore. Despite being fascinated to see the Kasparov/Carlsen use of Scotch play; I haven't seen the games, except one.

I've got a pretty nice one from today here, if I can figure out how to get it. From Live 5+2 play. And a good one of bind technique from elsewhere, corr game.

Yeah, TAL for tactics. He shows how to make a game that CANNOT prevent line opening. He is really a new school in himself.

I only disagree that someone need to be Class A to know something worth hearing. There are Class D players that appear to KNOW as much as an A but simply EXECUTE poorly. Drop a piece or such. But if they don't have their usual "crack" in play, they can take down an A. (Been there, suffered that. lol) Personally, I much rather play the kind that do not Know as much but play less inaccurately or less adventuresly.

Piece  }8-)