One reason I quit playing E5 a long time ago... Too many different E4 openings to learn to play against. Learned to play the French Defense and Nimzowitsch instead.
That sounds like you're describing what you do when you play black. What do you play as white?
Fischer was an arrogant so-and-so even before he went completey loopy.
There's a fine line between being arrogant and being honest when one is in the stratosphere. Fischer's ELO was ridiculously far ahead of everybody else. And sweeping both Taimanov and Bent Larsen 6-0 is completely unique and eye-popping. He was battling the entire Russian chess team and infrastructure, and when he played Taimanov he didn't even have a "second" with him.
But I digress . . . ;-)
Fischer was an arrogant so-and-so even before he went completey loopy. At some point in the early 60s he was asked for his list of the top ten players of all time for a magazine. Although he had nothing but praise for Morphy (his #1), the remainder of the list got, at best, backhanded compliments. It was clear that he thought he himself was better than all of them, with the possible exception of Morphy.
I think it's wrong to call Fischer arrogant. Fischer was always pretty objective when it came to chess.
Fischer's top 10 list that was published in Chessworld was nothing as you claim. Other than his assertion that Morphy could beat any of Fischer's contemporaries in a match, everything in that article was not only objective but Fischer demonstrated his knowledge of past masters and their times as well as the fact that he had analyzed their games and was able to make a fair evaluation of their strengths and weaknesses relative to their times.
Don't play against it. Simple
In all of these lines, black king is safe.
I play the King's Gambit, and I love it!
A kindred spirit.
play 2...Nf6! usually lines transpose into harmless vienna gambit positions.
Uh harmless?
play 2...Nf6! usually lines transpose into harmless vienna gambit positions.
Uh harmless?
That's what I said
play 2...Nf6! usually lines transpose into harmless vienna gambit positions.
Uh harmless?
That's what I said
I mean ig it could seem harmless to 2000+ rated players, but to a pleb like me, i dunno,
The King's Gambit...
Cool but no one asked lol
get your king castled queenside asap.
play 2...Nf6! usually lines transpose into harmless vienna gambit positions.
I wouldn't say harmless...
Vienna Gambit is hard to play.
Vienna Games are really easy to play if you know what you're doing, Vienna Gambit even more so
I really like to play this as black
It's kinda hard to find a good second move for white in the Vienna
This just looks weird
d5
I use the Vienna gambit as a way of entering KG lines that I like, and avoiding one of the defenses I don't enjoy playing against.
Mind you, there is the complicated mess after 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5, but for some reason not many players will enter that particular variation.
I like that as black. It is recommended by Sakaev in his book about Petrov.
One reason I quit playing E5 a long time ago... Too many different E4 openings to learn to play against. Learned to play the French Defense and Nimzowitsch instead.