Never Finchetto again, ever

After being crushed, and watching others be crushed, i have decided to make a solemn vow to NEVER finchetto again, not even as Black.

Who is with me?

Not me :P What is so bad about fianchettoing? I mean, I don't like doing it either for the most part, but with good skill you can make it work and fend off kingside attacks. One interesting finachetto is the King's Indian Defence, my own opening. In the KID, black is the one doing all the kingside attacks!

I have more than a couple wins that I can attribute in part to a fianchettoed bishop pressuring/pinning pieces on the long diagonal.

lol

Fianchettoing can be very effective in the right position. Words like "never" hardly belong in chess.

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 Classic!

Never sac your king.

Fianchettos can be very useful in certain types of positions if you know how to play them.  Several very sound openings based on a fianchetto are used frequently by GMs.  Perhaps you don't want to use fianchettos because of your playing style, but that certainly doesn't mean you should dismiss them entirely.

 Are you saying as black, you fianchetto more than 100% of the time?

It means he sometimes fianchettos both Bishops when he's playing as Black.

Ergo, you never do it.

Victory always belongs to Nytik. 

never resign before move 1

 I would if it were the final game of the tourney and both my place and my opponet's place are guaranteed, and I have an extremely long journey home.

I love the fianchetto. I finachetto at least one, and often both, bishops in almost every game I play (English/Reti as white, Pirc/Rat as black).

I especially love the double fianchetto. If you can destroy white's pawn center, post center pawns of your own supported with the bisops on the long diagonals... you have an easy game from there.

One more thing fianchetto is Italian for on the flank so it shouldn't be fianchetto a bishop it should be a bishop on the fianchetto...

Wouldn't that make it "a bishop on the on the flank?"