so youre saying youre proud about flagging your opponents in absolutely lost position? what does this have to do with excellence, beauty and class? most of us play to get certain mental pleasure from the game, not to troll and flag.
Under 18 hundred openings does not matter !!!
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opawnent wrote:
so youre saying youre proud about flagging your opponents in absolutely lost position? what does this have to do with excellence, beauty and class? most of us play to get certain mental pleasure from the game, not to troll and flag.
First of all , it doesn't matter how you win . Win is a win and that's it.
Second of all what I'm trying to show here is under 1800 rating openings does not matter.
opawnent wrote:
so youre saying youre proud about flagging your opponents in absolutely lost position? what does this have to do with excellence, beauty and class? most of us play to get certain mental pleasure from the game, not to troll and flag.
Ok here! Especially for you , without flagging in an absolutely winning position , as you wished.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/2684139378
Happy now?
So many begginers now days keep asking questions like what opening should I choose? What should I play, what books? Etc. ..... ALL YOU NEED STRONG TACTICS AND SOME STATEGY! !!!
Absolutely... The better you get at tactics and patterns, the easier it is to learn opening lines anyway... work smarter not harder. Tactics should be 80% of your studying or more until your tactics is 1800+ There is no point in spending all this effort memorizing opening variations for a slight edge when you will probably drop a piece 5 moves into the middlegame anyway. The only things you need to know about openings when you are under 1500 is 1. Develop your pieces on to good squares (knights natural squares are on c3/f3). 2. Fight for control of the center. 3. Try not to move the same piece twice without significant justification. .4 develop knights before bishops. 5. get castled and connect your rooks. 6. Pay attention to your opponents moves and which side he plans to castle on.
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Exactly my point, thank you.
dunno my tactics rating is pretty good and still seem to suck at the game. maybe its strategy I need to learn.
wow tipish you do have pretty good tactics I would say you just need to get a bunch of games in now so that you will be solidifying those patterns and creating your own tactics in your games.
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m_n0 wrote:
https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=2684046393
Ah, maybe they do matter after all.
LOL.
Mar 17, 2018
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#12
The openings you played were trash. No offense. I get the point you are trying to make, but wasting a dozen tempi will get you mated against anyone who is around 1500+ If you play sound sidelines only rather than that... you will not only win by method of flag or having a 'cooperative' opponent.
Mar 17, 2018
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#13
Kmatta wrote:
m_n0 wrote:
https://www.chess.com/livechess/game?id=2684046393
Ah, maybe they do matter after all.
LOL.
LOL
Mar 17, 2018
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#14
This won't help your tactics or strategic play, it will get you mated quickly.
This is a great quote from the OP's page -- "Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position. Boris Spassky."
But there seems to be a problem with his "chess logic." His 1-minute games show off his speed, but his results at blitz (with lots more losses than wins) seems to contradict his assertions in this thread.
I agree that opening (largely) don't matter with players rated under 1800 (USCF), but you still need to know how to play the game at other (fairly fast speeds) and if you're getting beat regularly at Game in 5/0 or Game in 5/5, then (perhaps) you need to make some adjustments to your overall strategy.
Just a thought.
I learned the Modern Defense (more or less), and played it with both colors, when rated about 1800 USCF.
At a Game in 30 tournament (5 second delay) I went 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss in 5 games against 4 Experts (USCF 2000-2199) and one NM State Champion. I was an "unknown quantity" to them, and yes, the clock was ticking, but I knew (fairly well) this (fairly new opening). That was about 20 years ago.
Now, you can watch Nakamura (on this site) blast GMs, IMs, and FMs off the board playing the "new and revised" Modern Defense with 4)...a6 in Game in 3/0. It's Amazing to Watch.
On balance, the "best opening" is the one you know better than your opponent.
It helps when it's speed chess, too.
After a second look at the OPs game record -- his blitz games are mostly Game in 3/0, so the speed dimension remains dominate in deciding who wins these games, regardless of how well they are played into an endgame of 50+ moves.
Whatever floats your boat. Go with it.
#16 very funny, never heard that
It's all about tactics and strategy, NOT an opening !
Please don't ask something like : which opening is the best etc...
Here's few examples of ignoring openings.
https://www.chess.com/live/game/2683998659
https://www.chess.com/live/game/2684015149