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May 8, 2025
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#5
At your level you should study 1.e4 e5 openings. Look at games of Paul Morphy and you realise why chess is fun.
May 8, 2025
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#6
As white: Learn Italian. It is an easy opening to remember, the middlegame plans are easy and understandable, and you also have a chance to attack sometimes.
Jobava-London could also be a great choice, but it is focused more on a kingside attack than on calm, positional game.
As black: Scandinavian for more tactical games, Caro-Kann for more positional games. You can also play e5 against e4, but then be ready to study plans in Italian, Spanish and other openings.
Don't learn openings like Sicilian, Grünfeld etc. There are too hard and theory-heavy.
Splash2023 wrote:
As white: Learn Italian. It is an easy opening to remember, the middlegame plans are easy and understandable, and you also have a chance to attack sometimes.
Jobava-London could also be a great choice, but it is focused more on a kingside attack than on calm, positional game.
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Don't learn openings like Sicilian, Grünfeld etc. There are too hard and theory-heavy.
I never understood these claims. The Italian is more "theory-heavy" than anything else. It has many different systems, and some of those are insanely complicated and tactical. And all of that has been analyzed for centuries.
The advice "Learn the Italian" is pretty empty. There are so many things to learn that it would take more a lifetime to finish.
May 8, 2025
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#8
From my teaching career, i have this experience with students taught Italian: They only develop kingside and in some games they never use a1 rook at all. I am much more happy when my student play for example Vienna or Scotch.
May 8, 2025
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#9
magipi написав:
Splash2023 wrote:
As white: Learn Italian. It is an easy opening to remember, the middlegame plans are easy and understandable, and you also have a chance to attack sometimes.
Jobava-London could also be a great choice, but it is focused more on a kingside attack than on calm, positional game.
(...)
Don't learn openings like Sicilian, Grünfeld etc. There are too hard and theory-heavy.
I never understood these claims. The Italian is more "theory-heavy" than anything else. It has many different systems, and some of those are insanely complicated and tactical. And all of that has been analyzed for centuries.
The advice "Learn the Italian" is pretty empty. There are so many things to learn that it would take more a lifetime to finish.
I respect your opinion, but Italian is not the most theory-heavy opening. It doesn't even come close to Sicilian or KID. Sure, there are hundreds of different ways to play it, but if an inaccuracy is played in Italian, beginner could usually get away with it, but in Sicilian, KID or Grünfeld, this inaccuracy could decide the game.
The plans are also relatively easy to remember and knowledge of them could be obtained in 30 minutes from for example Chess Vibes video.
There are also opinions from strong players, who say that beginner shall play more tactical openings to develop the feel for initiative and tactics.
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magipi wrote:
The advice "Learn the Italian" is pretty empty. There are so many things to learn that it would take more a lifetime to finish.
Yes but beginners lack of knowledge cancels eachother out...
For example the Marshall Attack (ruy) has become "drawish" at Master level, but at 1000-2000 it's complete chaos because everyone is improvising random things quite early.
Same goes for Italian IMO... I enjoy the chaos of playing it without knowing theory
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