Why does EVERYONE play the Philidor Defense?
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Dec 20, 2020
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My go to is the Caro Kann. I’m not sure I’ve ever played the Philidor.
Dec 20, 2020
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ExploringWA wrote:
My go to is the Caro Kann. I’m not sure I’ve ever played the Philidor.
Hmm... well do you know why these people keep playing it?
Dec 20, 2020
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JackRoach wrote:
ExploringWA wrote:
My go to is the Caro Kann. I’m not sure I’ve ever played the Philidor.
Hmm... well do you know why these people keep playing it?
I am clueless.
Dec 20, 2020
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#5
I have a few books on the Philidor, but they are relegated to being on a shelf for at least the next few years.
I remember when I was rated around where you were, people were so afraid of getting their knight pinned that they kept making preeemptive pawn moves like philidor H6/A6 moves resulting in poor development and center pawn breaks became deadly.
Dec 20, 2020
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Gimfain wrote:
I remember when I was rated around where you were, people were so afraid of getting their knight pinned that they kept making preeemptive pawn moves like philidor H6/A6 moves resulting in poor development and center pawn breaks became deadly.
Hm... that is probably a factor. I hate getting my knight pinned also.
Dec 20, 2020
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#8
The Philidor defense , it keeps blacks darksquared bishop boxed in behind the d pawn, I have played it sometimes, but the main idea behind it is to get the move f5 in. Nowadays I dont think I'd play it in a Clubgame .
If black plays c5 in the Exchange Variation it can give white an advantage. Im no Expert but this is my experience
Dec 20, 2020
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#9
No one is really answering my question, except for Gimfain who noted a likely factor. I know what the Philidor Defense is.
Eric Rosen
They are going for his tricky tricky trappy stuff. It is a gambit. It starts like this
Dec 20, 2020
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NilsIngemar wrote:
Eric Rosen
They are going for his tricky tricky trappy stuff. It is a gambit. It starts like this
THis is the Petrov's defense
He was responsible for this from black players for a while.
At least for people who played it against me lol.
JackRoach wrote:
NilsIngemar wrote:
Eric Rosen
They are going for his tricky tricky trappy stuff. It is a gambit. It starts like this
THis is the Petrov's defense
It is all the same to me lol.
Oops
Dec 20, 2020
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NilsIngemar wrote:
JackRoach wrote:
NilsIngemar wrote:
Eric Rosen
They are going for his tricky tricky trappy stuff. It is a gambit. It starts like this
THis is the Petrov's defense
It is all the same to me lol.
Oops
No worries. It's fine.
Well, most ppl at my level either go with queens gambit, or Italian
Dec 20, 2020
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Gimfain wrote:
I remember when I was rated around where you were, people were so afraid of getting their knight pinned that they kept making preeemptive pawn moves like philidor H6/A6 moves resulting in poor development and center pawn breaks became deadly.
True
Dec 20, 2020
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Tonya_Harding wrote:
And why I do play the Philidor, well, it's simple: it's under-estimated and under studied by players my level.
Here an example:
My 2100 rated teacher also used to say the same....and always kept pushing me to learn it cause not many people study it properly.
Dec 20, 2020
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#19
Well I don't play any of them...but am still a noob....so that's unfair to call anyone who plays Italian and philidor to be noobs
Half the time after they play e5 and I move Nf6, they play the Philidor Defense, at least people at my level do.
I think that GM Benjiman Finegold has something to do with this. (I he had a course or something, don't know the details) But they always play the same line and play the same general way.