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why e4 is better than d4.
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chessredpanda wrote:
e4 leads to open positions almost always.Open positions tend to be easier to play than closed positions which happen a lot of the times in d4 openings.
Finally somebody said it.
e4 leads to open positions was the first comment
aronchuck wrote:
but it doesn't. e4 leads to just as many closed and half open positions as 1. d4. That e4 always leads to open positions is a complete fallacy.
1. e4 e6 - Now it's almost certainly going to be pretty closed already!
Funny you should say that. Because from my side of the French, you'd think it was a law that 2...d5 be met swiftly and without exception by 3.exd5.
Chessredpanda = lame ... I've seen three posts now where you type hundreds of question marks (or periods). You get a kick out of doing that? What are you, six years old or something? For those of you that don't know, if you read the forums on a tablet or mobile, it screws the screen up.
Dec 11, 2013
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#27
Why are people so concerned about comparing 1.e4 to 1.d4, when 1.c4 is clearly to greatest opining ever invinted!?
Dec 11, 2013
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#28
Very few of us on this site can use an opening "advantage" to win. Most games are lost by a tactic... not the opening you play. Chess is chess. With that said, play what you are comfortable playing.
BMeck wrote:
Very few of us on this site can use an opening "advantage" to win. Most games are lost by a tactic... not the opening you play. Chess is chess. With that said, play what you are comfortable playing.
Actually, I would argue that most games are lost by a blunder... but yes, I agree with the point that you're making.
Even at a low level the opening advantage matters, almost everyone has a better score with white.
Dec 11, 2013
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macer75 wrote:
BMeck wrote:
Very few of us on this site can use an opening "advantage" to win. Most games are lost by a tactic... not the opening you play. Chess is chess. With that said, play what you are comfortable playing.
Actually, I would argue that most games are lost by a blunder... but yes, I agree with the point that you're making.
Well if you missed the tactic its a blunder lol
I think BMeck is talking about the advantage of playing one opening vs another, rather than the inhernet opening advantage in playing white.
BMeck wrote:
macer75 wrote:
BMeck wrote:
Very few of us on this site can use an opening "advantage" to win. Most games are lost by a tactic... not the opening you play. Chess is chess. With that said, play what you are comfortable playing.
Actually, I would argue that most games are lost by a blunder... but yes, I agree with the point that you're making.
Well if you missed the tactic its a blunder lol
But when you blunder it's not always because you missed a tactic (for ex. staight out dropping a piece).
Dec 11, 2013
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Scottrf wrote:
Even at a low level the opening advantage matters, almost everyone has a better score with white.
We are talking about two different things. I am not saying first move advantage, I am talking about "busted" openings being alright at our level
Well, if a busted opening gives away your advantage I'd say it's not alright. Of course there are more swings backwards and forwards than at the top level, but not giving away even a small advantage matters.
Dec 11, 2013
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Scottrf wrote:
Well, if a busted opening gives away your advantage I'd say it's not alright. Of course there are more swings backwards and forwards than at the top level, but not giving away even a small advantage matters.
Most players have no clue they have just given away their "advantage"
macer75 wrote:
I think BMeck is talking about the advantage of playing one opening vs another, rather than the inhernet opening advantage in playing white.
I think its a pretty fine line of difference if you say that, between amateurs, moving first is an advantage but the opening itself isnt.
It's like if you compare two terrible steeplechasers. Of course the races may be decided by someone clattering a hurdle, but that's not to say that it doesn't matter that someone gets to start 10m ahead.
Dec 11, 2013
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#39
Ubik42 wrote:
macer75 wrote:
I think BMeck is talking about the advantage of playing one opening vs another, rather than the inhernet opening advantage in playing white.
I think its a pretty fine line of difference if you say that, between amateurs, moving first is an advantage but the opening itself isnt.
That is exactly what I am saying.
I dont know about my fellow amateurs out there, but I have certainly won and lost games right out of the opening. It matters. Lots of stuff can matter.
I used to play the modern opening OTB, I gave up on it, but before I did I played and never understood it properly, and by around move 12-15 I would wind up in an utterly passive lost position. It wasnt missed tactics, it was just not knowing what to do with it.
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