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soccer14 05-Jun-10, 10:21	Repertoire of Openings In order to play a good game, you need several openings. I was wondering if anyone wanted to start a thread on opening repertoires for all the players. Just name the opening in the title, and describe the first 10 moves. That way we can all be experienced in the art of openings. The idea is for everyone to put two or three of their best openings, and at the end there should be 30 openings with descriptions. Players can then select a dozen and learn to use them.
soccer14 05-Jun-10, 10:22	Bishops Gambit In the bishops gambit, you start off by playing e4 as white. Black will usually meet that pawn in the middle with e5. Then you play c3, which provides your Queen with the opportunity to move left. Your King's bishop and your Queen now cover half the middle of the board. Your final move is d4, which frees your Queen's bishop. Black will probably execute his or her own opneings during that time. Once the opening is complete, you top it of with Nf3, which now develops a knight and controls the middle of the board.
easy19 05-Jun-10, 11:22	My best openings that i use most.. As white 1 Dunst (Sleipner, Heinrichsen 1.Nc3 that usually transposes in the Novosibirsk opening 2...c5 2 Reti Opening 1 Nf3 hoping for a king Indian like position 3 Queen pawn game 1.d4 hoping for A declined queens gambit As black 4 Dutch Defense 1. d4 f5 5 Alekhine's defence 1.e5 Nf6 as sharp as possible 6 English , symmetrical variation 1. c4 c5 As i say English opening always go symmetrical i can go deeper into these openings but there are so many variations that it is perhaps better to use the database and let the moves there inspire you... Nr 2 3 and 6 are specially good for players under the 1500 rating marker the moves are Say to learn and it gives you almost always a good starting position..
untateve 05-Jun-10, 11:42	I tend to use only two openings because I don't have the time to study openings. I like the Reti (Nf3) because it is so flexible and with Black, I favor the Modern (1...g6, 2...Bg7). Again, the Modern is pretty flexible in responding to most of White's opening lines. I've been playing with the Queen's gambit and the Slav lately (thanks to the tourney run by this club). There are too many variations to think about in both the Reti and the Modern (Robatsch) to try and list them. However, I pretty much start every game I play as Black with the first two moves listed above.
sccadams 07-Jun-10, 22:31	Openings My favorite as white is the Scotch: 1. e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 Works reasonably well against both King's pawn and Sicilian openings. As black I play 1...c5 mostly, though I occasionally mix things up with a French defense or King's pawn opening.
grege79 09-Jul-10, 02:46	The English What are peoples thoughts on the English opening? I am going to give it a run for a while as kings is starting to feel stale.
antagonistknight 09-Jul-10, 05:14	It is similar to the Queen's Pawn openings in that it usually leads to a positional game, and can sometimes transpose into some of the Queen's Gambit lines. A very solid opening for those that do not like the Queen or King pawn openings. There are a few tricky lines if black knows what he/she is doing, but it is that way with most openings.
ionadowman 09-Jul-10, 17:20	For years... ... In OTB play, I played the English (1.c4) something like 80% of the time, varying occasionally by the Three Knights' Opening (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Nc3). Even when I started varying the game more, I played the English against any opponent I feared, or for important games. I had a lot of success with the English in those days. My record with it on GK hasn't been quite so wonderful, however, having been badly outplayed with it on at least two occasions. The English tends to be less well-known than the 1.e4 and 1.d4 lines. The pressures upon Black are less, but White has a mortgage on the d5-square, and can often build up an attack on the Q-side. I did not worry about transpositions. I was surprised how often opponents would stary into a Maroczy-Bind Siciian; and I was happy enough to play the White side of a King's Indian defence. I was never very comfortable with transpositions into Queen's Gambit lines (or things that looked similar) that can arise after 1.c4 e6 or 1,c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6. I don't know why, because I did OK in such lines. The switch to 1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 ... was less successful, though I fondly recall an 11-move win with it at Top Board vs 'Polonia' in a Business House competition back in 1976. As Black, I played the French Defence, after deciding that my knowledge of the Najdorf Sicilian was never quite enough for serious competition. In New Zealand, at that time at least, by far the most popular line against the French was the Tarrasch: 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2. Against 3.Nc3 I much prefer the Winawer (I've played that a lot on GK with fair success). Against the Tarrasch, I played the Guimard line (3...Nc6). This has its dark side, but I didn't play the thing in order to get in an early ...e5. Rather, I played it as a sort of Owen Defence, 'fiachettoing' the Queen's Bishop at b7 (or occasionally a6). That line served me well for years. Against weaker opposition, and by way of a change, I played Latvian gambits and Schliemann Defences to the Ruy Lopez. Against 1.d4 I played the King's Indian or the Modern Benoni, depending on mood. This was a very narrow repertoire, and had I played more often than I did, it would not have been enough. But even at my most active, I played only a few months in any given year, mostly club games and the occasional tournament. I've never played in the New Zealand Chess Congress (where the NZ Champs are held). By the time I could afford the time and money, I was more interested in spending it on other things. So I was always relatively unknown...

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