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wrecking_ball 13-Jul-14, 20:37	Best/worse openings for black/white(video's and stats)... I have mentioned many times in the past in this club and other forums some of the best openings and opening defenses for white and black,in a statistical format.Rather than chat away,page after page and post charts again,I have found a few very good video's on this subject,including the last two link's which lists the WORSE openings for white AND black in history.Pay particular attention to those % stats!!As a beginner,you may not find stats very interesting,but as you progress up the rating ladder(hopefully!)....you will actually NEED to understand which openings by name are the best and which ones you should probably avoid on either side of the board.This is what I call the 3 level breakdown: "level 1" breakdown is possessing the proper knowledge of the openings strengths and weakness's as tabulated from 1000's of high level games over the decades.Level "2" would then be to assimilate and dissect the specific opening by subvariational line statistics.So,for example,if a Ruy Lopez is rated at a specifically good win rate for black...which specific variation of the Ruy Lopez yields the higher or highest win rate by statistical play from blacks perspective?Berlin?Cozio?In the open variations,which ones?The Exchange Var?Arkangel?Then there is what I call the 3rd level for very advanced players which would be to research/isolate/define/study very specific games by specific high level players and GM's(especially up to date cutting edge games by the top players and world champions) and pick out very VERY specific game's and lines(or new lines) in those game variations that have had a very high win rate,especially in recent months.And if not recent,then by studying many of the sub footnotes in books new and old(even MCO-15). Summary: Level 1: Possessing the proper knowledge of the openings strengths and weakness's as tabulated from 1000's of high level games over the decades. Level 2: To assimilate and dissect the specific opening by subvariational line statistics. Level 3: Research/isolate/define/study very specific games by specific high level players and GM's(especially up to date cutting edge games by the top players and world champions) and pick out very VERY specific game's to use,book footnotes.... www.diy-review.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com You may very well find some of these stats interesting or a bit shocking!Perhaps you may discover WHY you are not doing that well in an opening or defense,just on stats!!!It is possible!Stats are there for a reason.They are PROVEN resources and records of countless games played by humans vs humans, computers vs humans and computers vs computers. When you have mastered at least 2 of the 3 levels above and combine that with a high quality opening book and understand how to define the tree variations and "tune" those trees(in a better opening book),then you will have a very high recipe for success in your winning chess repertoire. I hope you find the video's above interesting.When you have the time,check them out.Some of the higher rated players in this club already know much of what is in those video's,but certainly not the players that are in the lower spectrum of the rating levels. All of this is an important part of that "theory thing"I discuss in this club.Playing blindly and not caring about these stats is probably one of the major reasons(out of a few other reasons) that you have always stagnated at a lower rating level and will probably REMAIN at that lower level your entire life.So,its up to you to buckle down and force yourself to get better.It will not simply come naturally unless your a chess prodigy...and if your were that,you would not be reading this!Others say to themselves...well,I really do not care to get better at this chess game,although it would be nice.Others say...who gives a damn?Well,I say the choice is yours.You must take a true concerted effort to get better,not just "wish it"to happen! WB

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13-Jul-14, 20:37

Best/worse openings for black/white(video's and stats)...

I have mentioned many times in the past in this club and other forums some of the best openings and opening defenses for white and black,in a statistical format.Rather than chat away,page after page and post charts again,I have found a few very good video's on this subject,including the last two link's which lists the WORSE openings for white AND black in history.Pay particular attention to those % stats!!As a beginner,you may not find stats very interesting,but as you progress up the rating ladder(hopefully!)....you will actually NEED to understand which openings by name are the best and which ones you should probably avoid on either side of the board.This is what I call the 3 level breakdown: "level 1" breakdown is possessing the proper knowledge of the openings strengths and weakness's as tabulated from 1000's of high level games over the decades.Level "2" would then be to assimilate and dissect the specific opening by subvariational line statistics.So,for example,if a Ruy Lopez is rated at a specifically good win rate for black...which specific variation of the Ruy Lopez yields the higher or highest win rate by statistical play from blacks perspective?Berlin?Cozio?In the open variations,which ones?The Exchange Var?Arkangel?Then there is what I call the 3rd level for very advanced players which would be to research/isolate/define/study very specific games by specific high level players and GM's(especially up to date cutting edge games by the top players and world champions) and pick out very VERY specific game's and lines(or new lines) in those game variations that have had a very high win rate,especially in recent months.And if not recent,then by studying many of the sub footnotes in books new and old(even MCO-15).

Summary:

Level 1:
Possessing the proper knowledge of the openings strengths and weakness's as tabulated from 1000's of high level games over the decades.

Level 2:
To assimilate and dissect the specific opening by subvariational line statistics.

Level 3:
Research/isolate/define/study very specific games by specific high level players and GM's(especially up to date cutting edge games by the top players and world champions) and pick out very VERY specific game's to use,book footnotes....

www.diy-review.com

www.youtube.com

www.youtube.com

www.youtube.com

You may very well find some of these stats interesting or a bit shocking!Perhaps you may discover WHY you are not doing that well in an opening or defense,just on stats!!!It is possible!Stats are there for a reason.They are PROVEN resources and records of countless games played by humans vs humans, computers vs humans and computers vs computers.

When you have mastered at least 2 of the 3 levels above and combine that with a high quality opening book and understand how to define the tree variations and "tune" those trees(in a better opening book),then you will have a very high recipe for success in your winning chess repertoire.

I hope you find the video's above interesting.When you have the time,check them out.Some of the higher rated players in this club already know much of what is in those video's,but certainly not the players that are in the lower spectrum of the rating levels.

All of this is an important part of that "theory thing"I discuss in this club.Playing blindly and not caring about these stats is probably one of the major reasons(out of a few other reasons) that you have always stagnated at a lower rating level and will probably REMAIN at that lower level your entire life.So,its up to you to buckle down and force yourself to get better.It will not simply come naturally unless your a chess prodigy...and if your were that,you would not be reading this!Others say to themselves...well,I really do not care to get better at this chess game,although it would be nice.Others say...who gives a damn?Well,I say the choice is yours.You must take a true concerted effort to get better,not just "wish it"to happen!

WB

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