Originally posted by vivify
Just when I thought the Queen's Gambit was unstoppable (because I haven't found a counter for it), here comes this opponent, with a great answer for it. The Queen's Gambit is typically the ultimate opening for taking control of the center, but black has an unexpected counter.
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[FEN "rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP ...[text shortened]... most likely would've lost, if not for his mistake on move #20. }
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Whoa!
stop at:
"1.d4 d5 2.c4 { I find that my opponents have the most difficult time against the Queen's Gambit, whether they decline or accept it. Not this guy. } 2...Nf6 3.c5 ..."
THAT is not the Queen's Gambit.
That is the London System, a strategically-flawed variation stemming From the Queen's Gambit, which may work in blitz chess, but not in correspondence chess.
In fact, it should not even work in blitz chess, giving up as it does tension in the center.
Tension should always be built and maintained in blitz, and it's not a bad idea to utilize it in classical chess as well.
In general, whatever the opening, at every state of the game, as Dearing writes,
"the way to beat your opponent is to set him as many problems as possible, . . .
and so many problems that the intensity of the problems reaches a level that exceeds his problem-solving ability."
An approach to winning in the Queen's Gambit, or any opening is to give your opponent as much to think about as possible, making every effort to burden him with decisions, so as to induce his looking for the best move at each turn by presenting him with an array of choices, especially, as one of the players here puts it, in "tight, strategic battles with many strong candidate moves."
You want to win the QG, you build & maintain the board tension, rather than simplifying the position.
A great counter to the Queen's Gambit
16 Dec '12 01:41
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