I use 'sharp' to describe an opening that has a tactical base.
Sharp openings = Latvians, Evans Gambits. Traxler (Ultra sharp).
"Unclear" it was players use when they don't have a clue what is going on.
"Deep" usually tags onto a well rearched opening. Dragon Sicilians
and Lopez's were you can go deep by following 21 moves, or more, of theory.
"Bust" an opening line (usually a gambit) tha has been refuted.
"Zuggers" no matter what you do you are lost.
patzer/rabbit/fish/duffer - unkind terms for a weak chess player, a beginner.
"A Fat Lady" is often used to describe a terrible chess player.
yeah tactics are what makes an opening sharp, and its about danger level. a faulty move in a sharp opening means death, in a passive opening the opponent may just gain a head start on their strategical plan.
ps, one thing you have to be really careful of is "drawish" at a low level, id say no opening/passive middlegame position is drawish. its only really talking about gm level. at a lower level its either a draw or not, or you could propose it be one. but in lower level chess their is too many mistakes to be made in the rest of the game to say its a draw in the opening.
My favorite chess terms:
zugzwang (most beautiful word from the otherwise horrible guttaral sounding German), meaning: you have the disadvantage of making the first next move in the end game. If you would not have to move, you would have the advantage (or at least be able to draw), but just because you are the first to move you loose.
Poisened pawn, originally used for the Sicilian defence, Najdorf variation, meaning that an unprotected pawn is used as a bait to lure the opponenent into a trap.
Swindle (from the German "Schwindler" ), means that you win from an obviously lost position. When you are clearly losing the game, start to find something that looks difficult to calculate or at least strange enough to make your opponent thinking that he is not really winning the game and starts making bad moves, that loses him the game.
Originally posted by irontigranwould you suggest any passive openings? or openings that arn't sharp? theirs some good chess players at the club i go to? when i they play the sicilian or ruy lopez they'll say the game is sharp out loud and i'll lose these games most of the time. so i got to try something different.
yeah tactics are what makes an opening sharp, and its about danger level. a faulty move in a sharp opening means death, in a passive opening the opponent may just gain a head start on their strategical plan.
ps, one thing you have to be really careful of is "drawish" at a low level, id say no opening/passive middlegame position is drawish. its only rea ...[text shortened]... heir is too many mistakes to be made in the rest of the game to say its a draw in the opening.
Originally posted by jeroen1975I vehemently disagree with your outrageous statement.
My favorite chess terms:
zugzwang (most beautiful word from the otherwise horrible guttaral sounding German), meaning: you have the disadvantage of making the first next move in the end game. If you would not have to move, you would have the advantage (or at least be able to draw), but just because you are the first to move you loose.
Poisened pawn, ...[text shortened]... g that he is not really winning the game and starts making bad moves, that loses him the game.
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German is such a ncie language. 😀
Originally posted by AlzheimerHey! I work with German's every weekday, so I know what I am talking about. Some of them even try to master the really sexy sounding Dutch language, but somehow their tongue gets tied up in their mouths. 🙂
I vehemently disagree with your outrageous statement.
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German is such a ncie language. 😀
Anyways, I was just making a very cheap joke. No offense meant. I really do like zugzwang. I try to use the word as much as I can.
Tschüss 😉
Originally posted by jeroen1975No offence taken!!!
Hey! I work with German's every weekday, so I know what I am talking about. Some of them even try to master the really sexy sounding Dutch language, but somehow their tongue gets tied up in their mouths. 🙂
Anyways, I was just making a very cheap joke. No offense meant. I really do like zugzwang. I try to use the word as much as I can.
Tschüss 😉
Some of my colleagues are South African and they speak afrikaans with each other. It's funny because if you speak english and german you can actually understand quite a lot. 😉
