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19 Dec 11
I've been looking and playing some french (rubinstein) and caro games as black on this site and Chess.com but unsure if it suites or like them. I tend to go for a QGD against 1 d4 so both kind of marry with this. Any thoughts/ideas on these openings, and a defense against the advance/exchange variations?
Or should I look for another opening
19 Dec 11
Originally posted by wormwoodFair enough but I have found some positions I didn't like because I didn't understand them. Then after some work, I understood them better and got to like them more.
if you like it, play it.
if you don't like it, don't play it.
if you don't like it, but can't avoid it, study it.
But I also see your point. It's easier to study/play those lines that interest us. This should play a big part.
The Caro is very positional, solid, but a bit passive. The French is a tricky opening to play against. Do you want to face a winawer, The Alekhine-Chatard Attack etc?
The Slav pawn structure has stuff common to the Caro also.
p.s. you could just play the Scando and save yourself a bit of theory 😉
20 Dec 11
Originally posted by plopzillaJust a side note, but I had no idea that the Scandinavian and Alekhine's Defense were such close sister openings until a friend of mine brought his Scandinavian book to the club and I thumbed through it.
The Caro is very positional, solid, but a bit passive. The French is a tricky opening to play against. Do you want to face a winawer, The Alekhine-Chatard Attack etc?
The Slav pawn structure has stuff common to the Caro also.
p.s. you could just play the Scando and save yourself a bit of theory 😉
A whole slew of middlegame positions were such that, if I saw them on a board, I would have assumed they began with 1. e4 Nf6.
Sometimes our desire to put a name on a chess position limits our perception rather than clarifying it.