28 Jun 07
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Can you help me in making my summer opening repertoire?! I am having enough of the Najdorf, Queen pawn positional subtleties. I want to give my brain a little bit of rest. So are there simple tactical openings without hurting variations, with lot of exchanges, very open games? Except Italian or Ruy Lopez, I want to rest of them too 🙂
28 Jun 07
Originally posted by wakchessdragonthose two things are sort of mutually exclusive.
... So are there simple tactical openings without hurting variations,
just develop fast, seek activity & initiative, avoid exchanging (unless you really have to), take risks, and soon you'll have a tactical nightmare in your hands which no human can solve, no matter what opening it was. just keep adding gasoline into the fire.
if you've ever seen larry christiansen 'doodle' on the board while commenting, you know what I mean. the guy can detonate any stale position into a tactical delirium just in a couple of moves.
28 Jun 07
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Originally posted by wormwoodYes I know some of his annotations, very interesting 🙂
those two things are sort of mutually exclusive.
just develop fast, seek activity & initiative, avoid exchanging (unless you really have to), take risks, and soon you'll have a tactical nightmare in your hands which no human can solve, no matter what opening it was. just keep adding gasoline into the fire.
if you've ever seen larry christiansen 'doodl y can detonate any stale position into a tactical delirium just in a couple of moves.
The problem is that I made mistake following the openings databases too much, 20 moves in depth and I am not that good player to understand all the subtle moves in Poisoned Pawn variation. It kills some of the joy of playing. (for now of course, when I reach say 1900 maybe I will be able to follow all those subtle strategical moves)
Maybe I should left opening book sonner, I doubt that opponent with my strength will punish this severly. My goal is to improve tactically first, then strategically, with CTS, CT art software and good tactical books. And after that, next year to study more openings and strategy.
So I think I will switch to open agressive openings. And like you said with risks and initiative.
