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Over and underrated

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
Everyone "does" openings. πŸ˜•
I don't, I get right to the endgame starting with move numero uno. πŸ˜›

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
I don't, I get right to the endgame starting with move numero uno. πŸ˜›
You didn't when you played Black against my Fried Liver. πŸ˜›

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Against 1.e4

Underrated
English opening.
Pirc.
Russian.
French.

Overrated
Berlin defence (I've never had any problems. Perhaps things are different at GM level ).
Najdorf (other sicilians cause me more truble, since I'm not usel to them).

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
You didn't when you played Black against my Fried Liver. πŸ˜›
Hardly fair SG. You started from here. Game 10271881


CP never had the chance to go for the ending. πŸ˜‰

You could say The Fried Liver Attack is a tad over-rated.
Players think the White attack plays itself and wins all the time.
On here (from the above position and not counting SG's flukey win).

White wins: 969
Draws: 74
Black wins: 616

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Originally posted by greenpawn34
Hardly fair SG. You started from here. Game 10271881

[fen]r1bqkb1r/ppp2Npp/2n5/3np3/2B5/8/PPPP1PPP/RNBQK2R b KQkq - 0 6[/fen]
CP never had the chance to go for the ending. πŸ˜‰

You could say The Fried Liver Attack is a tad over-rated.
Players think the White attack plays itself and wins all the time.
On here (from the above position and not counting SG's flukey win).

White wins: 969
Draws: 74
Black wins: 616
His statement was correct, but we did get into an ending of sorts, I just failed to win it. Here's the counterpart to the game Game 10271882 we played a set piece FLA match, one game with each color, white won both games. Many theorists feel the FLA is a win for black... theory is only as good as the practitioners. πŸ™‚


Originally posted by ChessPraxis
His statement was correct, but we did get into an ending of sorts, I just failed to win it. Here's the counterpart to the game Game 10271882 we played a set piece FLA match, one game with each color, white won both games. Many theorists feel the FLA is a win for black... theory is only as good as the practitioners. πŸ™‚
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Thinks it was an endgame because he centralized his King. πŸ™„

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
Everyone "does" openings. πŸ˜•
Methinks I once done been did in a opening.

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Originally posted by SwissGambit
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Thinks it was an endgame because he centralized his King. πŸ™„
"My King likes to go for a walk." -Steinitz

You have to admit, it ended the game. πŸ˜›

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Originally posted by ChessPraxis
"My King likes to go for a walk." -Steinitz

You have to admit, it ended the game. πŸ˜›
Every opening I have tried is over-rated and every
opening my opponent uses is under-rated.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Colle is the most underrated, Scicilian defences to the king pawn the most overrated.
I have been trying the Colle, so far I have been doing good with it.

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Originally posted by bikingviking
Against 1.e4

Underrated
English opening.
Pirc.
Russian.
French.

Overrated
Berlin defence (I've never had any problems. Perhaps things are different at GM level ).
Najdorf (other sicilians cause me more truble, since I'm not usel to them).
I have a book on the Pirc. I have probably played that and center counter more then anything else as black on blitz games.

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Originally posted by RBHILL
I have been trying the Colle, so far I have been doing good with it.
Colle is good place to start if you want to play queens pawn, but you need to know when to abandon it for something sharper.

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Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Colle is good place to start if you want to play queens pawn, but you need to know when to abandon it for something sharper.
I would want to find about a bakers dozen more sharper. Only one would get so boring to play 1000's of times. I don't know how people do that and not get bored? I play this one person blitz and all he opens with is c4 and e5 as black.