Originally posted by OmegaStargliderSomeone once quipped that "a gambit is when you give up a pawn for the sake of getting a lost game."
what r good openings for white and black
how can i counter that damned gambits?
thanks in advance
I think playing gambits is fun and I usually win when I play them in quick games (e.g. G/5).
A player was once asked why he never sacrificed his pieces, and he responded: "I prefer to sacrifice my opponent's pieces!"
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People with very low ratings get way too concerned about choosing openings. For a low- level player, an opening is the first 2-10 moves, not a game of chess, and assuming you don't fall into a trap forcing you to give up a queen or something, there will be plenty of opportunties for both sides well into the endgame. As someone else said, concentrate on playing by principles rather than playing by memorising opening lines.
As far as gambits go, anytime your opponent offers you material, whether it's the opening, middle, or endgame; step back, try to understand why your opponent is offering you the material, and if you can't, then take it! At best, you are up material. At worst, you get punished and you learn a new chess lesson.
Originally posted by bosintangI agree wholeheartedly. So many beginning players get so caught up in the opening, thinking in some deluded way that if he just finds the right opening he will have a better chessgame. Balloney.
People with very low ratings get way too concerned about choosing openings. For a low- level player, an opening is the first 2-10 moves, not a game of chess, and assuming you don't fall into a trap forcing you to give up a queen or something, there will be plenty of opportunties for both sides well into the endgame. As someone else said, concentrate on ...[text shortened]... ! At best, you are up material. At worst, you get punished and you learn a new chess lesson.
I speak from experience. For me it was the Pirc Defense. I studied this response as black so much that I dreamed about it. Every so often I would have stellar results while playing it, but I never understood why. I was only regurgitating memorized moves and never truly grasping the implications of the positions. All anyone had to do was step out of line (play a non-book move) and I was lost. I whined that the book didn't tell me what to do in this situation or against that mov--for some reason not realizing that to play the game properly I was required to think.
One day I had that epiphany. I put away all my opening books that I spent too much money on (even used). I started playing e4 every game as white and responding naturally with black, thinking about the principles mentioned in this thread and others. I messed up a few times at first but gradually gained a feel for the opening, and then was able to build my own plans for success. And my game dramatically improved, and improved, and improved again.
I think that I am finally ready to start looking at those openings again, but only because I understand the game better and what the opening is really supposed to do for the game as a whole.