tacitical openings vs postional openings!?

i find that im a better postional player then a tacitical player. for a while i was playing the sicilian but i found it too tactical and always ended up getting into problems. my favorite openings now are the queens gambit as white and the petroff as black. i find these 2 openings maybe less creative but also more postional (also grandmasters would call these 2 more drawish then most openings but at my level i hardly ever end up in draws so it isn't a big concern). would that be a correct assumption?

and what are some other positional openings?

The Queen's Indian is also quite positional as a defense for black. The Nimzoindian has only a few sharp lines.

Originally posted by Arrak
i find that im a better postional player then a tacitical player. for a while i was playing the sicilian but i found it too tactical and always ended up getting into problems. my favorite openings now are the queens gambit as white and the petroff as black. i find these 2 openings maybe less creative but also more postional (also grandmasters would call the ...[text shortened]... concern). would that be a correct assumption?

and what are some other positional openings?

Originally posted by Nowakowski
as black 1. c6
as white stay with your QG and you'll always be in positions you feel pretty solid in

-GIN

Originally posted by Nowakowski
as black 1. c6
as white stay with your QG and you'll always be in positions you feel pretty solid in

-GIN

Originally posted by Arrak
i find that im a better postional player then a tacitical player. for a while i was playing the sicilian but i found it too tactical and always ended up getting into problems. my favorite openings now are the queens gambit as white and the petroff as black. i find these 2 openings maybe less creative but also more postional (also grandmasters would call the ...[text shortened]... concern). would that be a correct assumption?

and what are some other positional openings?

Originally posted by Arrak
isnt c6 the caro kann? someone else told me that the caro kann was more of a postional opening... but it really depends because if white decides to play the advance variation this line is quite sharp and very tactical. so im not that sure that the caro kann is so postional. besides the advance variation if black avoids are most the other variations postional for the caro kann?

Originally posted by Nowakowski
Yes very positional. If its played against the QG it turns into the slav.
It's not really "very sharp" and black continually has chances to keep the game closed.

Black almost always has a better pawn structure as well. The Caro is also extremely sound...GM's play it still at the highest levels. (The Slav and Semi-Slav as well). Check into it a bit, its no slum.

-GIN

Originally posted by Arrak
so in other words if i was to play the caro id want to do everything not to let it to turn into the advance variation. because the advance variation looks even sharper then the sicilian...?

Virtually every opening I've played can have sharp lines. Major complications can arise out of nowhere, even in QGD, petroff. I've tried the ole "lets play the petroff and hope to draw against master level players". Well, all they need to do is sac a pawn or something (like the Nxf7 sacin Petroff) for counter play and it turns the "solid" opening into an unbalanced tactical jungle, WHICH REQUIRES VERY VERY PRECISE PLAY to refute.

IMO, I don't think shying away from certain openings because of tactical weakness is a good idea. You're handicapping yourself. In fact playing the sharper openings can be good practice.

Don't worry about which openings to play, just do tactical exercises and get better at tactics. It is impossible to chose openings and to avoid tactics completely, for example you can't dodge the advance variation of the caro, it's white's choice to play it. At your level I would just study tactics and not worry about the openings you play.

People are always recommended to play open games (e4 e5) when they start playing chess, because tactics are the most important thing

I'm also trying the Caro Kann now in a few games instead of the Sicilian, which is too open for me; I like closed Sicilian variations but in most games d4 is played and the pawn gets exchanged.

which of these openings are less tactical and have fewer complications for black. QG accepted or QG declined?

i have really like playing QG accepted (as black) for some reason.

Yeah - the queen's gambit accepted lines where you don't try to hold the pawn work too.

I'm sympathetic to this problem overall because I have to design my blitz repetoire this way. I'm a really bad blitz player compared to my strength at longer games. I miss too many tactics and try to aim for positions where even if you miss something you're not in too bad a shape. So I play things like c3 Sicilian and Catalan as white and nimzoindian as black in blitz.

Originally posted by Arrak
which of these openings are less tactical and have fewer complications for black. QG accepted or QG declined?

i have really like playing QG accepted (as black) for some reason.