Was does it take to play the sokolsky ?

take it easy there mister...

I must say I agree with tony, two openings are enough, but I'd add to the transposable 1.c4 1.d4 the Réti. Here you have three openings wich, apart from d4 don't requier much work for you to do, and are a good play. Now you have a suficient opening repertoire for all eternity.

well, yeap, I play f4 or c4, but they don't transpose normal, and what I love is halloween gambit and things like that.

I dunno about correct play but normally or usually folks who play the sokolsky achieve either french like pawn structures but reversed or taimanov sicilianish pawn structures reversed.The sokolsky might be right up your ally if you like the french as black or sicilian.

Originally posted by National Master Dale
I dunno about correct play but normally or usually folks who play the sokolsky achieve either french like pawn structures but reversed or taimanov sicilianish pawn structures reversed.The sokolsky might be right up your ally if you like the french as black or sicilian.

Massive bollocks.......'Sicilianish/Taimanov reversed structured? Sokolsky/French....black or white... let it be said that if Masters play it, then it must have a basic soundness.....You might even be a little bit better off playing something offbeat than the 'Norm'.

Todays opening of the day on chessgames.com is the santasierres folly
an almost 1b4 opening.