If you don't like them, I heard Seirawan's winning chess books are pretty good. How do you practise this? The tactics trainer and daily puzzle of are pretty good, the chess mentor too. If I compare that to my opening study nowadays, the foremost difference is that nowadays I can grasp the ideas of a new opening much faster, simply because I spot the tactics much faster, understand the strategic ideas much faster, and evaluate the resulting endgames much faster. Years ago when I was a much worse player than now, I tried studying new openings as well. What I think you actually need to do is practice your middlegame, ie tactics & strategy, and your endgame. I read it like this: regardless of what opening i try, i end up making mistakes! everytime i try new things, i end up making mistakes! Which would be the best opening to use as a new player? everytime i try new things, i end up making mistakes!Įspecially to the higher rated bunch of you, how on earth did you get that high rating? I suppose you read tons of opening books when you were a new player, and that gradually improved your play to the level you are at now? Qc1 Qe5 51.What I find disturbing here is that noone actually seems to have bothered to read the first post. gxh4 Qxh4 Dreev - Khalifman, Kirovabad 1984)ĥ. The Mieses idea, which is now seen as one of the best ways of meeting an early flank thrust of this sort in the fianchetto position.Ĥ. Rce2 Kc6 0-1 Hartston,W-Mariotti,S/Skopje 1972. The h-pawn advance had been played several times following first 3. I like his title, since it highlights the fact that many of these ideas come not from 'predecessors' but from imaginative youngsters.

This accelerated h-pawn push line is discussed by Maxim Notkin in SOS 2 in an article titled 'When I Was Young' (28-37). Qd2= Schlosser-Almasi, German Team Ch 1998.ġ1. Ne3 Rb1 0-1 Noroozi,A-Tomashevsky,E/Denizli TUR 2003ħ. The 'classical' response to a premature flank attack is to fight back in the center, as John Watson points out in his discussion of this game in 'Chess Strategy in Action' (p. Ng5 h4 Forster - Bernstein, Manhattan - Marshall Match 1975, given in Sidney Bernstein's 'Combat: My 50 Years at the Chessboard.' The idea o f a rapid h-pawn advance for Black has long been conceivable, as shown by this game: 6. In 'Ideas Behind Modern Chess Openings: Black,' Gary Lane calls this 'An aggressive twist in this old, established line' that allows Black 'to keep in hand the possibility of. Several games reach the line via the interesting move order 1.

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