So far i have played very drawish openings over the board. I wanted to shift my focus to some dangerous opening lines where my opponent has to be very careful.
Any recommendations ? :)
Any recommendations ? :)
If it's dangerous for them, it's also dangerous for you. Try the King's Gambit. Risky but fun. They will never see it coming.
Grand prix attack
Many gambits have dangerous opening lines. But be aware: You sacrifice long-term advantage for short-term pressure on your opponent.
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I don't get you, I win because I play drawishly - my opponent eventually gets pissed-off and starts blundering, but, I've been checking openings for a Long time, I can tell you this:
1. Play 1.e4 - that way, your opponents will need to be careful.
Against Caro Kann:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJHE7elWk4
He's an IM, he teaches a GM, and he plays the Caro Kann himself, so he knows what he's talking about.
Against French, I play it myself, I think the best is against it is the Exchange Variation - you can attack the eneny king, even though you both castled kingside. I lose quite a lot against it, if I just copycat the moves.
Against Sicilian - choose your flavor, I had great success with simply Nf3, Bb4 or Bc4, 0-0, c3 with d4. - it has no name, your opponent can hardly move in the center.
If he plays 1...e5, you play 2.Nf3
Against the Petrov, you have a Cochcrane Gambit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fEV6pIbNY&t=670s
--- if he plays 2...Nc6, you play 3.Bc4,
-------if he plays either 3...Nf6 (Two Knights Defense) or 3...Bc5 (Italian Game), you play the Double (Scotch) Gambit Accepted
The Double Gambit Accepted | Equal Chances for White & Black in the Scotch Gambit | IM Alex Astaneh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb35_qa3yAM
----if he plays 2...Nf6 (Russian Defense), you can play a Cochrane Gambit.
---------if he plays 3...Bc5, you play 4...c3 followed by d4
---------if he plays 3...Nf6, you play 0-0
I know there's also 1...Nf6, Pirc, Scandinavian, Modern, Nimzowitsch, but I don't know... I'm a d4 player for 2 years now.
I myself play the following:
1. As White:1.d4,
if d5 then c4, if Nf6 then Nf3 (2.Nf3 - avoiding much theory, comp's best move, and not committing to c4 - exposing my king, you can play systems - Colle, Colle-Z, London, KIA.. etc, especially if your opponent plays e6 (blocking the light-squared bishop) and 0-0, which is pretty common, don't ask me why).
2. Against e4, French.
3. Against d4, QGD.
4. Against c4, e6 - transposing to a QGD, if he insists on not playing d4, I'll play d5-d4 myself - cramping his position.
5. Against anything else, a Black London System.
Against e4, if you want your opponent to be careful, I'd suggest the French Defense:
Against 1.e4, there are 4 openings who are computer-approved:
1...e5, Caro Kann, French, Sicilian. Sicilian and e5 takes too much memory, Caro Kann isn't your style, I believe, but who knows...
www.chesspersonality.com/
It really depends on how cheap you're willing to get in order to scare the opponents, the most solid gambits, you can call them openings, are Budapest Gambit, Benko Gambit, and Evans' Gambit. Ahoy Captain!
1. Play 1.e4 - that way, your opponents will need to be careful.
Against Caro Kann:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gJHE7elWk4
He's an IM, he teaches a GM, and he plays the Caro Kann himself, so he knows what he's talking about.
Against French, I play it myself, I think the best is against it is the Exchange Variation - you can attack the eneny king, even though you both castled kingside. I lose quite a lot against it, if I just copycat the moves.
Against Sicilian - choose your flavor, I had great success with simply Nf3, Bb4 or Bc4, 0-0, c3 with d4. - it has no name, your opponent can hardly move in the center.
If he plays 1...e5, you play 2.Nf3
Against the Petrov, you have a Cochcrane Gambit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6fEV6pIbNY&t=670s
--- if he plays 2...Nc6, you play 3.Bc4,
-------if he plays either 3...Nf6 (Two Knights Defense) or 3...Bc5 (Italian Game), you play the Double (Scotch) Gambit Accepted
The Double Gambit Accepted | Equal Chances for White & Black in the Scotch Gambit | IM Alex Astaneh
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb35_qa3yAM
----if he plays 2...Nf6 (Russian Defense), you can play a Cochrane Gambit.
---------if he plays 3...Bc5, you play 4...c3 followed by d4
---------if he plays 3...Nf6, you play 0-0
I know there's also 1...Nf6, Pirc, Scandinavian, Modern, Nimzowitsch, but I don't know... I'm a d4 player for 2 years now.
I myself play the following:
1. As White:1.d4,
if d5 then c4, if Nf6 then Nf3 (2.Nf3 - avoiding much theory, comp's best move, and not committing to c4 - exposing my king, you can play systems - Colle, Colle-Z, London, KIA.. etc, especially if your opponent plays e6 (blocking the light-squared bishop) and 0-0, which is pretty common, don't ask me why).
2. Against e4, French.
3. Against d4, QGD.
4. Against c4, e6 - transposing to a QGD, if he insists on not playing d4, I'll play d5-d4 myself - cramping his position.
5. Against anything else, a Black London System.
Against e4, if you want your opponent to be careful, I'd suggest the French Defense:
Against 1.e4, there are 4 openings who are computer-approved:
1...e5, Caro Kann, French, Sicilian. Sicilian and e5 takes too much memory, Caro Kann isn't your style, I believe, but who knows...
www.chesspersonality.com/
It really depends on how cheap you're willing to get in order to scare the opponents, the most solid gambits, you can call them openings, are Budapest Gambit, Benko Gambit, and Evans' Gambit. Ahoy Captain!
You are 1500. Im not trying to put you down or anything, just want to state a point.
There are many sharp openings, but most of them are double edged swords, and most of them are in the form of gambits. Meaning, you have to sacrifice material in order to enable your attack because you have extra tempos (since they were chopping up material). Thats just a fact, you will be behing material a good part of the game.
However, you will have a tempo or 2 of advantage for that material. Thats it. You have to show something for the lack of material. You will have to make something happen.
This is when your rating comes up. There is a chess topic that is called initiative. It is a broad topic, but in essence, talks about maintaining the tempo advantage, which means you have to be very precise, because the moment you lose that tempo or 2, you are just down material.
At your level, it is not a topic or skill that you have very developed, even i struggle with it.
So having those kinds of openings on your repertoire will be detrimental to your advance.
Im not telling you to not play such openings. As far as im concerned, thats the type of play you should do, because it forces you to be a better attacker, and hence, to be a better player. But it does imply high tactical or positional sense as a prerequisite which you probably dont have.
If you still want to procede. I would recommend you to study initiative first.
Then play e4, aim for the greek gift, fried liver, scotch gambit, evans gambit. But e4 is the move you are looking for, study the major gambits from there.
There are many sharp openings, but most of them are double edged swords, and most of them are in the form of gambits. Meaning, you have to sacrifice material in order to enable your attack because you have extra tempos (since they were chopping up material). Thats just a fact, you will be behing material a good part of the game.
However, you will have a tempo or 2 of advantage for that material. Thats it. You have to show something for the lack of material. You will have to make something happen.
This is when your rating comes up. There is a chess topic that is called initiative. It is a broad topic, but in essence, talks about maintaining the tempo advantage, which means you have to be very precise, because the moment you lose that tempo or 2, you are just down material.
At your level, it is not a topic or skill that you have very developed, even i struggle with it.
So having those kinds of openings on your repertoire will be detrimental to your advance.
Im not telling you to not play such openings. As far as im concerned, thats the type of play you should do, because it forces you to be a better attacker, and hence, to be a better player. But it does imply high tactical or positional sense as a prerequisite which you probably dont have.
If you still want to procede. I would recommend you to study initiative first.
Then play e4, aim for the greek gift, fried liver, scotch gambit, evans gambit. But e4 is the move you are looking for, study the major gambits from there.
In my opinion there are no Drawish Openings ... If you like positional Chess with agression The Gruenfeld is fine ... Benko Gambit gives nice pressure for the pawn but you still need to Study yourself COMPLETE GAMES with the idea of Learning many openings in order to choose Openings ... There are many Sharp variations as White & Black (Even in Openings such as The Petrov for example) that you need to Expose yourself to & be able to use as White & Black ... Learning Middlegames & Endings Tactics & Defence are ALL IMPORTANT so STUDY COMPLETE GAMES @HippoGonnaBiteYou
If I remember correctly, the late GM Lombardy once wrote that, at the amateur level, all openings offer excellent winning chances.
@HippoGonnaBiteYou said in #1:
> So far i have played very drawish openings over the board. I wanted to shift my focus to some dangerous opening lines where my opponent has to be very careful.
> Any recommendations ? :)
Hmm, where the opponent needs to be very careful? I guess the Greco Gambit is an aggressive choice, You will never have draws, and you just throw everything at the opponent to kill him (on the board, obviously). Or some other ones could be the Evans gambit, the Scotch gambit, the Vienna gambit, the Nakhmanson gambit (too much wild in my opinion) and the King's gambit. For Black, you haven't that various choices, but if you really want to gambit there's in the Modern Scandi 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 some cool gambits like the Icelandic gambit or the Portuguese gambit. Against 1.d4, I haven't much to suggest you except the Budapest gambit, the Benoni which looks like a gambit but you suffer a lack of space.
> So far i have played very drawish openings over the board. I wanted to shift my focus to some dangerous opening lines where my opponent has to be very careful.
> Any recommendations ? :)
Hmm, where the opponent needs to be very careful? I guess the Greco Gambit is an aggressive choice, You will never have draws, and you just throw everything at the opponent to kill him (on the board, obviously). Or some other ones could be the Evans gambit, the Scotch gambit, the Vienna gambit, the Nakhmanson gambit (too much wild in my opinion) and the King's gambit. For Black, you haven't that various choices, but if you really want to gambit there's in the Modern Scandi 1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Nf6 some cool gambits like the Icelandic gambit or the Portuguese gambit. Against 1.d4, I haven't much to suggest you except the Budapest gambit, the Benoni which looks like a gambit but you suffer a lack of space.
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