Re:A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
by bluGill on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @04:27PM
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I disagree. If there are two 1700 players, the opening player is only better if the game goes according to the prepared moves. A good tactical player who realizes you are going via prep will make a stupid move and pull you out of book. From this point on the tactical player has the advantage because he has experience defending random stuff, while the opening player has to figure out why the move so stupid it isn't even in his book is bad and exploit that. Of course if the stupid move is in the opening book then the opening player is better, but that is unlikely.
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Re:A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
by Oreb on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:35AM
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> A good tactical player who realizes you are going via prep will make a stupid move and pull you out of book.
That only works against a badly prepared player. Learning an opening isn't just about memorising moves, it is also about understanding why the moves -- both your own and your opponent's -- are good. If you have studied an opening well, you will understand why a stupid move is stupid and be able to punish it. Of course you may still end up messing things up and lose the game later on, but you should be able to emerge from the opening with an advantage.
Re:A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
by iamcreasy on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @05:06PM
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> pull you out of book.
Openings do not necessary break here. They are meant to take advantage of a situation by a series of branched off movement. If you are not making good enough guess about why a particular opening is played - making one move to pull somebody out of the book won't do much good.