New answers tagged opening
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Best Repetoire Building Tools
It depends on what you mean with "best".
ChessBase
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Can't understand where is my fault in this game
Follow the opening principles and calculate!!
The root of your downfall is that you don't follow the opening principles. You need to learn and apply them.
It took you 12 moves to clear your back rank, ...
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London system move order nuances Qb6 without Nc6
I think White reacted well when the Black Queen came out. As mentioned by koedem, playing Nf3 earlier, specifically 4.Nf3 in both variations, might make sense.
From Black's perspective, 4..Nc6 and 4.....
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London system move order nuances Qb6 without Nc6
When White is force to play Qc1 he simply develops with Nf3, Be2, h3 and the Bf5 is in trouble after g4. White can play g4 because the black Queen is on the queenside, I guess.
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Best Repetoire Building Tools
I use Chess Openings Wizard in a way I can improve my opening knowledge. My method:
Enter the right moves (your personal choice) in Chess Openigs Wizard.
Do the drill-excercises to learn the moves by ...
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What openings fit the tastes of a positional player?
You can go with ruy lopez with white and sicillian defence caro-kann for black, these openings have a positional taste in them, in the opening phase your main objective is to prepare your pieces for ...
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Opening name change of one game at Chess.com
Before a sufficient number of moves is played, the exact name of the opening cannot be determined. And the key term to answer your question is transpositions:
... is a sequence of moves that results ...
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Can't understand where is my fault in this game
The early game wasn't too accurate but the problem doesn't really come from there. You placed your queen on f3 way too early and without a clear purpose, then by putting your bishop on e3 and knight ...
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In a side line of the Italian Game: Classical Variation, Giuoco Pianissimo, why is blacks a point ahead here?
You don't say who has the move, but after trying to reconstruct the early moves I think it is White. I would certainly rather have Black, although I am not quite sure by how much, and I'm not just ...
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Can't understand where is my fault in this game
Your game was an attempt and a considerable battle, however, there were several inaccuracies and errors in the game.
During the start of the game, move No. 4 was an error as per my vision. You pushed ...
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