I have to disagree with you on this. E4 does lead to a lot of sharp games where there can be a lot of prep or book moves out there but if you're 650 and playing a 650 neither of you know 10 moves of theory in the Najdorf Sicilian. You don't really need to be prepared for all those potential responses to be able to play E4 because regardless of what your opponent plays... they don't know what they're doing either. If they did they wouldn't be 650.
Thanks! I guess it's part of the learning curve to take these criteria (your ELO (< 2000, >2000), your style/mood (tactical/ aggressive versus strategic/positional), the opponent's ELO relative to your own) and build a matrix of openings / lines? I wonder if there is a consensus about such a categorisation, and whether it would be publically available? Or is it an open secret that you just have to find your own way? (I'm doing a light review of all the main openings to get just this kind of sense of them, before focussing on a few).
@@nickfanzo it is because at upper intermediate level(1400 Elo-1600 Elo) players are experts at e4 or d4 so I like to take chances by playing c4 as many many not be familiar with english and make a mistake
I have to disagree with you on this. E4 does lead to a lot of sharp games where there can be a lot of prep or book moves out there but if you're 650 and playing a 650 neither of you know 10 moves of theory in the Najdorf Sicilian. You don't really need to be prepared for all those potential responses to be able to play E4 because regardless of what your opponent plays... they don't know what they're doing either. If they did they wouldn't be 650.
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Thanks! I guess it's part of the learning curve to take these criteria (your ELO (< 2000, >2000), your style/mood (tactical/ aggressive versus strategic/positional), the opponent's ELO relative to your own) and build a matrix of openings / lines? I wonder if there is a consensus about such a categorisation, and whether it would be publically available? Or is it an open secret that you just have to find your own way? (I'm doing a light review of all the main openings to get just this kind of sense of them, before focussing on a few).
The best move c4
Classical English
Why is that?
@@nickfanzo it is because at upper intermediate level(1400 Elo-1600 Elo) players are experts at e4 or d4 so I like to take chances by playing c4 as many many not be familiar with english and make a mistake
@@ayushkashyap1452 got it, I just started this month, and I’m just a 684. Thanks.
If you're just copy pasting systems, then your not going to get better