What's Your Favorite (Chess) Opening?

[brownprose]

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pero if white uses first the fianchetto.... mka develop pa ba gihapon faster ang white sa center??

I really have no idea. However, the key to winning the game is to have a good control at the center early on the game and fianchetto may not be the best to achieve it ... I guess.

[brownprose]

I am really disappointed by Kramnik's performance in that championship match. He didn't even win a single game! Grabe jud ang preparation ni Anand ato. Kudos to the new Champion!

Actually he did win pero once (Game 10) lang gyud. That was the only win he had in that 12-game series. Transcript of the game below:

Nimzo-Indian Defense, Romanishin Variation, English Hybrid, E21

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 O-O 7.Bg2 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Qb3 Qa5 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.O-O Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ba6 14.Rfd1 Qc5 15.e4 Bc4 16.Qa4 Nb6 17.Qb4 Qh5 18.Re1 c5 19.Qa5 Rfc8 20.Be3 Be2 21.Bf4 e5 22.Be3 Bg4 23.Qa6 f6 24.a4 Qf7 25.Bf1 Be6 26.Rab1 c4 27.a5 Na4 28.Rb7 Qe8 29.Qd6 1–0

[inyourface]

pero if white uses first the fianchetto.... mka develop pa ba gihapon faster ang white sa center??

Ok raman gihapon coz maka defend ra ang bishop sa center but once na mawala ang bishop sa fianchetto u'll be having problem protecting that side of the board. Pero if white ka e-maximize jud gamit imo mga pieces specially knight and bishop in the middle game. Mobilize ang mga pieces para control sa center.

[brownprose]

hi ..i personally am inclined to the the ff:

-sicilian najdorf for black as defense for e4 ...
-KID for defense for d4
-e4 as white

hehe but that was 8 years ago when im still a serious chess player..karon retired na..hehe early retirement

Sicilian Najdorf is also one of my favorites...I must admit though that I feel uncomfortable with it when I don't know my opponent that much.

Despite efforts to become a pro, I never made it I haven't played for years with a human opponent since the introduction of Chessmaster, Chess Elite and Fritz (the most difficult ever...never won even once). The only time I get a chance to play with real people is when I go to yahoo games

[brownprose]

Ok raman gihapon coz maka defend ra ang bishop sa center but once na mawala ang bishop sa fianchetto u'll be having problem protecting that side of the board. Pero if white ka e-maximize jud gamit imo mga pieces specially knight and bishop in the middle game. Mobilize ang mga pieces para control sa center.

Good idea bro...and I agree. An active knight may do the job as you pointed.

[inyourface]

Actually he did win pero once (Game 10) lang gyud. That was the only win he had in that 12-game series. Transcript of the game below:

Nimzo-Indian Defense, Romanishin Variation, English Hybrid, E21

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Nf3 c5 5.g3 cxd4 6.Nxd4 O-O 7.Bg2 d5 8.cxd5 Nxd5 9.Qb3 Qa5 10.Bd2 Nc6 11.Nxc6 bxc6 12.O-O Bxc3 13.bxc3 Ba6 14.Rfd1 Qc5 15.e4 Bc4 16.Qa4 Nb6 17.Qb4 Qh5 18.Re1 c5 19.Qa5 Rfc8 20.Be3 Be2 21.Bf4 e5 22.Be3 Bg4 23.Qa6 f6 24.a4 Qf7 25.Bf1 Be6 26.Rab1 c4 27.a5 Na4 28.Rb7 Qe8 29.Qd6 1–0

ops my bad .. daug diay cya round 10, nakalimot nako .. ang 3 loses man jud ang d nako malimtan lagota hehe ..

[inyourface]

Ruy Lopez Marshall Gambit var .. ganahan sad ko ani pag black gamit nko ..

[brownprose]

Ruy Lopez Marshall Gambit var .. ganahan sad ko ani pag black gamit nko ..

hehehe...kining Marshall Gambit bro kay kulba kaayo ni gamiton kay dali ra gyud magdaug ang game ani. It leaves really very small room for error. As I know, one of the center pawn's sa black kay exchange dayon sa middle game to open both sides to attack each other. I must say kay patayan gyud ni nga game! On the average, in more or less 30 moves daug na dayon

[inyourface]

correct bro.. black will give up his e pawn to challenge white's control of the center.. attack daun sa kingside, basta lingaw nga kulba.. once false move sa white patay jud.. d jud ni kumpyansahan nga variation kay bisan c idol kramnik nabiktima ani against leko..

[brownprose]

correct bro.. black will give up his e pawn to challenge white's control of the center.. attack daun sa kingside, basta lingaw nga kulba.. once false move sa white patay jud.. d jud ni kumpyansahan nga variation kay bisan c idol kramnik nabiktima ani against leko..

I see you really know that attack well. do you also join tourneys?

About Kramnik, aggressive gyud ni siya ever since Kasparov's time. He was probably the youngest player to have met Garry in the early 90s in which his games were mostly annotated to be highly offensive even when playing black.

In his game with Anand recently, he'd on several occasions forced Anand to transpose the game to Nimzo Indian from Queen's Gambit Declined.