Help me, my beauties..!

Squelchbelch

Only Chess

18 Apr 08

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

18 Apr 08

http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg

kbaumen

Sigulda, Latvia

Joined: 30 Aug 06
Moves: 4048

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg

That's a nice collection on openings.

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by kbaumen
That's a nice collection on openings.

Thanks.
Hasn't stopped the slide back to below 1600 though 😕

ChessJester

EDMONTON ALBERTA

Joined: 30 Sep 05
Moves: 10841

18 Apr 08

some people focus too much on openings... Achieving superior piece activity and positional advantages should be the goals of any chess player, and this isn't always achieved in the opening.

Talisman

Joined: 20 Jan 07
Moves: 24894

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg

It just goes to show the futility of opening theory at our level of excellence!

Patzergrl

Joined: 29 Mar 07
Moves: 2236

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg

haha...we now know your secrets 😛

Bifrost

Joined: 06 Mar 08
Moves: 412

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by ChessJester
some people focus too much on openings... Achieving superior piece activity and positional advantages should be the goals of any chess player, and this isn't always achieved in the opening.

Not always, but a lot.

pijun

Joined: 23 Sep 07
Moves: 23415

18 Apr 08

I'd say learn the endgame instead!
getting to the endgame even 1 or 2 pawns down but being a master of it will help you beat your opponent who memorized some opening and got to here. They will be lost in the endgame.

ChessJester

EDMONTON ALBERTA

Joined: 30 Sep 05
Moves: 10841

18 Apr 08

Originally posted by pijun
I'd say learn the endgame instead!
getting to the endgame even 1 or 2 pawns down but being a master of it will help you beat your opponent who memorized some opening and got to here. They will be lost in the endgame.

They are probably at least equally as important to study.

Adorea

Sub 1500

Joined: 03 Dec 06
Moves: 1324

19 Apr 08

i say study the wet bar... and the bar maid....
if theirs time for the endgame, maybe look at that too

Patzergrl

Joined: 29 Mar 07
Moves: 2236

20 Apr 08

Originally posted by ChessJester
They are probably at least equally as important to study.

Openings should only take about 25% of your total study time..according to Lev Alburt anyways

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

20 Apr 08

Tactics take up around 50% of my study time.
I'm playing here mainly to refine my openings for OTB purposes, so perhaps there is more emphasis with me on my repertoire than some other users.

Endgame study is boring, boring, boring & strategy isn't much more fun.
I have a couple of Jeremy Smugman's books & they lose their appeal after a short while.

OrangeKing

Joined: 11 Sep 06
Moves: 17376

21 Apr 08

I still can't understand for the life of me how someone can enjoy studying openings and find endgames boring, but different strokes for different folks. 🙂

Squelchbelch

Joined: 14 Jul 06
Moves: 20541

21 Apr 08

Originally posted by OrangeKing
I still can't understand for the life of me how someone can enjoy studying openings and find endgames boring, but different strokes for different folks. 🙂

Endgame study seems rather dry compared to openings.
I think that this is because there is much more room for expression in the opening:- in endgames technique is everything & generally there is a right move or wrong move & little in-between.

shorbock

Joined: 17 Mar 08
Moves: 1568

24 Apr 08

we seem to have the same caveman opening repertoire! By the way what do you play aginst d4 Nf6 Nf3? (anti-budapest)