Philidor opening

I don't mind it. I used to play it a little, but that was long ago. However I do play KID in a very similar way as I used to play Philidor's defense, e.g.

Game 1296218

The theme is to use Black's open e file as well as White's lack of a d-Pawn to attack White's e-Pawn. White lacking a d-Pawn means I can plant a Knight on c5 - unless he pushes b4, which I find highly annoying. Generally people don't make this push however.

Originally posted by sundown316
Actually,he never played it all,as far as they can tell. There are about 60-70 games of his on record,and no practical examples. All he did was analyze it,and then only the variation named after him:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5?! And it's Philador,not Philidor.

any new develoopment with philidor?

Originally posted by sundown316
Actually,he never played it all,as far as they can tell. There are about 60-70 games of his on record,and no practical examples. All he did was analyze it,and then only the variation named after him:1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 f5?! And it's Philador,not Philidor.

If you don't know the Philidor particularly well and are not that strong a player you can end up in a whole heap of trouble and come under heavy attack in the opening few moves. I have never played it myself so can't really say much on its playability.

Originally posted by Suzianne
I don't know where you got this idea, but every chess resource I have spells it Philidor.

In my limited experience at playing it, it seems to work pretty well if a strategy of restraint is used on White's central pawn (Nimzowitsch style). White often gets bent out of shape and tries to conduct an unsound attack on the king.

I am actually a major advocate of the Philidor. I particularly like the Larsen Variation. 1. e4 e5. 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4. 4. Nxd4 g6.

As a shamless plug, here is a section of my web blog discussing the Philidor when the key 3. d4 is not played.

http://blueeyedrook.blogspot.com/2005/08/philidor-defense-when-white-doesnt.html

Hello all this is my first post here so bare with me.

I have been looking at some gambit ideas for black in the philidor. Thanks to Tim McGrew and his gambit cartel articles. The one i am currently enjoying is this

1.e4 e5
2.nf3 d6
3.d4 bg4?!

I know what you guys are thinking this looks pretty crazy as Morphys famous operabox game started like this but bear with me a little longer.

4.dxe4 Nd7!?

This is the improvement. The idea is to give up the d pawn for a modest lead in development.

5.exd6 Bxd6

And from here on some crazy ness starts. It might not be 100% sound as i have discovered with a lot of at home analysis but it will give you a lot of points if you study it.

Some of my games have gone amazingly well. And the ones I lost had nothing to do with the opening. But rather some shoddy tactics.

So take a look and check out the chess cafe for the gambit cartel. You can download all of his articles in adobe format and i think youll like what you read. Sadly Mr. McGrew is a little to busy to keep writing them. But never the less i would recomend them all for a fresh look on chess over all.