Author: Henrik Boye Laursen
Date: 00:44:43 12/18/05
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On December 17, 2005 at 20:02:06, Joseph Ciarrochi wrote: >On December 17, 2005 at 19:52:52, Christos Gitsis wrote: > >>On second thought, White is not forced to play this line. The most frequent move >>for White is 4.Nf3, leading to the very old Philidor Defence, with a score of >>57.3%. This is somewhat passive for Black. >> >>Regards, >>Christos > >Yes, you are right. I bought the roman video "rapid and complete opening >repertoire for black player", and could not believe that he was recommending the >phildor! I could have gotten the same advice from someone 100 years ago. > >I am having some doubts about his black recommendation against e4, but I need a >second response to E4, other than the accellerated dragon (my normal defense). > >best >Joseph Joseph, Try out the Scandinavian as a second defence. After 1. e4 d5, Black dictates the opening and play is on black's homeground. My problem with the Sicilian is that almost everybody at my level never play the open sicilian. Andrew Martin made a DVD on the scandinavian the easy way, which I can recommend. My best Henrik
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