Author: Martin
Date: 00:51:25 02/04/00
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On February 03, 2000 at 23:42:04, Rich Shippy wrote: >I have been studying the Dragon Sicilian as a defence to King pawn openings. I >have also dabbled in the Najdorf when I want to play it a little safer. I have >no idea where to start with a defence to d4? I have little experience with >queen pawn openings since I always play e4 as white. I have read that the Nimzo >Indian is a great defence but is it too hard to master? It seems that if you >play the Nimzo you also have to play the Queen's Indian or Bogo Indian. I also >looked into trying the Tarrash but the isolated queen pawn scares me. I am >extremely confused in what defence I should learn against d4, please help. Of course it depends on your taste. The most popular answer to 1 d4 is KID at the mo, simply due to the fact that most world class players including Gary "Mr 2850" Kasparov use it. So the lines of this opening are extremely well analysed but if you can rely on your memory (which seems to be the case, since you play two of the most complex answers to e4...), play it. Buy for example the "KING'S INDIAN STRUCTURE WITH F5-F4" CD from Chessbase, it has a quite good reputation. If you really mean "easy to learn" then indeed the Stonewall is not a bad choice, imho. Recently I've read an article by Kramnik who also finds this opening interesting and playable, even at grandmaster level. The task for white is not easy (requires a good understanding of the positional concepts) and has the big advantage that it's not as often used as most other "solid" openings. So chances are that the preparation of your opponent is not well enough... Martin
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