Choosing the Right Openings

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Choosing the Right Openings

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Do you know the opening from the position above? Black plays a King’s Indian
structure, but what does White play? We don’t know for sure and the player with white
pieces didn’t know too, but now he is one of the young super-grandmasters: Radjabov,
the #11 player in the World. This is NOT a singular case. In fact, the majority of the
nowadays young super-grandmasters started their chess career playing almost strange
openings or less studied opening variations.

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But what do you think about the position above? Does it seem to you to be a
complicated Najdorf, Ruy Lopez or some main line of the Nimzovich Defense? No, it’s a
‘pet’ line played by the today’s number 7 in the World: Levon Aronian. In fact, he used
this system in the majority of his games when he was a child.

To make an idea, you can find attached here […inside the magazine] a database of
some games played by Ponomariov, Aronian, Morozevich, Radjabov and Mamedyarov
in their childhood. All of them were J unior World Champions, and obtained the
grandmaster title very quick. They and much many other young grandmasters learnt
CHESS before Opening theory. When they reached the grandmaster title, or an ELO of
more than 2400, they have started to use more and more theoretical lines.
Why I’m talking about the young grandmasters and do not give the example of Alekhine,
Tal or even Kasparov? Because of the computer’s era. Now, anyone can use
databases, Internet and chess engines to get the latest novelties in openings. In the
above mentioned world champions’ time, the things were totally different.

So, our recommendation is: DO NOT choose complicate or large opening systems.
It is much better to choose simpler, easier and less studied opening systems. If you are
not a FIDE Master yet, you shouldn’t lose too much time with memorizing some opening
novelties or complicated lines.

Reasons for not playing complicated opening systems:
1) You lose a lot of time studying them – better study a good chess book
2) You won’t remember all the lines when your whole big repertoire will be ready
3) After a while, you’ll lose the interest in that opening, and all your work is in vain
4) While preparing a large opening, you’ll realize that the work will never stop and
you’ll never be able to ‘master’ that opening as you first thought. Your joy for the
game will be much affected.
5) Large openings do not mean better results. In fact, a simple opening but that you
understand, it will give you much more satisfaction.

For the opening stage, it is very important to observe the ideas of different kind of
openings (of any opening, not only of the openings you are currently playing). You can
use these ideas as any chess knowledge. For example, it’s no more important to know
about the “double pawns” (a chess strategy’s subject) than to know how to play a typical
King’s Indian position. Or, an idea of the Ruy Lopez opening may help you in one of
your games even if you are not playing that opening system. BUT this doesn’t mean we
need to learn a complicated system of Ruy Lopez, King’s Indian or Sicilian… You only
need to learn from the ideas/plans of these openings.

Your opening repertoire should contain easier opening systems that you are able to
understand COMPLETELY.

Recommendations in choosing the openings of your Repertoire:
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So, again: a) play simple openings that you can completely understand and learn. In
addition, b) learn the ideas of the complex openings as you learn chess strategy or
endgames. The ideas of different opening systems will raise your chess level, even if
you don’t play them.

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