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The Schematic of Threatening Opening Preparation

This awful blog image keeps popping up on lichess at regular intervals!

Maybe you could flip it horizontally ... that would look much more professional.

This awful blog image keeps popping up on lichess at regular intervals! Maybe you could flip it horizontally ... that would look much more professional.

@tpr said in #2:

Marshall followed all of your steps in this game
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1095025

Good thing that lichess users don't have to play Capa then! ;)

@tpr said in #2: > Marshall followed all of your steps in this game > https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1095025 Good thing that lichess users don't have to play Capa then! ;)

#3
The light square is on white's left and the white king stands to the left of the white queen. What does the black pawn do there? Maybe it is easier to set up a real position on a real chess board and take a picture of it.

#3 The light square is on white's left and the white king stands to the left of the white queen. What does the black pawn do there? Maybe it is easier to set up a real position on a real chess board and take a picture of it.

"Break your opponent's psychology" .... the way I go about this is to "surprise the surpriser" in the opening, by preparing a zinger very early on. One example of mine that comes to mind is 1.b4?! c6!? With best play Black winds up with a broad pawn center with ...e5 and ...d5, something hard to acheive with the standard reply 1...e5

"Break your opponent's psychology" .... the way I go about this is to "surprise the surpriser" in the opening, by preparing a zinger very early on. One example of mine that comes to mind is 1.b4?! c6!? With best play Black winds up with a broad pawn center with ...e5 and ...d5, something hard to acheive with the standard reply 1...e5

e4 c5 c3 Nc6 d4 cd4 cd4 d5 ed5 Qd5 Nf3, is Bg4 popular for black? I noticed that people who know their Sicilians always play e6 or Nf6. But Bg4 is the most popular move in the lichess database and either leads to an extremely complex middlegame/endgame (absolutely perfect play from black) or a pretty crazy attack for white

e4 c5 c3 Nc6 d4 cd4 cd4 d5 ed5 Qd5 Nf3, is Bg4 popular for black? I noticed that people who know their Sicilians always play e6 or Nf6. But Bg4 is the most popular move in the lichess database and either leads to an extremely complex middlegame/endgame (absolutely perfect play from black) or a pretty crazy attack for white

I guess I'll propose "Toadofsky's Theorem": players below 2000 don't (deeply) know openings, so you can get away with playing whatever against them.

I guess I'll propose "Toadofsky's Theorem": players below 2000 don't (deeply) know openings, so you can get away with playing whatever against them.

@Jisu101 said in #8:

e4 c5 c3 Nc6 d4 cd4 cd4 d5 ed5 Qd5 Nf3, is Bg4 popular for black? I noticed that people who know their Sicilians always play e6 or Nf6. But Bg4 is the most popular move in the lichess database and either leads to an extremely complex middlegame/endgame (absolutely perfect play from black) or a pretty crazy attack for white

Looking at this variation it seems extremely likely to eventually lead to a winning position around the mid tier on lichess, interestingly even very high rated players play Bg4 in the critical position but at those levels the unlikely move is actually Nc6 since most players have transitioned over to attempting to equalize with Nf6 or d5

@Jisu101 said in #8: > e4 c5 c3 Nc6 d4 cd4 cd4 d5 ed5 Qd5 Nf3, is Bg4 popular for black? I noticed that people who know their Sicilians always play e6 or Nf6. But Bg4 is the most popular move in the lichess database and either leads to an extremely complex middlegame/endgame (absolutely perfect play from black) or a pretty crazy attack for white Looking at this variation it seems extremely likely to eventually lead to a winning position around the mid tier on lichess, interestingly even very high rated players play Bg4 in the critical position but at those levels the unlikely move is actually Nc6 since most players have transitioned over to attempting to equalize with Nf6 or d5