Hi!
Fisrt, I'll introduce myself since this is my first message on this forum:
Well, my name is Marc-Etienne and my internet name is Spookyblackhole. I am a french Canadian from Quebec so excuse me if my english is bad sometimes. I learned to play about 10 years ago, but I suddenly wanted to get better in this field and found this website while searching for information. I just began looking at opening lesson, but on my first game, something destabilized me during the opening.
Which leads to my question:
If I'm thinking of playing with an open game opening in mind, being the white, and my oponent open with something like a sicilian defense making it a semi-open game, is there a way for me to switch to a semi-open game opening for white? In other words, are there any semi-open game opening for white?
Because, all I can find on internet and books for the moment are openings meant for black to take advantage of the game with a defense. None for white...
Thank you in advance!
Nothing to add to ajedrecito's nice explanation, but I think I may be able to help address one of your other "confusions."
You can't play a "semi-open" opening as white, any more than black can play a "semi-open" opening. That phrase doesn't describe a choice you can make. It describes a reality that appears on the chessboard after certain moves have been made.
If you play 1.e4 and black follows it with 1...e5, it isn't that black is playing an open game. It's that the two of you have combined to create an "open game." Likewise, if you play 1.e4 and black follows it with anything else, the two of you have combined to create a "semi-open game."
These names don't necessarily have very much (or anything) to do with how the game will play out. They're just useful classification tools so we can all talk about openings and understand what each other mean.
If by "open" we try to mean "a wide open game with a lot of tactics," then the king of all 1.e4e5 games -- the Ruy Lopez -- is about as far from that as possible. In the same way, there are lots of 1.d4 (or "closed") games that explode in tactical fireworks a half dozen moves in.
So once your opponent plays 1...c5, you already ARE playing a semi-open game with the white pieces. It's all just nomenclature.
Hi!
Fisrt, I'll introduce myself since this is my first message on this forum:
Well, my name is Marc-Etienne and my internet name is Spookyblackhole. I am a french Canadian from Quebec so excuse me if my english is bad sometimes. I learned to play about 10 years ago, but I suddenly wanted to get better in this field and found this website while searching for information. I just began looking at opening lesson, but on my first game, something destabilized me during the opening.
Which leads to my question:
If I'm thinking of playing with an open game opening in mind, being the white, and my oponent open with something like a sicilian defense making it a semi-open game, is there a way for me to switch to a semi-open game opening for white? In other words, are there any semi-open game opening for white?
Because, all I can find on internet and books for the moment are openings meant for black to take advantage of the game with a defense. None for white...
Thank you in advance!