Opening for Black Pieces

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Marcyful
tygxc wrote:

#18
"Instead to meet e4 I'm looking into The French Defence and the Karo Kann. Both interest me and seem far simpler and easier to get a fundamental grasp of."
++ French and Caro-Kann are objectively weaker and thus more complicated to play than the Sicilian. Simplest, strongest, and easiest is 1...e5.

I'm sorry, what?

magipi
tygxc wrote:

#37

World champion Lasker wrote what is common sense: "Common Sense in Chess"
It is completely according to his own practice.

No, it is not. I seriously doubt that you are serious here. How could it be true when it is so blatantly implausible? There is no way that a master of any era could have avoided all those myriads of openings where the c-pawn is used in the opening. 

In his world championship match against Capablanca, in games 2, 4, and 10 Lasker played 1. d4 d5 2. c4. In game  8, he played 1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. c4.

With black, Lasker played various queen's gambit declined sidelines, almost always pushing an early c5 counterstrike, all of which are dished by Capablanca, funnily enough.

Marcyful
  • tygxc wrote:

    #37

    Look at the Ruy Lopez games of the recent Carlsen-Nepo World Championship match. In what games did they play other pawns than d- and e-pawns in the opening phase and on what move?

I dont know, maybe those 4 games that had the Morphy's Defense which literally involves playing the h pawn on move 3. As much as 4 games and you disregarded all of them.