What's a new opening to learn for white black and a gambit

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WoodyTBeagle

For 700 - 800 I learned fried liver attack.

For 800 -900 I added King's Gambit

For 900 - 1000 I played the London system

For 1000 - 1100 I added Vienna Game/Gambit for White and Caro Kann for Black

Just passed 1100.  Would like to study/add a new opening to expand repertoire.  What openings do you like at this level for black and white to get me to 1200 and what's a good gambit to study?  

Nimzowitsch

Englund Gambit could work. That can lead to a trap that is very similar to Black's Version of the ICBM Gambit:

Here is how it works:

Congrats on passing 1100 happy.png

Nimzowitsch

Where is the board? I will try again:

 

Nimzowitsch

I see it's not working. Here is the notation:

1. d4 e5. 2. dxe5 Bc5 3. Nf3 d6 4. exd6 Ne7 5. dxe7 Bxf2+ 6. Kxf2 Qxd1

KeSetoKaiba
ChessPawn921 wrote:

Where is the board? I will try again:

chess.com diagrams have been weird lately. Sometimes posting and then "edit" to repost the same thing gets it to work and other times if claims there is a duplicate pgn, so I just click "download" (don't download it) and copy it from there, then it pastes fine.

 

 

tygxc

Do not learn a new opening, learn to play better.
Caro-Kann as black and London as white are good. You need something as black against 1 d4, e.g. Slav Defence fits well with Caro-Kann and London.

KD9876

I was 1100 a few months ago and learnt the ruy lopez and the caro-kann in depth. They are both great openings that in my opinion are great at all levels.

 

Abhigyan2014

Halloween gambit

Closed_username1234

Seems like you left out d4.

I'd suggest King's Indian or Owen's Defense.

Jimemy
KeSetoKaiba skrev:
ChessPawn921 wrote:

Where is the board? I will try again:

chess.com diagrams have been weird lately. Sometimes posting and then "edit" to repost the same thing gets it to work and other times if claims there is a duplicate pgn, so I just click "download" (don't download it) and copy it from there, then it pastes fine.

 

 

Nice trick. For me, i dont like opening tricks where if your oppnonent dont fell for it you will be in a worse position. 

Like if white dont take the knight, white will simply have an extra pawn. But maybe there will be compensation for the pawn if white dont take the knight? 

Abhi_Mary_1997

Well if you are beginner then first you should master basics of openings fundamentals. For example ,

1. Develop all the pieces towards center and try to control the central squares e4,d4,e5,d5 then try to control more and more. 

2. Never bring your queen out. In the blog link which I shared in the bottom you will see how to punish when someone play with only queen.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Abhi_Mary_1997/never-bring-your-queen-out

3. Do not move more than two pawns in the openings. Focus on rapid development.

4. Do not move the same piece twice for unnecessary reasons. 

There are some more basic principles but it's not good to write everything. I suggest you should check first all Morphy Games which will teach you Why develop pieces. Morphy's understand of chess was so nice and he knew the power of development.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbRkqqawcTo

For more info about chess you can message me . I will be happy to show you the right path . Opening is not important at lower level. What matters is to understand openings fundamentals.

Good luck ! Abhi!

 

 

 

WoodyTBeagle

Thinking the right answer right now is a combination of Catalan and Queen's Gambit Accepted/Declined since you really need to know the Queens Gambit in case someone plays into that in the Catalan.   And for black. . .maybe the King's Indian since it's kind of similar to Catalan in structure with the fianchetto'd bishop. 

The last round (Vienna/Caro Kann) was about e4 openings - but these will give me another tool with d4.  

Solmyr1234

A good gambit (if there IS such a thing) is the Evans Gambit, the Budapest Gambit is considered good for some reason.[I find the Budapest easy to decline, and the Benko hard to decline, but to be honest, I think studying the Benko would be hard, so I didn't suggested it to you. The Evans' cannot be declined, and can't be refuted. Black must take the pawn, and then must return it. and he must play an akward queen-move, but if he does all that, then your pawn-structure is funny and your attack is gone].

 

Responses to the Evans Gambit | Chess Openings Explained

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phZ_fAGlBVo&t=199s

 

 

Declining a gambit - not taking the pawn.[easy]

Refuting the gambit - taking the pawn and win. [hard]

Solmyr1234

Marshall Attack Steiner var. is very fun :-)

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/welcome-to-the-steiner-attack-of-the-ruy-lopez

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This is good:

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/welcome-to-the-polerio-defense-of-the-italian-game

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and this:

Steinitz say: Attack! (it's a gambit. or a gamble, but it's fun).

 

RussBell

For beginner-intermediate players check out GothamChess (IM Levy Rozman) on YouTube for recommendations and quick tutorials on various openings....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFod-ozimmM&t=103s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdyik5UwBtM

ttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=gothamchess+openings

For more opening suggestions check out the chess openings tier lists videos by GM Hikaru Nakamura and IM Levy Rozman (aka 'GothamChess'). There are separate tier list videos for beginner, intermediate and GM level. Within a video each opening is ranked in terms of its appropriateness vis-a-vis player skill level. Here is part 1 of the 3-part Tier List for Beginners...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CwH47r6og&list=PL4KCWZ5Ti2H43-gcoByRnZs5fVR_Lg133&index=4&ab_channel=GMHikaru

Note also that (particularly for the beginner openings video) they will frequently refer to some openings as "garbage" or "bad" (an unfortunate choice of terms in my view). However, these qualifiers are meant simply to convey how appropriate the specific opening is for the level of player being discussed, in terms of, for example, how much so-called "theory" (i.e., the collection of extensively documented variations) the opening encompasses, or how much emphasis the opening places on positional versus tactical skills in order to play it well.

So, an opening they refer to as "garbage" for a beginner may in fact be appropriate for higher rated players who typically know more of the theory for particular openings and have a more highly developed understanding of positional concepts. For each of the openings discussed be sure, also, to pay attention to whether the evaluation is from White’s or Black’s perspective.

Finally, several articles on suggested openings and other articles on chess topics that may be of interest to the improving chess amateur in my blog....
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

ChesswithGautham
ChessPawn921 wrote:

Englund Gambit could work. That can lead to a trap that is very similar to Black's Version of the ICBM Gambit:

Here is how it works:


Congrats on passing 1100

Nice trap. Not recommended on rapid, but has a 55% chance of working in blitz and bullet, since t

he opponents thinks for a short time.

Nimzowitsch
  • ChesswithGautham wrote:
    ChessPawn921 wrote:

    Englund Gambit could work. That can lead to a trap that is very similar to Black's Version of the ICBM Gambit:

    Here is how it works:



    Congrats on passing 1100

    Nice trap. Not recommended on rapid, but has a 55% chance of working in blitz and bullet, since t

    he opponents thinks for a short time.

All traps are more effective in Bullet.

MisterWindUpBird
tygxc wrote:

Do not learn a new opening, learn to play better.
Caro-Kann as black and London as white are good. You need something as black against 1 d4, e.g. Slav Defence fits well with Caro-Kann and London.

Yes, exactly! If you want new tricks, then literally learn the tricks and traps in the openings you know. Add repertoire through natural transpositions. London/Barry/Stonewall/Blackmar Diemer/ Richter Veresov/ Queen's Gambit or Carro Kan/Slav/Cambridge Spring/Winawer. -Then quite naturally, studying the white position in Carro Kan Advance variation becomes obvious... etc.

Derek-C-Goodwin

London System. You learn so much and its good for both colours.