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Does anyone good religiously play the same opening as black? I don’t know chess but that sounds like a bad idea
by oneoff786 4y ago
Does anyone good religiously play the same opening as black?
I don’t know chess but that sounds like a bad idea
- School-Cotton 4y ago> that sounds like a bad idea Why? If you like it, you like it
- oneoff786 4y agoI would assume black is more reactive. Like your opening may easily become an obviously terrible choice to white’s moves.
- School-Cotton 4y agoAh, right. You can’t play the same moves in response to all of your opponent’s moves. (This is true for both white and black). I assumed the person you were responding to meant that they play the Najdorf Sicilian whenever white allows them to enter that line. For example, you can’t play any kind of Sicilian, whether Najdorf or otherwise, against 1. d4 (white’s second most popular first move, behind 1. e4).
- bigger_cheese 4y agoUsually when you play the opening as Black you are responding to White's move which takes the initative out of your hands somewhat. There is such a thing as transposing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_(chess) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposition_(chess), where you can reach the same position from different sequence of openings. So you can reach positions you are familiar with from a number of different openings. As far as top players I think you need to be able to have variation in your repertoire if you play the same thing stubbornly you would risk becoming predicable and your opponent can prepare lines against you specifically. It might work for one tournament but afterwards people would have studied the games and developed counters.