response as black!! to white e4

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What do people play? i am creating a repetoire to play! as black What do people like and find effective?

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Play 1...e6, you won't regret it! 😛

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why e6

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Thats the french is it not?

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Originally posted by mipmcpt
What do people play? i am creating a repetoire to play! as black What do people like and find effective?
I always play c5, my club mates are now really testing me because they know I am going to play the sicillian which is good as my otb sicillian is improving now

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Originally posted by mipmcpt
why e6
Check out a few databases.

There is
e5, King Pawn Game
e6, the French Defence
c6, the Caro-Kann Defence
c5, the Sicillian Defence


and more...

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Which variation of the sicillian

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The most common replies are probably c5 (Sicilian), e6 (French), and e5 (King's Pawn) in no particular order. I would focus on these and maybe learn d5 (Scandenavian) and Nf6 (Alkheines defense) later.

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Thankd diety which do you like and find effective?

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Originally posted by mipmcpt
Thats the french is it not?
Yes...

But seriously, what is your style of play?

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Originally posted by mipmcpt
What do people play? i am creating a repetoire to play! as black What do people like and find effective?
Everybody's going to give you a different answer, but my opinion is start with e5 for a while to get a feel for good opening principles (you will learn a lot about basic tactics and different positional ideas).

After you have a feel for the basics with the e5 lines, you can graduate to the Sicilian with the more advanced (but more powerful) ideas.

Please don't play the French!

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My style tends to be Quite postional, asd white i like the colle system!

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Originally posted by mipmcpt
Thankd diety which do you like and find effective?
All of them are effective, seriously all of them.

I recently started playing the Caro-Kann, I love it.

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you see? The defense is so good that people are begging you to switch to something else!

ok, anyways... if you are positional player then french defense is a very good choice for you.

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there are a number of sound replies.
e5
d5
c5
e6
c6
Nf3

It just depends on your playing style. If you are unsure of your style I would reccomend 1...e5, it is theoretically the best.