What defence is the best to d4

jonzzzz

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01 Oct 06 15:27

Amaurote

No Name Maddox

County Doledrum

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01 Oct 06 19:33

Originally posted by !~TONY~!
It's certainly strong enough against strong players dude. I think Karpov played the QGA against Leko in their very recent match. Hahaha...people have been playing the QGA forever with decent results.

I'm speaking specifically about the Rizzitano line, though.

jonzzzz

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02 Oct 06 02:06

well I like the dutch defence. But I'm looking at e6 so d4 e6 d4 transposes to french or d4 e6 c4 Nf3 turns into nimzo Indian or QID

cmsMaster

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02 Oct 06 02:06

Originally posted by jonzzzz
well I like the dutch defence. But I'm looking at e6 so d4 e6 d4 transposes to french or d4 e6 c4 Nf3 turns into nimzo Indian or QID

I just started using the Semi-Slav and it's awesome.

!~TONY~!

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02 Oct 06 02:08

Originally posted by cmsMaster
I just started using the Semi-Slav and it's awesome.

Ditto.

jonzzzz

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02 Oct 06 02:13

Tony what happend with your rating going down to 938 and back up to 1600

cmsMaster

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02 Oct 06 02:15

Originally posted by jonzzzz
Tony what happend with your rating going down to 938 and back up to 1600

Probably timeouts, dude, don't worry, I'm sure he'll be back in the 2000's soon enough. 🙂

jonzzzz

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02 Oct 06 02:17

cms master when will I be able to play you

cmsMaster

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02 Oct 06 02:18

Originally posted by jonzzzz
cms master when will I be able to play you

When you hit 1500.

jonzzzz

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02 Oct 06 02:23

ok I'm almost there.

kmac27

washington

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02 Oct 06 02:34

250 to go. its about the same as me trying to get to 1700

jonzzzz

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02 Oct 06 02:43

why do you want to get to 1700

cmsMaster

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02 Oct 06 02:45

Originally posted by jonzzzz
why do you want to get to 1700

Why not?

!~TONY~!

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02 Oct 06 03:03

Originally posted by jonzzzz
Tony what happend with your rating going down to 938 and back up to 1600

I got very busy with school and took on way too many games last semester, so I had to get my priorities straight. Hopefully I will be able to slim down my games during finals again so I won't have to make this a habit. Although the pretty rating graph is much better than those like Tebb - One gigantic green blob! Those jerks...

fluffymop

Atlanta

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02 Oct 06 16:27

Statistically, for 2700 and above players (and they would know), it is the Nimzo-Indian and Slav. The Nimzo Indian leads to more decisive games however.

Falco Lombardi

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02 Oct 06 19:20

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MoDeRn BeNoNi!

1. d4 Nf6
2. c4 c5
3. d5 e6