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Pick your color... my first moves are below
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I would consider anything outside of using a chess engine fair game (opening book, database, etc allowed)-
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Pretty much anything that doesnt have analysis attached to it im fine (even just setting up a board and playing a few lines to see what works)... unless there is a clock anything but bringing in an engine is fair game to me. Both white knights out here like this is already a bit atypical though, probably at least 60% of games white goes 2. d4 followed by e5.-
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To make it clear... setting up a board with a position and trying to play out more of a 10+ move line im fine with just to check on things like a sacrifice/gambit would play out. Depending on complexity of situation I stop trusting myself around 5 moves.-
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Sure, that makes sense to me. I’ll play out lines depending on the position. If I think I have winning chances I sometimes like to try and play out several variations to make sure I’m winning in all of them before doing anything rash. And yeah, this is the approach I learned against the Caro Kann from watching some of Aman Hambleton’s videos on YouTube. I prefer it to the advance variation as it seems to lead to more open positions (which, as a Caro Kann player, I’m assuming aren’t your favourite )In post 5, LlamaFluff wrote: Pretty much anything that doesnt have analysis attached to it im fine (even just setting up a board and playing a few lines to see what works)... unless there is a clock anything but bringing in an engine is fair game to me. Both white knights out here like this is already a bit atypical though, probably at least 60% of games white goes 2. d4 followed by e5."we knew everything... And we knew nothing."-
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I think my least favorite are the Bayonet lines that try to force me to play f6 early. I get enough of these (usually play Caro-Kann, sometimes play French), but they can transpose into things I can logically play but can fake enough.Sure, that makes sense to me. I’ll play out lines depending on the position. If I think I have winning chances I sometimes like to try and play out several variations to make sure I’m winning in all of them before doing anything rash. And yeah, this is the approach I learned against the Caro Kann from watching some of Aman Hambleton’s videos on YouTube. I prefer it to the advance variation as it seems to lead to more open positions (which, as a Caro Kann player, I’m assuming aren’t your favourite )-
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Just because now I got bored... pulling up chess.com results after 1. e4 c6 the win percent for White/Draw/Black depending on white 2nd move (and #games). Granted I do daily tournaments more so usually have a few body bag games in first rounds.
d4 (349) - 35/19/46
Nf3 (102) - 22/17/62
Nc3 (37) - 30/8/62
Bc4 (25) - 4/0/96
c4 (24) - 25/38/38-
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Not familiar with the bayonet lines tbh. I used to play the French when I first got into chess a few years ago, but then I took a long break and ever since I came back I've disliked it aha. Tried out the Caro Kann a bit, but I'm mostly just not really a fan. I personally play either some sort of Sicilian or e5 against e4, depending on my mood.
Also, that's interesting: the database on lichess has some different numbers:
d4 (8,422,591) -- 48/6/46
Nf3 (3,027,891) -- 45/5/50
Nc3 (1,520,401) -- 48/6/46
d3 (483,910) -- 48/6/46
c4 (466,696) -- 49/7/44
But I think these often don't give the full indication, as a lot of Nf3 lines transpose into Nc3 and vice versa. I normally like to look through to see if there are any particular lines I like the look of, and to then play for those if possible."we knew everything... And we knew nothing."-
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Bayonet are the early g4/h4 lines that usually pushes bishop back to h7 (Bg4 + no bishop exchange lines are similar)
Those stats were just my games. But usually tournaments for me is 6 players first round where I should be winning three and then there is a tossup and against a better player scenarios so I should get a decent bump to win percent playing my favorite lines
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No worries, I only check every day or so-
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