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I get dominated by 1.d4 How to fix?

#11

d4 d5 c4 c5. You need to mesmerise some moves to make sure you're not down a pawn, but then you should have an acceptable position in which you're not cramped

d4 d5 c4 c5. You need to mesmerise some moves to make sure you're not down a pawn, but then you should have an acceptable position in which you're not cramped
#13
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#14

Looking at your d4 games, you're invariably responding with f5, like a reverse Sicilian. But you can't reverse the Sicilian, the king and queen are not interchangeable. Moving the f pawn is one of the two moves that leads to Fool's Mate, don't move the f pawn, it's intensely weakening to your king. Then, because you've weakened your king, you're castling very early, which means your king is now locked in the corner where it can be targeted. Don't move the f pawn.

d4 d5 is a bread-and-butter defense. Most anything else is giving White extra space, but Nf6 is playable, accomplishing everything the f5 push would without exposing your king to bishop/queen attacks.

Looking at your d4 games, you're invariably responding with f5, like a reverse Sicilian. But you can't reverse the Sicilian, the king and queen are not interchangeable. Moving the f pawn is one of the two moves that leads to Fool's Mate, don't move the f pawn, it's intensely weakening to your king. Then, because you've weakened your king, you're castling very early, which means your king is now locked in the corner where it can be targeted. Don't move the f pawn. d4 d5 is a bread-and-butter defense. Most anything else is giving White extra space, but Nf6 is playable, accomplishing everything the f5 push would without exposing your king to bishop/queen attacks.
#15

d4 f5 is known as the dutch defense. It hardly poses any problem, how is White supposed to attack the diagonals hitting f7? Also Black can play the Stonewall and won't suffer that much from space disadvantage.

d4 f5 is known as the dutch defense. It hardly poses any problem, how is White supposed to attack the diagonals hitting f7? Also Black can play the Stonewall and won't suffer that much from space disadvantage.
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#18

I recommend you Grünfeld defense. Kind of equivalence, najdorf for 1.d4. Very tactical, not very well known in amateur level.
Played by Kasparov, Nepo, MVL...So its fine.

I hate facing 1.d4 a long time, espacially d4 d5 structure, i felt i needed time before attacking and pushing problems to white.
Since i play it, i am fine.

I recommend you Grünfeld defense. Kind of equivalence, najdorf for 1.d4. Very tactical, not very well known in amateur level. Played by Kasparov, Nepo, MVL...So its fine. I hate facing 1.d4 a long time, espacially d4 d5 structure, i felt i needed time before attacking and pushing problems to white. Since i play it, i am fine.
#19

@FourtyTwoFields said in #2:

Well, seems you play the 1. d4 f5 and 1. d4 c5 most of the time: Both are not really good openings.

Which opening as black do you like most against 1. e4 ? Based on that we could propose something similar against d4 (solid or aggressive, open or closed ... depending on your taste).

I love c5 it is great.

@FourtyTwoFields said in #2: > Well, seems you play the 1. d4 f5 and 1. d4 c5 most of the time: Both are not really good openings. > > Which opening as black do you like most against 1. e4 ? Based on that we could propose something similar against d4 (solid or aggressive, open or closed ... depending on your taste). I love c5 it is great.

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