As a 1.d4 player as the white and Sicilian player as black. should I stick with these opening or should I mix it up and start playing different opening? I just watched Garry Kasparov masterclass and he talked about finding your style the suits you as your opening, but I don't want to limit my knowledge with just playing the same opening all the time. What is your guy's opinion?
Best is to play the same opening over again. Thus you gain valuable experience with it. Fischer played the same openings against everybody: Sicilian Najdorf, King's Indian with black, Ruy Lopez and open Sicilian with Bc4 as white. It is a bit different if you must play a match for the World Championship or if you are a stong grandmaster and everybody is preparing against you.
It's funny i have the same openings as you and i'm starting to think that it's a bit contradictory. D4 as white should lead to more positionnal play, and the sicilian is supposed to be an agressive opening where black fights for the initiative (i may be saying bullshit ^^).
I'm starting to think i should play e4 and get positions leading to more tactical complications. The more my rating goes up the more my d4 games are boring shitshows ending - without any mate thread throughout the game- in pawns endgames that i know nothing about (i'm going to work on it anw, it can happen in every oppening) and that i dont particularly enjoy.
Plus if we don't try a lot of oppenings how can we know if we like them or not ? I believe playing around 10 games of the most common openings is not a bad idea ? Then ofc i'll follow tpr's advice and stick with the same ones.
The question i would ask you : do you enjoy the games you're getting with your current opening choices ? As far as i'm concerned D4 with white is becoming super boring.
I'm starting to think i should play e4 and get positions leading to more tactical complications. The more my rating goes up the more my d4 games are boring shitshows ending - without any mate thread throughout the game- in pawns endgames that i know nothing about (i'm going to work on it anw, it can happen in every oppening) and that i dont particularly enjoy.
Plus if we don't try a lot of oppenings how can we know if we like them or not ? I believe playing around 10 games of the most common openings is not a bad idea ? Then ofc i'll follow tpr's advice and stick with the same ones.
The question i would ask you : do you enjoy the games you're getting with your current opening choices ? As far as i'm concerned D4 with white is becoming super boring.
Fischer said "d4 = dull & drawish" but in his match with Spassky unexpectedly opened 1 c4 to transpose to 1 d4 openings, wthout wanting to play 1 d4 "on principle". Modern top grandmasters seem to favour 1 d4 over 1 e4, and Alpha Zero also came to prefer 1 d4, 1 Nf3, 1 c4 over 1 e4. One can argue that the Berlin Defence of the Spanish Ruy Lopez or the Russian Petrov Defence are at least as boring as the Slav Queen's Gambit Declined. If you find a position boring, that is another way of saying you lack ideas. Maybe you should think more about it or deviate earlier from the trodden path.
The Sicilian is a very positional defence. The aim is to exchange the wing pawn c5 against the central pawn d4 so as to gain an endgame advantage. The game can get wild if white launches a ferocious attack, but if white is not winning by move 30, then black is likely to win the endgame.
The Sicilian is a very positional defence. The aim is to exchange the wing pawn c5 against the central pawn d4 so as to gain an endgame advantage. The game can get wild if white launches a ferocious attack, but if white is not winning by move 30, then black is likely to win the endgame.
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