Hi everyone,
I am looking for an opening or variation (both for white and black) that can lead to a quick or forced draw.
Or at least with high probability for a draw.
For example, one with many forced exchanges that dry up the position.
Who can help? :)
For black good luck finding one because you won't find a good one since white is the one with the decision to go into that.
There is no such thing as upping chances of forced draw. There are some lines inside of openings that if you know them you can trap people into a forced draw. The london system has exactly that on around move 10 where if the queen takes on b2 it can't get out, and if white stops attacking the queen he loses, so forced draw. Those are rare. I don't understand why you would want to do that... Just play the best openings you can, and play the best moves you can. Play like Tal. Not like Giri!
To add onto that. I can say that there are books that show "people" that have opening systems that make attempts to "dull" the positions in the way you sound like you want to. For example: There was a master who a while back came up with a weird system that was in his eyes a new way to play the philidor. I believe his name was Oleg Gamov or something like that. I don't remember the spelling of his last name. He actually made quite the sensation years ago. Getting people not only in an old gaming site with chess called "Mplayer", but eventually he got to FICS and ICC. It was stupid boring. And good "practitioners" of the opening easily obtained class A-master level just knowing his basics for both black and white. Honestly I hated the system myself.. But for a long time I had a weakness against it.
Another way is to find a player and match his system.. One of the newer versions I know of is a book by Cyrus Lakdawala on Ulf Anderson and how he opens with white. Cyrus admits that the play is potentially very boring. It could be close to what you're looking for...
If you can't find information on that Filidor opening there is a Roman Lab on basically the same thing. It doesn't go as deep as the other master did in planning, but it does give good ideas.
