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Date: 24 May 2006 18:22:16
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Don't fall in love with any specific opening
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Players do this all the time, acting as if playing one variation over
another gives their game some type of special power (see, e.g., Sloan's
Damiano Defense or Grob). The problem with this is that you wind up with
the "hammer/nail" problem because using the same "hammer" makes everything
in chess openings start looking like a "nail" to you, and you won't develop
your ability to objectively find better moves that might not suit your style
and which therefore impede your development.
It is not my approach to the opening to hope to play a specific variation.
Instead, I approach the game expecting to win straight out of the opening
and doing the best I can to get as close as I can to making that happen,
regardless of the specific moves required to do it. If I find a hole in my
repertoire, I plug it up and move forward, without emotion.
--
"Google maintains the USENET." -- The Honorable R. Barclay Surrick, Eastern
District of PA Judge
From Parker v. Google, E.D.Pa. #04-cv-3918
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Date: 24 May 2006 16:04:25
From: chasmad
Subject: Re: Don't fall in love with any specific opening
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Ray Gordon wrote:
> Players do this all the time, acting as if playing one variation over
> another gives their game some type of special power (see, e.g., Sloan's
> Damiano Defense or Grob). The problem with this is that you wind up with
> the "hammer/nail" problem because using the same "hammer" makes everything
> in chess openings start looking like a "nail" to you, and you won't develop
> your ability to objectively find better moves that might not suit your style
> and which therefore impede your development.
>
> It is not my approach to the opening to hope to play a specific variation.
> Instead, I approach the game expecting to win straight out of the opening
> and doing the best I can to get as close as I can to making that happen,
> regardless of the specific moves required to do it. If I find a hole in my
> repertoire, I plug it up and move forward, without emotion.
>
You should get together with Larry Parr and write a book called "Chess
Secrets of the Idiot Poseurs."
Charles
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Date: 24 May 2006 23:14:12
From: Ray Gordon
Subject: Re: Don't fall in love with any specific opening
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>> Players do this all the time, acting as if playing one variation over
>> another gives their game some type of special power (see, e.g., Sloan's
>> Damiano Defense or Grob). The problem with this is that you wind up with
>> the "hammer/nail" problem because using the same "hammer" makes
>> everything
>> in chess openings start looking like a "nail" to you, and you won't
>> develop
>> your ability to objectively find better moves that might not suit your
>> style
>> and which therefore impede your development.
>>
>> It is not my approach to the opening to hope to play a specific
>> variation.
>> Instead, I approach the game expecting to win straight out of the opening
>> and doing the best I can to get as close as I can to making that happen,
>> regardless of the specific moves required to do it. If I find a hole in
>> my
>> repertoire, I plug it up and move forward, without emotion.
>>
> You should get together with Larry Parr and write a book called "Chess
> Secrets of the Idiot Poseurs."
Wow, we have another anonymous, angry coward here.
Poor thing: all that anger and no ability to do anything about what bugs
him, except run his mouth.
--
"Google maintains the USENET." -- The Honorable R. Barclay Surrick, Eastern
District of PA Judge
From Parker v. Google, E.D.Pa. #04-cv-3918
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