tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post9180718252850881118..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: How long?Tom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-14244752906076156282011-09-09T08:16:58.776+01:002011-09-09T08:16:58.776+01:00You can let them prepare. Go ahead take me on in a...<i> You can let them prepare. Go ahead take me on in an opening I have spent far more time on than you can ever hope to in a few hours before a game. </i><br /><br />...and which I may well have played before except that you don't know this. You, however, are definitely playing it for the first time. Be amazed when your preparation runs out before my knowledge does.<br /><br />Definitely my approach.<br /><br />There's a future blue-or-red-pill in this, I think.ejhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01582272075999298935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-34889976006387714022011-09-08T19:20:56.500+01:002011-09-08T19:20:56.500+01:00It's probably a good idea when you change open...It's probably a good idea when you change openings to keep the old stuff to wheel out from time to time. Someone who worked for New In Chess who I met in Ghent told me this- not that means it is automatically true. The need to be less predictable seems to be more important now that you are regularly playing e2e4 events as you will start to get quite a body of games available to opponents to prepare from. Of course that does bring us into another area- <br />1. You can let them prepare. Go ahead take me on in an opening I have spent far more time on than you can ever hope to in a few hours before a game. If somehow you do come up with something, my repetoire will become all the stronger for it.<br />2. Play loads of different stuff. Save your energy and don't bother preparing- you'll never pin me down! Bogdan is a master at this as I gather is Stuart Conquest. Nosher also adopted this approach at the British.<br />AndrewAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-63800479606927304482011-09-07T17:59:06.549+01:002011-09-07T17:59:06.549+01:00Not sure - there's a congress at Fareham the f...Not sure - there's a congress at Fareham the following weekend. Can't really manage both, and should probably support the local event. But playing conditions at Sunningdale will probably be better.David Fowlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639353485951805411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-12915831502012200712011-09-07T14:11:29.485+01:002011-09-07T14:11:29.485+01:00Are you playing at Sunningdale, btw?Are you playing at Sunningdale, btw?Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-11181013517348871832011-09-07T14:03:06.822+01:002011-09-07T14:03:06.822+01:00Thanks David - amended.Thanks David - amended.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-13010477244232708362011-09-07T09:47:25.062+01:002011-09-07T09:47:25.062+01:00A quick spelling correction - it should be Rajesh,...A quick spelling correction - it should be Rajesh, not Rajash.<br /><br />And I agree that he's someone to look out for - I played him in the round before you, and also got a draw. I had to dodge some awkward tactics, and came close to losing.David Fowlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14639353485951805411noreply@blogger.com