Reti opening for White
Hi. Does anyone play this system or have expeirence playing it? I quite like the appeal of this opening from a king safety point of view. Moves such as g3, Bg2, Nf3, 0-0 (not playing e4) The king looks ultra safe and I’ve recently been having trouble with the king safety. It was one of the 1st stratageys I learned as a kid to “build a house” for the king in the way mentioned above.
Reti opening for White
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Re: Reti opening for White
I'd suggest it works best if you back it up with a broad range of openings and systems that you can transpose into. But you are quite correct, if you play Nf3, g3, Bg2, O-O your king is usually safe. One system to watch out for is if Black goes .. d5, .. Nc6, .. e5 . Your problem is that you are now defending a Pirc which has some vicious lines where the defender can be blown away with ideas from Black such as Be6/g4, Qd7 , O-O-O and h5Kevin O'Rourke wrote: Does anyone play this system or have experience playing it?
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Roger de Coverly wrote:I'd suggest it works best if you back it up with a broad range of openings and systems that you can transpose intoKevin O'Rourke wrote: Does anyone play this system or have experience playing it?
I’ve been playing (mostly) 1 Nf3 for a while now and I think Roger is quite correct here.
I never go 1 Nf3 2 g3 3 Bg2. I started off with 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4 and held my d-pawn back until well into the middlegame.
These days I’m much more likely to play an early d2-d4 after 1 Nf3, transposing into queen’s pawn systems having avoided certain variations. I’ll quite often include a later g2-g3 and Bf1-g2 but not always.
I’ve never played 1 Nf3 as a lead into the King’s Indian Attack in a serious game but obviously that’s entirely respectable too.
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Jonathan Bryant wrote: I I started off with 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4 and held my d-pawn back until well into the middlegame.
The system for Black with 2. c4 d4, followed up with .. f6 and .. e5 gives space. The Jones-Adams game from the 2016 British is an example.
That's often the Kramnik method.Jonathan Bryant wrote: These days I’m much more likely to play an early d2-d4 after 1 Nf3, transposing into queen’s pawn systems having avoided certain variations.
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2 ... d4 is definitely the critical test. I got it about 1 game in 5. The only time my opponent played the ... f6 and ... e5 set-up was about 10 years ago. Led to a rather nice win for me. Obviously Black doesn’t have to let me be so accommodating.Roger de Coverly wrote:Jonathan Bryant wrote: I I started off with 1 Nf3 d5 2 c4 and held my d-pawn back until well into the middlegame.
The system for Black with 2. c4 d4, followed up with .. f6 and .. e5 gives space. The Jones-Adams game from the 2016 British is an example.
You have to like Benoni-type positions if you’re going to play this sort of thing.
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Re: Reti opening for White
Had a silly person online blindly play e5 into me so that was a nice gift.
Feels weird not moving my e pawn.
Thanks for the advice
Feels weird not moving my e pawn.
Thanks for the advice