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Entry Eleven - 3/15/2014
Happy pi day, everyone.
So I'm doing just a bit of opening prep lately. Namely on the Flohr-Zaitsev system in the Spanish. I don't particularly enjoy doing opening prep, especially in big openings, but they're a necessary evil if I want to reach a playable middlegame against experienced players.
For a long time I played 1.d4. Since the beginning, actually. If I'm being brutally honest with myself, I think I was afraid of tactical complication and an open fight. I was more attracted to positional ideas and slow, incremental play. Nowadays, though, I'm in the mood to fight - all the time, every game, either color. Hence the switch from 1.d4 to 1.e4 and against 1.e4 switching from 1...c6 to 1...c5. I'm king hunting these days.
More to come.
Rob