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0 pointsYetAnotherNick5y ago0 comments

The opening strength will only work when you know how to exploit something small in opponent's opening like a miss of tempo or wrong reply, which I think is above the skill of sub 1700. All the players above 1000 know basic principles like mobility of pieces and developing centre.

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iamcreasy5y ago· 2 in thread

> The opening strength will only work when you know how to exploit something small in opponent's opening like a miss of tempo or wrong reply

That's exactly what I am saying. If one person knows the strength of an opening and the other person don't then the person who knows the opening has a clear advantage. I agree with @skulk's argument though - the time is better spent on learning tactics and analyzing games over learning many opening given the player is sticking to some particular openings.

YetAnotherNickOP5y ago

> the opening has a clear advantage

not exactly if the person can't use the slight advantage for their benefit. They only have window of 2-3 moves at max to exploit less developed pieces else the advantage fades away(assuming non point positional advantage). It is hard for 1700s to exploit very minor advantage and most of the time the win is due to a blunder by opponent.

iamcreasy5y ago

What I said was conditioned on player sticking to few opening that s/he knows very well. It not hard to convert the advantage to a win, and it's also not obvious that some move is a blunder until after it becomes obvious.

1700 rating is not very clearly defined since different Chess websites uses different ranking system and the rating can vary dramatically. For example, on average there are 400 points difference between chess.com and lichess.com ranking.

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