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Originally Posted by Skybird
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Can't say I blame you on the Nimzo-Indian. I never liked that close-quarters stuff. Give me room for my pieces to move!
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You are like a computer - their preferences are the same.  That's why I keep it closed as long as possible when playing computers. Else, in open positions they bring their characteristic strengths to full effect.
Nothing against Nimzo-Indian - but with Black only.  Obviously Scandium doesn't like English with Black. And I don't like Indian Defenses, Modern Benoni with White.  |
I'm not overly fond of the English no
Interestingly I do like (and used to play it as much as I could) Benoni systems as well the Nimzo-Indian (as black for both), though I haven't had as much experience with the Nimzo.
My favourite opening with black against 1.d4 systems though is the Budapest Gambit. Unfortunately it requires a very exact move order which white rarely plays these days, so little opportunity to use it or hone one's skill with it. All the same I think I've taken one of the worst beatings ever against a skilled player of it during one of my brief forays into the realm of 1.d4 (I mostly play 1.e4).
Computers do tend to handle complex closed positions poorly, but I had one of my best upsets against one of the stronger online computers on FICS (there are a handful of bots online of varying strengths to play if the mood strikes or during offpeak hours when opponents are scarcer) in an open game. The computer had an online rating of 2200 versus my rating at the time of about 1800 (I should mention this isn't blitz by the way... they move way too quickly for blitz
) and I drew it, with black, in a N ending with several pawns that involved a N sac to create drawing chances (many moves later I got the draw, the sac was intuitive and not calculated so I have no idea how sound it was, having forgotten any post-game analysis I might have conducted). I still have that game in my online journal, preserved for posterity
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At any rate, from that experience I concluded that they don't handle certain endings well either, due to their materialism. Unless its in their tablebase, then they will play the ending to perfection.