Good luck with the tournament! I hope you do well! For me against d4, I feel pretty comfortable playing a Semi-Slav Defense. I enjoy the positions that follow and the engine gives Black equal play no matter what White plays.
Periodization is something I'm familiar with - but not in the domain of chess haha.
I may be a bit biased - but I've always felt the Nimzo is one of the easiest ways to combat 1.d4 given its flexibility (though as you mentioned in another post - you still need to figure out what to do when White avoids it).
These are certainly great openings, what many of the best engines will do if you just let them play their top choice. I struggle with the work/reward of learning the Nimzo, but it's certainly a great opening.
Good Luck with prepping and with the tournament. Nice approach.
An interesting post. Thanks!
Against 1.d4 the Gruenfeld leaves black satisfied to many GMs.
Thanks for the article and good play I the venue :)
KID is my fav against d4
What about the Chessable KIS for Black repertoire by Sielecki ? The answer to 1.d4 is the QGD based on 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 a6.
Good luck with the tournament! I hope you do well! For me against d4, I feel pretty comfortable playing a Semi-Slav Defense. I enjoy the positions that follow and the engine gives Black equal play no matter what White plays.
An interesting surprise weapon against 1. d4 is the english rat defense, I'm not sure if you can learn it in one month though. . .
What is the English Rat???
Nice post.
Periodization is something I'm familiar with - but not in the domain of chess haha.
I may be a bit biased - but I've always felt the Nimzo is one of the easiest ways to combat 1.d4 given its flexibility (though as you mentioned in another post - you still need to figure out what to do when White avoids it).
Interesting... I always felt like the Nimzo is a great opening, but hard to learn because there are so many different structures.
These are certainly great openings, what many of the best engines will do if you just let them play their top choice. I struggle with the work/reward of learning the Nimzo, but it's certainly a great opening.