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katar Senior Member Offline look another year went by Posts: 455 Location: LA Joined: 09/21/05 Gender:	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #7 - 09/30/15 at 20:29:02	Post Tools	Print Post
	LeeRoth wrote on 09/30/15 at 18:35:30: Yes, agree. I too was thinking of guys who really champion a particular line or defense. Everyone knows its coming, its not considered to be all that great, and yet . . . Tamaz Gelashvili: 1.e4 c5 2.b3

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kylemeister God Member Offline Posts: 4909 Location: USA Joined: 10/24/05	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #6 - 09/30/15 at 19:36:44	Post Tools	Print Post
	Re Kozul, it could be noted that his latest rating is only 26 points lower than his peak rating (reached 11 years ago at age 38). BTW his suicide variation is advocated on a new DVD by Marin.


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MartinC God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 2073 Joined: 07/24/06	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #5 - 09/30/15 at 19:33:39	Post Tools	Print Post
	I suppose even someone as prestigious as Kramnik has sort of earned this title at times. 'Odd' thing there though in that a lot of the things he's brought back turn very fashionable very quickly


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LeeRoth God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 1520 Joined: 10/22/05	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #4 - 09/30/15 at 18:35:30	Post Tools	Print Post
	TonyRo wrote on 09/30/15 at 16:50:04: Bagirov - Alekhine's Defense Djukic - 3...Qd8 Scandinavian Meier - Rubinstein French Hillarp Persson - Modern with ...a6 Just a few off the top of my head. I purposely left off guys like Larsen, who pioneered a bunch of different offbeat & risky lines, but didn't really specialize in any of them. I think of guys like Morozevich and Jobava in the same way, at least a bit - when you hit that level you can't necessarily "specialize" in anything, you have to keep moving. Yes, agree. I too was thinking of guys who really champion a particular line or defense. Everyone knows its coming, its not considered to be all that great, and yet . . . Bagirov on the Alekhine is a good one. I would add Lev Alburt, who stuck with the ..g6 line that is sometimes named after him despite some bad results. Some other possibilities: Grivas -- the Grivas Sicilian Rausis -- the Baltic Malaniuk -- the Leningrad, although maybe he's made it respectable Kempinski -- his Scheveningen line with ..Na5 (covered by Ftacnik in his Najdorf book)


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brabo God Member Offline Welcome chessfriend Posts: 1068 Joined: 02/02/07	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #3 - 09/30/15 at 17:44:54	Post Tools	Print Post
	Very recentely there was an article on chess.com about if you can still specialize in an opening: http://schaken.chess.com/article/view/kozuls-classical-sicilian So the answer of the American grandmaster Bryan Smith is yes. However even more relevant I found the reaction of the American grandmaster Alexander Lenderman: " I think it depends on what level you want to be. I can't think of any top elite players who have a narrow reportoire(right now). In the past it was possible of course. Kozul is a strong GM but his rating is 2613(not even top 100 in the world) and mostly plays opens against lots of amateurs who don't quite have the same preparation skills or powerful computers or chess understanding that top elite guys have. I'm sure Kozul once had a much much higher ranking. So I'd say that with a narrow reportoire it's hard to maintain a level of 2650 fide or higher, or especially not 2700. " I further added a study of Belgian players which clearly shows that the higher the rating, the broader the repertoire: http://schaken-brabo.blogspot.be/2013/07/de-sterktelijst.html


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TonyRo God Member Offline I'm gonna crack your skull! Posts: 1826 Location: Cleveland, OH Joined: 11/26/07 Gender:	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #2 - 09/30/15 at 16:50:04	Post Tools	Print Post
	Bagirov - Alekhine's Defense Djukic - 3...Qd8 Scandinavian Meier - Rubinstein French Hillarp Persson - Modern with ...a6 Just a few off the top of my head. I purposely left off guys like Larsen, who pioneered a bunch of different offbeat & risky lines, but didn't really specialize in any of them. I think of guys like Morozevich and Jobava in the same way, at least a bit - when you hit that level you can't necessarily "specialize" in anything, you have to keep moving.


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katar Senior Member Offline look another year went by Posts: 455 Location: LA Joined: 09/21/05 Gender:	Re: Opening Specialists Reply #1 - 09/30/15 at 16:31:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	Jonny Hector Richard Rapport Badur Jobava (eg 1.b3) Nils Grandelius (some weird 1.c4 lines iirc) David Smerdon (book author re Portuguese gambit) Alexander Morozevich (book author re Chigorin; Albin CG, French with gxf6/a6/b5, Center Game)

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LeeRoth God Member Offline I love ChessPublishing.com! Posts: 1520 Joined: 10/22/05	Opening Specialists 09/30/15 at 16:06:08	Post Tools	Print Post
	I've been looking at the Kozul Suicide Variation and it got me thinking about GMs who specialize in slightly risky or offbeat lines. Kozul is a pretty obvious example. Can anyone think of any others?


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