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Re: The Kopec system
Reply #6 - 08/01/12 at 07:15:12
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MatrixX wrote on 09/12/09 at 09:23:30:
one question about the Kopec-System: what plays white after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bd3 Nf6 ? if i didn't overlook something, this move order isn't mentioned in this DVD! If white goes for the standard 4.c3, we are just in the normal 3.c3 Nf6 4.Bd3 line and black gets a fine game due to 4...Bg4


This is an interestin post. How about 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bd3 Nf6 4.h3  ? is there something better for black than just a transposition to other lines?
  

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Re: The Kopec system
Reply #5 - 09/12/09 at 09:23:30
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one question about the Kopec-System: what plays white after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bd3 Nf6 ? if i didn't overlook something, this move order isn't mentioned in this DVD! If white goes for the standard 4.c3, we are just in the normal 3.c3 Nf6 4.Bd3 line and black gets a fine game due to 4...Bg4
  

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Re: The Kopec system
Reply #4 - 09/12/09 at 08:59:00
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Thanks tracke great info. I am curious really about this system.
You have apoint that it can be very nice to have beside Bb5 sicilian for instance
  

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Re: The Kopec system
Reply #3 - 09/11/09 at 17:20:15
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First it might be useful to give a table of content of that video. 
I made it some months ago for my own work with that DVD.
(Please note: I´ve tried to identify all games in databases but wasn´t 
completely successful. Some names? might be written totally wrong!)


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Foxy Openings DVD No 30 (1998)   
IM Dr. Danny Kopec : Anti-Sicilian System (2 Nf3 & 3 Bd3)


0:00:00            (Foxy intro trailer)
                       Introduction
0:00:35            The beginning of the Kopec System
                       - avoiding theory in Najdorf and Dragon 
                       - a joke and a practical decision
                       - developing one´s own book lines
0:02:12            1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6/e6/Nc6 3Bd3, general positional considerations:
                       - developing the kingside, blocking the d-pawn, planing c3&Bc2, important diagonals
                       - comparision with KIA, central build up c3&d4, playing a ruy lopez type position
0:04:56            introductional game, shortest win: Kopec - Richard Sowray?
0:09:56            presentation according to pawn structures, not according to precise move order

                       Part 1 - Dragon Set-up: …g6
0:11:18            1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6 3Bd3 Nc6 4c3 g6 5Bc2 Bg7
0:11:44            Game #1 Kopec - Anastasiadis (NewYork 1973): 6 0-0 Nf6 7d3 0-0 8Re1 b5 9Nbd2 Ne8
0:16:16            Game #2 Kopec - Kevin Blaka? (1973) 6 0-0 Nf6 7d3 0-0 8Re1 b5 9Nbd2 Nh5
0:20:10            Game #3 Kopec - Dan Durham (Greywell Open 1986) 6 0-0 Nf6 7h3 0-0
0:24:16            Game #4 Kopec - David Parr? (Hastings 1977) 6 0-0 Bg4
0:27:38            Game #4 Kopec - Huang Fung? (Los Angeles 1986) 6 0-0 e6
0:30:50            Game #5 Kopec - Yuri Oukhose? (Toronto 1993) 6 0-0 Nf6 7h3 d5
0:39:44            Game #6 Kopec - Norman Weinstein (1971) 6d3 Bg4 7Nbd2 Nf6 8h3 Bxf3
0:48:28            Antidote against Ward´s suggestion for Black (RR:wrong position?!)
0:50:50            1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6 3Bd3 Nc6 4c3 Nf6 5Bc2 Bg4 6d3 Ne5?!

                       Part 2 - Russian Set-up: …g6 & …e5            
0:52:00            1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6 3Bd3 g6 4c3 Bg7 5Bc2 Nc6 6 0-0 e5 7d3 Nge7 8Be3 0-0 9h3
0:55:11            Game #7 Kopec - Daniel Shapiro (Panamerican 1975) 9...b6 (f5) 10d4 ed 11cd Ba6
0:58:40            Game #8 Kopec - Daniel Shapiro (“about six month later”) 9...b6 10d4 ed 11cd d5
1:00:18            Game #9 Kopec - Nicholas Asipa? (Panamerican 1974) 8...h6 9d4?!
1:09:14            Game #10 Kopec - Robert Bellin (Edinburgh 1981) dragon with Bc8-g4-d7 and late ...e5
1:27:13            Game #11 Kopec - Alexander Ivanov (New Hampshire 1989) 8...h6 9h3 f5

                       Part 3 - Lopez Set-up: ...e5
1:35:55            1e4 c5 2Nf3 d6 3Bd3 Sc6 4c3 Nf6 5Bc2 e5 
1:36:32            Game #12 Kopec - Ken Stewart (Scotland1976) 6d3 Bg4
1:40:35            Game #13 Kopec – K.Holzmuller (Chicago 1988) 6h3 d5

                       Part 4 - French Set-up: ...e6 & ... d5
1:44:30            1e4 c5 2Nf3 e6 3Bd3 Nc6 4c3 d5 5e5
1:45:50            Game #14 Kopec – Kim Commons (NewYork 1974) 5... Bd7 6 0-0 Nge7
1:51:02            Kopec Gambit: 5... Qc7 6 0-0 (6Qe2/Bb5) Nxe5
1:53: 51           Game #15 Kopec - Craig Prichett (Scotland 1977) 5...Qc7 6 0-0 Nge7 
1:56:27            Game #16 Kopec - Richard Bauer (NewEngland 1987) 3c3 d5 4e5 d4
2:02:32            Game #17 Kopec - John Peters (NewYork 1975) 5...f6 

                       Part 5 - Hybrid Set-ups
2:13:33            1e4 c5 2Nf3 Nc6 3Bd3 Nf6 4c3 
2:14:02            Analysis 4...d5 5e5 Nd7
2:16:00            Game #18 Kopec - Kevin Spraggett (19??) 4...d6 5Bc2 Bg4 6d3 e6 7 0-0 (7Nbd2!)
2:21:05            Game #19 Kopec - Thomas Sloan (Corr 1989-1991) 4...d5 5e5 c4 6Bc2 Ng4
2:28:55            Summary and farewell
2:29:19            (Foxy outro trailer)

(2:29:50)            

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You can see, all games are from Kopec himself and they´re old! Maybe 
that doesn´t matter as theory have not really developed since then. 
It´s just a way to play aside the usual lines. You get some positional ideas  
from the video and between the lines something like a repertoire. Nothing
special, no secret traps, just an equal position to play a game of chess.
Some inspirational games show how things may develope nicely for white
if black plays carelessly or without plan. You might get the same effect 
working hard through some fifty games from a database but of course
it´s easier to watch that video first. Explanations are on 1600-2000 level.
It´s neither overwhelming nor really bad. It´s just the only source 
about an non-tactical offbeat opening. Maybe 4-7 stars out of 10 ...

Imo the Kopec system is too harmless to play it as only or main weapon 
against the Sicilian. But if you already have Bb5 systems, c3 systems, Bc4 
systems etc in your arsenal, it´s surely no mistake to add this system, too.
So far I have only played some blitz/rapid games with it, no real conclusions yet,
but I´m sceptical about 3.Bd3 against 2...e6. And generally 3.c3 & 4.Bd3 
might be better than 3.Bd3 (except, of course, for psychological reasons).

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Re: The Kopec system
Reply #2 - 09/11/09 at 03:58:22
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Go to Kopecchess.com and buy his video!!  And if you like the positions in the video then go for it!!  ALso Kopec does give lessons and has other interesting videos!!
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Reply #1 - 09/10/09 at 11:08:59
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French girl (now GM) Marie Sebag sometimes plays this, hopefully you can find some games in databases.
  
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The Kopec system
09/10/09 at 10:18:15
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There is very little material on the Kopec system. I know just one Foxy DVD.

1.e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6/e6/Nc6 3. Bd3 followed by c3 and Bc2.

Or reached via the 2. Nf3-Alapin move order.

Anyone here who plays or have played this system ? Is it playable nowadays ? Would be interesting to have a real odd repertoire against the sicilians.Is it considered sound ? I know there is another for where white puts his bishop on e2 instead.
  

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