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Re: Finding GM matches for your repertoire
Reply #5 - 03/07/13 at 16:34:57
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The way I do it is by using "opening reference" on either my TWIC database or MegaDatabase 2013. Then I will put in a position I like, for example starting position of a6 Slav, and then I'll copy down the names of 2700+ (I will go lower a lot of the time) GM's who play it frequently. I will then do another search on another opening position I like, such as: Berlin, Na6 King's Indian, Caro-Kann, Marshall Attack or certain Najdorf positions. And if any GM's appear in more than one of my searches, I'll do a dossier search, and quickly play through a lot of their games, to see if their style matches my own, if it does, this is a GM I'll follow. 

From the White side I like: Kramnik, Gelfand and Radjabov.
From the Black side: McShane, Malakhov, Ju, Bologan, Bacrot, Jobava, Wojtaszek,
  
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Re: Finding GM matches for your repertoire
Reply #4 - 03/07/13 at 10:13:30
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A lot of GMs don't vary their repertoire too much. If you study specific opening lines, you come over their names again and again. Michael Adams comes to my mind - e.g. he is probably to leading expert in 3.Nd2 lines in the French; or take Arkhangel by Caruana.

For sure there are GMs that are able to open with left and right hand and have various replies with Black. But if you look at their repertoires you see the pet lines they play. 

If it is useful for an amateuer to follow a Top-GM is a different question. Maybe it's better to pick out someone who is around 2.400 to 2.500 but has a slightly exotic repertoire. This may be more suprising to your opponents.
  
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Re: Finding GM matches for your repertoire
Reply #3 - 03/07/13 at 09:19:41
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And you can do it the other way around; if there is a GM you think will be a close match, you can do a dossier on that GM to check his/her repertoire. But you can only do that for one GM at a time.
  
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Re: Finding GM matches for your repertoire
Reply #2 - 03/07/13 at 00:24:23
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The Chessbase Opening Report feature will give you this sort of information for a single position, but there's nothing for a whole repertoire.
  
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Re: Finding GM matches for your repertoire
Reply #1 - 03/06/13 at 23:28:28
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There may be such a function in newer Chessbase versions, but I'm not aware of one in the dinosaur Chessbase 9 which I'm still using.

Many GMs play some of these as backup lines to their main (sharper) repertoire. But Sam Collins himself should be a good match, as is Sergei Tiviakov (except for the Caro). John Emms has also written about most of the lines you mention; he has played the French Tarrasch regularly for years but not sure about the others.
  

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Finding GM matches for your repertoire
03/06/13 at 23:18:10
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One of the common pieces of advice given to improving players is to play through master games.  To that end, I'm wondering if any of the well known software packages (like Chessbase for example) have a tool with which you can offer up your repertoire and then find any GMs who commonly play pretty much all those exact lines.  I guess I could do this by trial and error but I am curious if there is a more efficient way that I might be missing (i.e the lazy man's repertoire tool).

As white I have been playing the lines recommended by Sam Collins in his 1 e4 DVD (Italian with d3, c3 Sicilian, Panov against Caro-Kann and Tarrasch against French).  Collins mentions some heroes in each line but I'm not sure he mentioned anyone who plays them all.
  
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