an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 03/28/18 at 02:59:44:
“I’m not backing off from giving my opinion on an internet forum, on whichever topics catch my interest.
You're of course free to share your opinions, but you could do it in a more civil manner.
BobbyDigital80 wrote on 03/29/18 at 11:05:51:
I was talking about using the Triangle move order to avoid the exchange Slav. And yeah, not interested in the Noteboom...
I went through some similar thinking when I stopped playing the Noteboom but still wanted to play the Meran and Botvinnik (actually Moscow) lines. The Triangle (1...d5, 2...e6, 3...c6) move order is feasible, but in addition to the Marshall Gambit, White has some other good tries. There is 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c6 4.Qc2, when if 4...Nf6 5.Bg5. There are also many Catalan-like lines that you'll have to be willing to play, or proper Closed Catalan positions, such as after 3.Nf3 c6 4.g3, 4.Nbd2, 4.Qc2 Nf6 5.g3, etc.
Eventually I decided that for me, it was better to simply allow White to play the Exchange Slav and went for the 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 move order. That also makes White think about his third move, as 3.Nc3 might be met with 3...e5 or 3...dxc4, for instance. Even if you don't intend to play those lines, White doesn't necessarily know that. So in a way I felt that it gave White more things to prepare against--unless he was going to just play the Exchange, of course.