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Black openings

 With the London system I scored 8.5 out of 9. So it might seem logical to try to find a similar system for black. But that is not as easy as it seems. When you try to claim the same amount of space as white, you continue to feel the disadvantage of being a tempo behind. Besides that, there is a tendency to end up with symmetrical positions.  So I adopted a different idea for playing with black. I  take an asymmetrical approach as soon as possible. Thus dictating the course of the opening from the first moves on. Giving white a space advantage, usually at the cost of pawn minority in the center. So the long term prospects of black are OK, if I can ward off whites attack. The only problem being that I have to learn how to play chess.  But since that is something I wanted to learn anyway, that is just a minor drawback. It only takes some time. Learning a total new repertoire with black against everything  that white can throw at you is time consuming. How timeconsuming is that? We are ta

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