There are many solid chess openings but I’m going to show you the top ten most solid chess openings that there are. First maybe I should define a solid chess opening; a solid chess opening is a chess opening characterized by minimal risk taking and quiet positional play rather than sharp tactical lines. Solid positions in general tend to be very hard to crack and maybe hard for a beginner to recognize but an experienced chess player can tell right away whether or not a position is solid or tactical. Anyway here is a countdown of the most solid openings in chess.
Everything fits pretty easily into the board. The board doesn’t even look like one that folds up once it’s open, but flip it over, put the pieces in, latch it, and you’re all set to put it on a bookcase. I’m really glad I got this. One day I’m going to get a chess table. It’s going to go right next to my grand piano in my martini lounge. Ha! But until then, I’m very satisfied with this one!
In a 2003 article concerning the world’s strongest nonagenarian (the strongest active player in chess in the world aged ninety or older), the authors gave a possible answer. The information was provided by writers Neil Sullivan and Yves Casaubon. The strongest nonagenarian in ChessBase’s opinion at the time was Arkadiy M. Gilman (rated FIDE 2237 in 2003), who hails from Russia and lives in Canada.
Insufficient material – a player may claim a draw if the opponent has insufficient material to checkmate, for example if the player has only the king left and the opponent has only the king and a bishop. Such a claim is only valid if checkmate is impossible. Under the revised rule that took effect on 1 July 2009, which only refers to the impossibility of reaching checkmate without explicitly relating this to the players’ material, the game is ended immediately in a draw, not requiring a claim by a player.
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One could have deduced that from the game itself. The opening was rather odd. White’s body language and clock use suggested, in fact, that something started going wrong fairly early. Carlsen with the white pieces started yet again with a Reti, the non-commital 1.Nf3, and he transposed rapidly into an English, rather than going for a repeat of the first game.
Material – if you are winning by 1 pawn, it’s quite enough. If you can exchange all other pieces on the board, and reduce the game to King and Pawn vs King, it’s an 80{82b217daa7d0c4e6e96a8f952ca3bea794bfcc4c2b19deef4db2b9b0fd13adf7} chance you will win and 20{82b217daa7d0c4e6e96a8f952ca3bea794bfcc4c2b19deef4db2b9b0fd13adf7} chance you will draw! So if you are winning by a rook or knight or better still – queen – then it’s a good sign to finish it. Exchange everything and reduce it to the smallest number possible and you will win, aka an imbalanced algebraic equation.