This is the playing style of my teammates and I as perceived by me. Hope you enjoy reading this.
FICS ID: Slek (Real Name: Samuel)
Playing style: He is a highly tactical player who is very resourceful in finding ways to complicate the position and often plays positions where he exchanges a bishop for a knight or even both bishops for both knights. His attacks in irrational positions with pieces hanging everywhere is of a very high standard. Watching his games is nerve-wracking and he packs games with excitement. His weak area is dry endgame positions with limited material or peaceful formations with more material.
FICS ID nraravind (Real Name: Aravind)
Playing style: He plays a variety of openings within a range of his preparation. He frequently plays unexpected moves and is not bogged down by positional prejudices. His greatest forte is practical play and
he can continue brazenly when he enters awkward positions, where more conventional players lose their nerve. He can attack well as well as play positionally but the striking feature of his play is the practical unprejudiced thinking and he doesn't burden himself with theory or specific techniques. In positions where nothing game changing is happening to either side, he has limitless patience and can just keep the position together playing moves that do not jeopardise the harmony of the formation. His main weakness is in positions that have gone downhill and require dour defence, he tends to prefer a counter-strike which is not the best option in all such situations.
FICS ID: alexmontes (Real Name: Alejandro)
Playing style: He currently plays a small set of openings and is looking to expand his repertoire greatly. He is really thorough with the standard formations that arise from his openings and plays strongly in the middle game. Most often Alejandro's victories come straight out of thin air. It looks like nothing is happening and pieces are being slowly moved into the right places, and then he strikes and it is all over. The end is a quick flurry and powerful, delightful to watch. He is also a good fighter defending and actively seeking counter-chances when faced with difficult positions. He is tactically very strong (complex combinations as against wild dynamic play).
FICS ID: blore (Real Name: Rahul)
Playing style: He relies a lot on learning a mass of opening theory from a wide variety of openings regularly. He plays some openings more frequently than others and these change with time, but he plays most openings, with the exception of some really sharp ones like the king's Gambit. He often uses ideas from one opening in another and improvises. He is good at handling quiet positions with a positional advantage and frequently prefers reducing material with early exchanges. He plays attacks but usually only those which grow slowly and takeoff in the late middle game to early endgame stages. His strongest suit is winning equal and plus endgames and defending minus endgames mostly honed by extensive study of endgame technique from text books. He can spot simple or marginally difficult tactics well. His weakest link is in handling wild positions with an explosion of options and he frequently loses the thread rarely managing to find the right continuation.
FICS ID: Slek (Real Name: Samuel)
Playing style: He is a highly tactical player who is very resourceful in finding ways to complicate the position and often plays positions where he exchanges a bishop for a knight or even both bishops for both knights. His attacks in irrational positions with pieces hanging everywhere is of a very high standard. Watching his games is nerve-wracking and he packs games with excitement. His weak area is dry endgame positions with limited material or peaceful formations with more material.
FICS ID nraravind (Real Name: Aravind)
Playing style: He plays a variety of openings within a range of his preparation. He frequently plays unexpected moves and is not bogged down by positional prejudices. His greatest forte is practical play and
he can continue brazenly when he enters awkward positions, where more conventional players lose their nerve. He can attack well as well as play positionally but the striking feature of his play is the practical unprejudiced thinking and he doesn't burden himself with theory or specific techniques. In positions where nothing game changing is happening to either side, he has limitless patience and can just keep the position together playing moves that do not jeopardise the harmony of the formation. His main weakness is in positions that have gone downhill and require dour defence, he tends to prefer a counter-strike which is not the best option in all such situations.
FICS ID: alexmontes (Real Name: Alejandro)
Playing style: He currently plays a small set of openings and is looking to expand his repertoire greatly. He is really thorough with the standard formations that arise from his openings and plays strongly in the middle game. Most often Alejandro's victories come straight out of thin air. It looks like nothing is happening and pieces are being slowly moved into the right places, and then he strikes and it is all over. The end is a quick flurry and powerful, delightful to watch. He is also a good fighter defending and actively seeking counter-chances when faced with difficult positions. He is tactically very strong (complex combinations as against wild dynamic play).
FICS ID: blore (Real Name: Rahul)
Playing style: He relies a lot on learning a mass of opening theory from a wide variety of openings regularly. He plays some openings more frequently than others and these change with time, but he plays most openings, with the exception of some really sharp ones like the king's Gambit. He often uses ideas from one opening in another and improvises. He is good at handling quiet positions with a positional advantage and frequently prefers reducing material with early exchanges. He plays attacks but usually only those which grow slowly and takeoff in the late middle game to early endgame stages. His strongest suit is winning equal and plus endgames and defending minus endgames mostly honed by extensive study of endgame technique from text books. He can spot simple or marginally difficult tactics well. His weakest link is in handling wild positions with an explosion of options and he frequently loses the thread rarely managing to find the right continuation.
I have to object to that, I have been willing to extend my opening repertory for years, but I have always been lazy to study the required theory. I have played some Benoni or Benko Gambit, but with not too much success. If I already struggle with the openings I am familiar with, imagine with those that I am not.
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Will edit it right away.
ReplyDeleteIt was not a request to have the profile edited, it was more a little joke. Just wanted to make it clear that I am not proud of my limited repertory.
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