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Ep. 66: Starting Chess at a "Late" Age feat. NM Anthony Levin

The Chess Angle

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The Importance of Changing Openings

At the club level, you can probably get away with that more. But it's like you said, you're not going to fool them. And that's the thing with the title players and the strong players. You have the slightest little vulnerability in your game. They're going to find it. It is annoying when you're playing somebody higher rated and they already have an opening advantage against you. A while ago, I picked up the Sicilian Nydorff. This is like many years ago. For me, that used to be a new opening. Now everybody knows about Nydorf player. Yeah. So sharp, sharp stuff.

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