00:00spending time with your computer and looking for some novelties because you have to be well aware
00:08about new moves made by strong players because if it's a popular opening something happens all the
00:13time as we speak you know somewhere on this on our planet chess players are testing these positions
00:19and something else can happen before we end our conversation and you can also look for some
00:27relatively quiet openings when I say quiet it's not as sharp where you can have luxury of relying
00:35on your or your knowledge again we're talking exclusively as because you're talking to me
00:42exclusively about open or semi-open because as e4 as you notice I talked about c5 or e5 there is
00:51also e6 this is semi-open like e6 and c6 caracan or or pierce so fiancating the bishop
01:00technically c5 is also semi-open but I cannot call Sicilian semi-open for me it's the most open
01:07position one can one can hope for I will go over some of the personal experiences in more detail in
01:17case study just to uh give you more insight in the way I made decisions in some of the openings but now
01:24we're just uh just looking at this at the sort of the whole uh story of my professional chess life of
01:31this journey from the kid in Baku who learned from first learned from David Bronstein 200 open games and
01:38uh and uh and uh uh then learned from his first teacher how to play skeven again uh and then learned
01:44from uh another teacher how to play caracan um and just you know recognizing that you can play e4 and
01:50then also d4 and by the way in e4 for a while I was under a strong influence of of fisher and uh in
01:57uh in the rule obviously took took took took on c6
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