


Rich's jerky comment in response to my post doesn't merit a response from anyone. I think the definition given above states pretty clearly the difference both styles fight for central control, they just do it differently.Ī free piece of advice to folks who think responding to a misbehaving teenager is a good idea: When immature kids act out to get attention, the best response is to simply ignore them. Certainly the Ruy Lopez (Spanish) is as classical as one can get, but it's hardly a "non-positional" opening. I think Paranoid-Android has a good point. The two hypermodern openings I play are 1.Nf3 and Nimzo-Indian, but they don't seem to result in typical hypermodern positions. I enjoy closed positions and I play 1.d4 as white, French and Caro-kann as black, which are all classical openings, I think. I don't think classical openings necessarily mean tactical games.

I like the classical, but the modern is real chess.
