>>503471628>what's your rating btw?Higher than yours apparently, and an actual FIDE one. Can you stick to the actual meat of the topic, instead of arguing by "I played for X years," or "but my dad worked at the Najdorf factory and I love him so much so I know it inside out" and stick to the topic?
>>503480338Oh get a grip, you went from "losing out of the opening" to "largely disadvantageous" and now you're complaining about vagueness?
We have a concrete variation, the poisoned pawn variation of the Najdorf, where you cannot just mindlessly castle and expect to be ok.
Which specific part of this do you object to?
If you want to refine your statement to
>>503474027>at the ~1800 level, you can generally follow basic principles and you'll be finethen yes, that's true, but the specific claim was
>>503466645>I can't think of any opening that puts you into a largely disadvantageous position by following those principles even if you don't have specific lines memorized.which is outright false, and has many counterexamples.
If you intended this to be specific to a 1800-ish level, then fine, who cares, they'll blunder in the middlegame anyway. But this statement in and of itself is wrong.
