CHESS: Is the Colle opening for white limited?
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010 at
2:49 pm
I have heard that it can stunt a chess player’s growth; however, I have gone up 400 points in my USCF rating in the last 12 months alone and have done well with the Colle against players up to 2200. I don’t have any GM aspirations or anything, but I also don’t want to run into a wall since I only play one opening with white.
I have the Colle is limited and realize its not played at the highest levels, but it this really true?
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It is considered a stable position but does not offer much fluidity of play. The resulting play is even sided. In other words, by playing Colle System White does not gain any specific advantage against a Black player who plays correctly. Because of this the Colle System is hardly ever seen in higher level tournaments. However Colle Zukertort System is sometimes played at master level tournaments.
Colle System can be used to avoid other openings. This is especially important in fast play involved in Blitz chess where player may not have time to remember the wrong moves in book variations and can make mistakes.
A variation of Colle System is called Colle Zukertort System. This has the White moves: 1 d4, 2 Nf3, 3 e3, 4 Bd3, 5 b3, 6 Bb2, 7 Nbd2, and 8 0-0.The difference is the Bishop at b2. In other words, here White will develop both Bishops while Black will try to mitigate their effects.
Hope that helps!