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ifoody

Well, people all the time ask about opening repertoires here, and i thought it would just be nice if people here will represent their own repertoire.

I play 1.e4 with scotch and closed sicilian, main lines for the rest.

As black i play the four knights sicilian against 1.e4 and the grunfeld against 1.d4.

What is your repertorie?

12yearskid

Israel! My great grandfather was Jew.

InDetention
12yearskid wrote:

Israel! My great grandfather was Jew.

LOL!

InDetention
12yearskid wrote:

Israel! My great grandfather was Jew.

LOL!

Lizarazu94

With white I open with 1. d4 as positional play suits me better. Against Grünfeld and KID I keep the position fairly closed; I do not play main lines.

With black I actually do favor sharp play, probably because it is generally believed that being black you need to equalize first before you can get a decent advantage so I figured I might as well play sharp right away. I play the Sicilian Scheveningen Najdorf style, so I first play Najdorf 5.. a6 and regardless of White's 6th move I will respond 6.. e6

Against 1. d4 I play either Nimzo-Indian or Queen's-Indian, as I pretty much always play b6 followed by Bb7 in Nimzo-Indian too it makes sense to play those together, sometimes they completely synchronize in my games. 

EvgeniyZh

1. d4 with Queen Gambit fr white, Slav against 1.d4, Caro-Kann against 1. e4

cornbeefhashvili

WHITE:

1.e4, mainly aiming for an Evans Gambit, but can also play against Two Knights since that is also my main defense.

Bd3 variation vs Sicilian

Two Knights vs Caro-Kann

d3, Qe2 vs French

150 Attack vs Modern/Pirc

e4/d4 phalanx against everything else that does not contend for the center.

 

BLACK: 

1.e4(c4) e5 2. ... Nc6

Kings Indian formation against 1.d4 or other flank openings.

ThrillerFan

WHITE:

1.e4 - a3-Sicilian, Four Knights, Main Line and Fantasy Caro-Kann, Advance French, Main Line Alekhine (4.Nf3), Austrian Attack against Pirc/Modern

1.d4 - Colle, Torre, Trompowsky, Dangerfield Attack, Transpositions to Slav, Pirc, French

1.Nf3 - Catalan, Slav, Fianchetto KID/Grunfeld/Benoni

BLACK

Against 1.e4 - Modern, 1...e5 (Berlin, Steinitz Deferred, Latvian, Petroff), Caro-Kann

Against 1.d4 - Modern, Stonewall/Classical Dutch, Triangle Defense (Noteboom/Marshall Gambit), Tarrasch Defense, Tartakower Defense, Orthodox Defense

Lizarazu94
ThrillerFan wrote:

WHITE:

1.e4 - a3-Sicilian


no doubt u meant c3-Sicilian Laughing

Swindlers_List

As white:
1.c4:
Only non-pure english lines are Saemisch KID and Maroczy bind.

As black:

1..g6: Generally Sniper lines, I occasionly transpose to a leningrad dutch.

netzach

According to your archive you mainly play 1.d4? (129 times c.c)

Contrasting with 1.c4 (13 times c.c) listed. @Assault

I am experimenting with five different openings. The aim being to eventually complete 100+ games in each with white.

copticov

My opening reptoire.

1. Sicilian Najdorf

2. Sicilian Najdorf

3. Sicilian Najdorf

4. e4

5. Ruy Lopez

6. I mix things up without memorizing much opening info.

copticov

To put it best, this is my line as white: e4 c5 Nf3 d6 d4 cxd4 Nxd4 Nf6 Nc3 a6 Bg5 e6 f4 YOU'VE WASTED YOUR LIFE!

Ben_Dubuque

My opening Repetoir goes bettr in a diagram

 

As white

As Black

I only included mainlines and only then up till a few defining moves of a variation


copticov

I also play the Scandanavian Defense, especially in bullet. (As black, of course.)

Swindlers_List
netzach wrote:

According to your archive you mainly play 1.d4? (129 times c.c)

Contrasting with 1.c4 (13 times c.c) listed. @Assault

I am experimenting with five different openings. The aim being to eventually complete 100+ games in each with white.

yeah, those are all from some time back when I had many CC games running at a time. nowadays I generally only go in for occasional blitz games. If you look at my black, ive yet to play 1..g6 in a CC game.

netzach

I did notice that (no g6) also :)

But adaptation/change/flexibility is what makes it a "repertoire"?

Those posting here with only one opening have none at all. 

Luvrug

as white ill generally go for the latvian clog dance or the underated maltese carpet frog. black for me usually ends up as the standard classics. namely the lesbian sparrow, the mexican 5 knights with the obvious diabetic variation.

achja

With white : 1.c4 but also 1.b3, 1.d4,1.e4 and ocassionaly 1.Nh3, 1.f4, 1.g3, 1.b4, 1.g4, 1.Nf3

With black : Sicilian, Modern Defense, Nimzo-Indian, Bogo-Indian, KID, Old Indian, BenOni Wall, Modern BenOni, Volga gambit, French, Owen defense.

LazyChessPlayer3201

----------------> http://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/lcp-chess-lessons-part-6-creating-your-opening 

 

Here I write on my opening and about other lines, me just trying to help anyone who really do not have a opening.