One of my best ....

The first occasion I played this was when I was seven years old and did not know that pawns may move two squares from their initial position. It was also the first chess game I ever played.

The second occasion has yet to come.

I have played this before and won the game as well. it is very interesting opening

it's the most basic opening and not so good for white.since white can control the middle board so playing so much defensive is surely not in favor for white.

The opening is named after Maarten van 't Kruijs (1813-1885).  Sometimes his last name is spelled Kruys.  A lot of books write this opening as Van't Kruijs instead of the more correct van 't Kruijs (there is a space between the van and the 't).  He also seems to be the first person of note to play Larsen's opening (1.b3) as he did in Amsterdam in 1851 against de Heer.  Adolf Anderssen defeated van 't Kruijs in Amsterdam in 1861 with 5 wins, 2 draws, and 1 loss, but Anderssen still considered him one of the 10 best players he had ever played.  van 't Kruijs may have been the first person to play or invent what is known as Fischer Random chess, with the position of the pieces set up randomly.

well........in list of worse things ...starting from #5

5.death

4.death(cant think of another) :)

3.1,h4

2.war

1.this opening

The only time I played this opening was when I moved my pawn up and hit submit before I saw that I had moved it up only one spaces. It was a rather hard gmae but I did win it! :)

what's up with this opening?????????

Queens gambit, not this. this is not ambitious enough

To me, at least, this opening is best countered if you are black by a queenside fianchetto, as well as sometime playing e6 to get your dark bishop out to attack the enemy knight- its okay, you can get rid of it, in fact, its better if you do because enemy pawns want to control the dark squares.

interesting openning!!

bad , BAD

I like it. And @ DarkMorphon, it is not the French as that is when Black plays 1... e6 in response to 1.e4.

actually thiz iz a good black opening move

anyone?

Ruy lopez is the way to go....not this

I'm not a very good chess player but wouldn't it make more sense to move the pawn up to spaces so as not to block the dark square bishop?

People who discount this opening as terrible should really study the mid and end game possibilities.  Yes, at first it may seem passive yet during mid game it not only allows for a good defense against bishop pins it gives push to regain (if lost) the ever so important center.

Also opening the Queen and White Bishop early can give you a good feel for blacks intentions.