What's your favorite opening?
Chess has a ton of names for different positions, from Frankenstein Dracula to Toilet's opening (from the Sicilian), there are a ton openings and variations

What's your favorite opening?

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First off, we comply the most common openings I see played.

Italian Game

Another set from the king's pawn openings, this is one of the most common openings I see played, not only by kids, but also by a lot of adults. My guess is that since 1. This is opening is easy to memorize 2. It has lot's of suspense in it but the basic rules are easy to follow 3. The attacking formats are easy, Center Control, Development (Bishops out and Knights out), Castle your King, and bring your pieces to your opponent's king. However, there are many ways to block it, such as Sicilian, French Defense, Caro-Kann, and so on.

King's Gambit

This is also quite common, but I don't play this as much, so I'm gonna just go over what I like.

                                                                         Scotch Game

I play this a lot, and it is quite fun. You can play Scotch Gambit, or just the normal Scotch Game. I like it quite a lot, as I study it, too.

Fishing Rod

My chess coach taught me this a long time ago, and it is a very strong attack on the castles king, and it starts with a bishop sacrifice. It's very good, and I use it quite a lot, but you have to be patient, as your opponent can play many things that 'alters' the position, such as taking the pawn, or doing the fork trick, etc. You can simply block this position by 1. NOT attacking the bishop and just continue with development 2. Alter the thing by NOT playing by the normal Italian (or Vienna in this case) 3. Flip the board and resign

Italian Game- Blackburne Shilling Gambit

This is a good gambit, I must admit, however this position backfires if your opponent DOESN'T move there rook, and instead you got a horrible development downside. You're equal in material, but that's pretty much all. So, like most positions, if your opponent doesn't play by the plan, it alters into something not that good. Blocking this is easy, as you simply just take the knight when it comes into d4, because if you don't and you try the move the rook like

You can obviously see that White has a horrible position,  not material-wise, but position wise.

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