1. d4
e4 is one of the best poenings in chess because you can play the queens gambit which is reccomended for noobs and they cant take on d4 because you can take back with your queen
I use 1. ..e6 against both 1. e4 and 1. d4. The French Defense, which it often transposes to after 1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5, is solid all around and very dynamic when played properly, and if white plays 2. c4 instead, you have good options with 2. ..b6 (the English Defense), 2. ..c5 which usually transposes into the Modern Benoni after 3. d5 Nf6, and the always solid 2. ..Nf6, which will branch into a suite of Indian Defenses (the dynamic Nimzo- and Bogo-Indian defenses among them).
I specifically don't recommend 1. ..d5, because that gives the 1. d4 player the closed game they're usually looking for. The standard 1. ..Nf6 is solid but also very committal, and there's the anti-Indian Trumpowsky attack to worry about, which can be quite sharp. The advantage of 1. ..e6 is that it forces white to really commit to a plan in the center, which with patience and hypermodern principles (to be found in Aron Nimzowitsch's book My System) is easily dealt with.
Only good for nothing sore losing idiots abort! You abort enough times and they will limit your play to that against other aborters, and you'll wait a long time to get a game at all.
As far as what I do against 1.d4, I most of the time play the Dutch, but via 1...e6 and then 2...f5, to avoid certain gambit lines, like 2.e4 or 2.g4, or the annoying 2.Bg5.
White can still play 2.e4, but then I play 2...d5 and you are no longer in a Dutch, you are in a French.
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