Aggressive attacking repertoire for white with 1.d4?

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How do you define attacking?

When playing 1.d4 White seldom go berserk unless you are looking for some Blackmar-Diemer or 2.Nc3/3.e4 sort of thing.

If you are looking for putting pressure on Black, then 2.c4 is the attacking move.

But I also think eg the Tromp 2.Nf6 Bg5 feels rather attacking.

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Depends on what your looking for. (your going to spend some midnight oil booking up on what ever you go with)

I don't like gambits (Like the BDG) when you understand where you are to put your pieces to thwart the specific gambit, the gambiteer seems to to fight an uphill battle.

Two choices...

Theoretical

or

Practical 

Theoretical.... You go with mainlines, booking up on variations, and like a professional tennis player, your looking to crush your opponent with the initial serve (i.e. your opening prep!)

Practical...  You go with openings that focus on concepts and positions, not as sharp as main lines, they offer Black variable choices. They are practical because they become dangerous around move 10 when the positions focus in on the concepts. The London, The Torre, The Tromp... The KIA, The Colle. .... like a Professional Tennis players known for having a great volley, back and forth they maneuver their opponent out of position, thus making a return impossible... (You with the opening, maneuver your opponent into bad positions where positional and tactical schemes are at your disposal.

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Toldsted wrote: "How do you define attacking? When playing 1.d4 White seldom go berserk unless you are looking for some Blackmar-Diemer or 2.Nc3/3.e4 sort of thing. If you are looking for putting pressure on black, then 2.c4 is the attacking move. But I also think eg the Tromp 2.Nf6 Bg5 feels rather attacking." I will allow gambit suggestions if they give a deadly attack in return.

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dcyftukd skrev:

Toldsted wrote: "How do you define attacking? When playing 1.d4 White seldom go berserk unless you are looking for some Blackmar-Diemer or 2.Nc3/3.e4 sort of thing. If you are looking for putting pressure on black, then 2.c4 is the attacking move. But I also think eg the Tromp 2.Nf6 Bg5 feels rather attacking." I will allow gambit suggestions if they give a deadly attack in return.

White never get a deadly attack by will. It needs Black being very materialistic or blundering.

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D4 D5, nc3 nf6, nf3 nc6, bf4 e6, nb5 a6, nxc7
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jobava london seems the best to me

you also have some lines with g4 in qgd

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yuviraggarwal wrote:

jobava london seems the best to me

you also have some lines with g4 in qgd

Yup I was gonna same thing. Some of the most aggressive lines following 1d4 are in the jobava London I think.

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"You must take your opponent into a deep, dark forest where 2 + 2 = 5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one."

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torre attack . you have no idea how often white gets a massive attack on blacks kingside, esp if they play a QID-ish structure.

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Every opening sequence which gives away material for nothing is an "aggressive attacking" opening at your level.

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Something like the jobava London is fairly aggressive as d4 openings go. Otherwise, I’d play e4

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E4 better d4 bad

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queen's gambit is the ONLY aggressive opening if you play d4.

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there are two systems beginning with d4 (colle and london) but playing these openings are unrelevant what the opponent act (like you can actually premove the systems) so yeah

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ChessUnicorn_CN wrote:

queen's gambit is the ONLY aggressive opening if you play d4.

Bud, I ain’t even a d4 player and I know this is not true 😭

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Its an odd question because "attacking" can mean many different things.
Given your constraints, one option is the Trompowsky + the QGD exchange. Another is c4/d4, looking for specific aggressive lines against every response from black. That takes alot more time and study but d4 is a positional opening, and trying to make it into an e4 opening early I don't think is the way to go.

I played the Jovava / Veresov for a while... I would describe the resulting positions as "positionally messy" more than I would "attacking". Some lines are attacking, but usually it results in just an odd position where the pawn structures are messy and strange, but still it plays positionally like a queens pawn opening. There are also lines where black can neutralize your opening and get early trades, and in those lines the game can become a bit boring.

I also played the Torre for a while (from the Trompowsky). If we're saying the Torre is attacking, pretty much any white opening is attacking. You're playing a london pawn structure. Often you're pushing pawns on the flanks. It's more attacking than the London, but that's a low bar... it's nothing like an e4 line.

If you want tactical and attacking, e4 is better. If you want attacking but offbeat, 1. Nc3 transposing into some e4 position is the way to go.

If you want a queens gambit repertoire with an e4 edge to it in many lines, the Reti can achieve that. The Reti has great attacking lines which you won't find in typical d4 positions against 1... d5 (Reti gambit), 1... f5 (Lisitsyn gambit), 1... c5 (two knights sicilian), and against 1... e6 you can get a two knights french if you like.

Then you're just left with playing a QGD against 1... Nf6, or possibly a KIA. Against the slav, there are many aggressive lines available to white, that's not a problem. What you need is an aggressive response to the QGD, where Nf3 has been played already.

Against the Tartakower, there's the Dubov gambit which is 8. g4. Pretty much no one knows this one.

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Keep it Simple 1.d4 by Christof Sielecki, will give you what you are looking for and still be playable in the future 😉