Aggressive Openings against 1. e4?

(the board should be flipped)

nimzowitsch

Depends on how aggressive is defined. 

"pursuing one's aims and interests forcefully, sometimes unduly so"

"ready or likely to attack or confront; characterized by or resulting from aggression"

---Dictionary online. 

I play the 3...Qa5 Scandinavian against 1 e4, and the Tarrasch Defense (a variation of the QGD) against 1 d4.  I'm pursuing my interest in space grab/ freedom of movement, a bit unduly so. 

But being a safe player I'm not really likely to attack (though will if the chance safely enough arises, or I must).   

Why not play the Caro Kann and more solid QGD variations if a safe player?

The Caro Kann is not so safe anymore. In the Tarrasch Defense black's king rarely if ever comes under attack (and if the IQP is lost black still has somewhat of a chance to hold the endgame). 

I play Modern/Pirc and it gets very aggresive often

i mean against e4, as black. you have to rely on whites play for you to be able and go aggressive. truly the Sicilian is the best for that, but playing the most imbalanced opening in chess is most likely not going to serve well. the stafford is by far the most consistent though.

that's the stafford lol

There are 2 aggressive defenses to 1.e4, the Sicilian and the French, and there are 2 more positional defenses to 1.e4, namely 1...e5 and the Caro-Kann.

All other defenses to 1.e4 are inferior to those four!

now that is an ignorant moose

french

Two of those are literally for white

Hmmm.....1300 calls out a 2100.

Let's see, based on your following post, you are calling out specifically that you claim the French is not aggressive.  This will prove your utter ignorance!

This is all theory here.  Now White has 24.Qd4 and 24.Qe4.  There is no sitting back here, and Black's Queen is even on the second rank.

Get better at chess before making bu**sh** calls at us stronger players!

Some lines are agressive, like the one you are showing, but most are not

eh?

No opening is for White.

Both sides determine the opening.  If you are going to play the Black side if the Accelerated Dragon or Hyper-Accelerated Dragon, you also must know how to play the Black side of the Maroczy Bind and the Black side of various Anti-Sicilians.

The opening is determined by both players.  There is no White opening or Black opening.  If White plays 1.e4 and Black plays 1...c6 and White plays 2.d4 and Black plays 2...d5 and White plays 3.e5, The opening is the Advance Caro-Kann.  White is playing the Advance Caro-Kann and Black is playing the Advance Caro-Kann.

Had White not played 1.e4 (or 1.d4 followed by 2.e4), you would not have an Advance Caro-Kann.

If Black had played 1...c5 instead of 1...c6, you would not have an Advance Caro-Kann.

The opening in each game (and each game has only 1 opening) is determined by both players, not White or Black individually.

Again you are wrong.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 (aggressively going after d4 and not giving White time to castle) 6.a3 Nh6 7.b4 cxd4 8.cxd4 Nf5 etc.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.Bxd7+ Nxd7 8.O-O Be7 9.dxc5 Nxc5 10.Nb3 Nce4

Again, playing very aggressively, Black will go after the White King as White's development is super-slow and Black has the long term weakness on d5 if this goes to an endgame.

The McCutchen is an aggressive defense.

The Steinitz leads to a blood bath with kings often castled on opposite wings (Black short, White long).

You lowly 1500s and below get the misconception that the French is a positional defense because of all the lowly imbeciles that play the exchange variation because the are too scared to play anything else.

And even the exchange is not a positional game.  There are some really nasty tactics.  But it usually leads to an early trade down, and you don't get a positional game.  You get an endgame!  Typically minor piece!

So again, to all you imbeciles that think the French is not an aggressive defense, let me tell you, as someone that has played the French for 27 years, YOU ARE WRONG!

And here is even more proof that an Exchange French can get nasty.  Yesterday, I had an opponent that played it.  I got into severe time trouble and with less than 2 seconds left (5 second delay per move), moved my queen off the 7th rank and let him mate me.

This is only the 2nd time I have lost to the exchange in 9 years (about 50 games where I was on the Black side of the Exchange French, and I doubt you'd say this one was dull.

I was unable to continue taking notation, but the Rook returned to f4.  I basically toggled the Queen between e7, c7, and a7.  Any Nd7 was answered by Rg8, and Nf6 by Rh8, to cover h7 and make Rg5 possible if ever h5 by White.

With under 2 seconds, I went from a7 to e3 with check (K on h3 at the time) with the Black Rook on h8, not g8, and after ...Qe1, it allowed mate with Nh5+ and Qf7+, and with no h8 square for the King, It is mate in 1.

NOTE - Not going to delete and re-enter the game.  The final result was 1-0, NOT 0-1

"This is only the 2nd time I have lost to the exchange in 9 years"

yea probably because its so drawish lmao, one game doesn't mean its always aggressive

Actually, I've won roughly 60 to 70 percent of them (30 to 35) and drawn around 15 to 20 to go with the 2 losses.

You can trash talk all you want, but that won't change the ~50% draw rate

queens gambit/pawn openings