Aggressive Openings against 1. e4?

Hi! If you like direct confrontation in open games then 1...e5 is the reply. You can choose for instance the Marshall Gambit when facing the Spanish Game or the 2 Knights Defense against the Italian Game.

Another good choice is to go for a semi-open game with a little restrained but dynamic position like in the Sicilian (mainly Najdorf, Dragon or Sveshnikov variations).

And if you like to give your opponent more freedom and centre control and don`t fear your somewhat cramped position in order to counterattack later, you can choose the Modern Defense. See my post on it:

https://www.chess.com/blog/maafernan/opening-repertoire-the-modern-defense

Good luck!

People tell me that French Defense is aggressive, but there are a lot of different lines to learn.

French is not aggresive

The French is an aggressive opening bruh

no it isnt

I'm less likely to believe you if you can't even spell the subject you are debating correctly.

English is not my first language, also spelling does not matter in a chess debate, rating does

WRONG! I don't know how else to put it but you are wrong!

The 2 most aggressive defenses to 1.e4 are the Sicilian and the French, and the two are actually fairly similar on nature.

Both have their positional lines (6.Be2 Najdorf, Alapin, Advance French, Exchange French) and both have their wild lines (6.Bg5 Najdorf, Dragon, Winawer Poisoned Pawn, etc).

Most who claim the French is not aggressive probably don't actually play the French, and when faced with it as White, likely have no idea what they are doing, and probably figuring they can get an easy draw by exchanging on move 3 before getting shallacked by Black.

ok 746

yup, the fire is all gone by exchange variation

NO

They are bad if you don't know how to play them, but otherwise they can be useful tool.

NO THEY ARE NOT

I would rather play French than e5. Too many opening traps.

Even if you don't get an opening trap, the positions can be very boring and sometimes you will not know what to do next.

I'm not going to play perfectly, and the subject will not be changed.

Caro-Kann can work, Silican can work, French can work, but not if you don't learn them.

Slang is only going to make your position in the debate worse.

I improved by learning several lines of French, and that boosted rating by 70. Not all, but enough to crush people at rating of mine.

Bad is an opinion, so if it is your opinion, then I can not change that. But saying that French not aggressive, is very wrong.

I was the one who said that lol, and ite a fact

You are 1500 which is bad, and many top GMs play Sicillian

Post the refutation to Sicillian here