Aggressive Openings against 1. e4?

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cogadhtintreach wrote:
lexiebkm wrote:
swarminglocusts wrote:

Alekhine but you gotta know your theory. I switched from Sicilian and love it.

Imo, it's not aggresive, tend to be defensive before trying to counter. I also find white's pawn at e5 is annoying. I have used it during the early days of playing online here, but never used since then.

Alekhine is terrible in blitz under 1800 cos of:

And so forth.. RA3 line legit wins so much..

So how come it's respected at GM level in classical?

The way things normally go is that people playing hyper aggressive openings often have a field day at the lower levels but then start to get "found out" as they go up higher and higher in levels.

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Elevator13th wrote:

Do you know this? e4/e5; kf3/kc6; bc4/kf6; kg5/KXE4(!). If kxe4/d5(!) fork k/b. If kxf7/qh4; g3/kxg3(!); fxg3;qe4+(!) fork rook.. take a look and tell me what you think about it

Take the pawn on f7+ and after the K moves, d3 doesn't drop a piece since Black can't play Nxg5, because Bxg5+ wins the Q

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Stafford Gambit

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ChessPawn921 wrote:

What aggressive openings and gambits are there against e4? D4 too, but e4 is more common, and thus more important.

The Sicilian Dragon or Pirc are good choices

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TTY_500 wrote:
ChessPawn921 wrote:

What aggressive openings and gambits are there against e4? D4 too, but e4 is more common, and thus more important.

The Sicilian Dragon or Pirc are good choices

Pirc is not aggresive

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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!

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

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MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

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FullCrowdedBadger wrote:
cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

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cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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

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MarioParty4 wrote:
cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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

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cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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.

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MarioParty4 wrote:
cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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

ok 746

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ThrillerFan wrote:
cogadhtintreach wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:

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

French is not aggresive

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.

yup, the fire is all gone by exchange variation happy.png

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Veronicastrum wrote:

caro kann french sicillian - all those are bad and i just suggest playing the standard e5

NO

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Veronicastrum wrote:

caro kann french sicillian - all those are bad and i just suggest playing the standard e5

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

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Veronicastrum wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:
Veronicastrum wrote:

caro kann french sicillian - all those are bad and i just suggest playing the standard e5

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

they are bad in general just play e5

NO THEY ARE NOT

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Veronicastrum wrote:
MarioParty4 wrote:
Veronicastrum wrote:

caro kann french sicillian - all those are bad and i just suggest playing the standard e5

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

they are bad in general just play e5

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.