The French is my most pet peeve opening. I can counter the Sicilian or e5 very well. I usually play a little known Gambit against the French. Before, I usually got terrible positions. For some reason, people are playing the French 50% of the time against me. I am 1750 uscf player if you were wondering. I once upsetted 1900+ with Grand Prix Attack of Sicilian. That is what proper preparation brings, at least for me.
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And what annoys me most overall is if my lower rated opponent plays for a draw from the opening and I am black. I once got held to a forced draw vs 1598 because my opponent countered my Sicilian with a drawing line and forced the trade of several pieces. As for me, I always play for the most realistic result the current position can bring.
Awesome60 wrote:
I ABSOLUTELY hate Ruy Lopez and Modern Defense with all my heart
I love the Scotch Gambit. I could send some analysis. That will avoid the Ruy. Just take control of the center if your opponent plays the Modern. E4, D4 , nf3 and so on should give plus over equal.
I get annoyed everytime I face the Ruy and Slav
To avoid the Ruy as black, play Sicilian or something.
It's fine though. I only play e5 when I get the itch to since I usually play Najdorf or Scandi.
Jul 7, 2022
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KeSetoKaiba wrote:
This is a bit annoying as Black if you are playing for a win. The Four Knights opening is drawish anyway, and many lines here in this variation either forces a draw via repetition, or are really boring with drawing being a high likelihood. 4....Bc5 is GM Kaufman's suggestion, but I usually play Bd6 here; play is okay after perhaps O-O, Re8, and Bf8 with slower positional chess.
After common looking moves like 4...Nd4 5.Nxd4 exd4 6.e5 dxc3 7.exf6 Qxf6 8.dxc3 We then have a draw looking setup. The pawn structure on the Kingside is 3 on 3 and Queenside we have 4 on 4. Double Rook endgames have a high draw reputation, and opposite colored Bishop endings do too - here, either of these are possible.
play sicilian ;D
Jul 7, 2022
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Annoying = dont know what to do is really nice way to put it ..so for me it would be sideline openings like grob , modern etc
Jul 8, 2022
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Gump_forest wrote:
Annoying = dont know what to do is really nice way to put it...
Funny, but no. By "annoying" I don't mean continuing is clear (there are actually many continuations which are playable), I a simply saying that it is bothersome to keep pressing for a win when this opening has such a high draw margin (due to symmetry).
I don't have to worry about 1. e4 e5 anymore since I switched out of 1...e5 as my current repertoire 
I find it annoying when my opponent plays random moves that I know are bad but can’t seem to punish
As Black, I am a French and Semi-Slav player and hate the Exchange Variations with the exception of the Queen's Gambit Declined Exchange Variation. The London and those e3 systems are up there too.
As White, I play the Queen's Gambit and I don't like those 1...c5 trying to play some sort of off-beat Benoni. I'm fine with a regular Benoni just find this one annoying. The only other thing is the QGD Slav instead of a Botvinnik or a Moscow. I want to play something more exciting than the "safe" variations.
Any stonewalls are annoying due to lacking counterplay and me not really knowing how to break them down
Correspondence55 wrote:
for me the sicilian as white
What about the Sicilian is annoying? I'm a d4 player but I do transpose into the Sicilian from my French.
anything closed or hypermodern. if it's positional... it can kiss my furry exit!
QUOTE: Any stonewalls are annoying due to lacking counterplay and me not really knowing how to break them down
these days, opponents are REALLY driving me nuts in the stonewall with new jack lines i never used to see. if you hate the stonewall, just play an early e5 to rip it open and ruin black's plans, queenside fianchetto and rip the center open, try to trade your queen's bishop for the valuable king's bishop that can get through the blockade and/or advance your knight to e5 asap as an outpost... the same thing the stonewaller wants to do with his knight. you can close his position up targeting the e5 square and his bishop or sometimes going for the backwards e6 pawn. those are the things that drive me so nuts i want to STOP laying the stonewall.
here's one that i couldn't figure out this morning
1. c4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. cxd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 e6 5. Bf4 f5 6. Bxb8 Rxb8 7. Qa4+ Bd7 8. Qxa7 Bc6 9. Ne5 Ra8 10. Nxc6 bxc6 11. Qb7 c5 12. dxc5 Bxc5 13. Qc6+ Qd7 14. Qxa8+ Ke7 15. Qa6 and i had enough and resigned
here's another one that threw me quick... my opponent figured a new way to get at my bishop
1. d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Nf3 f5 4. Bd3 Nf6 5. b3 Bd6 6. a4 c6 7. Ba3 and the bishop's toast. i ended up losing
the smith morra ain't what it used to be. when i started out, i had something like a 90% win rate with it, but coming back rusty, i'm actually performing around 30:60 in it now. i was never able to beat the sicilian before in the advance, grand prix and wing gambits.
it has winning stats under 2000 though. i just need to book back up and stop trying to Qe2 everything.
as to the french, these days i'm 57:42 playing the monte carlo exchange WITHOUT THEORY! i was never able to beat the french either. i chose the monte carlo because it suits my "rip it open" style as well as my having to play it from the other side via the icelandic gambit, but the french (NOT sicilian!) wing gambit performs even better along with the alapin diemer, but if i'm doing this good with the monte carlo, might as well stick with it.
This is when King Gambit players don’t want to try anything else. Some may also add the Italian variation of the French when they play an early Bc4 but I don’t mind it and most of the time the bishop gets blocked in and/or trapped
I ABSOLUTELY hate Ruy Lopez and Modern Defense with all my heart