Yeah, I played the Queen's Gambit accepted, he knows how to counter it perfectly unfortunately now and leave me at a disadvantage in the early game. It worked for a short time, but he looked up how to beat it and then just did that each time.
Sounds like you and your dad are in an arms race of sorts...The QGA is perfectly sound. Maybe you have to look deeper rather than broader. I assure you that if you have a disadvantage early on, the fault is yours and not the QGA :-)
I play the Queens Gambit as white and it is the line I least like facing. Besides 1...d5 is excellent against the London/Colle/Stonewall crowd IMO.
There is much to be said with sticking to a sound system. I have chopped and changed myself too much over the years. There comes a point I think when it is best to just concentrate on several openings.
I would never consider the QGA perfectly sound, instead I would consider it almost sound but dubious. Just looking at the board after 3. e4 makes me wonder whether or not Black has any prospects at all. White has full control of the center and will be up two tempi of development after Bxc4, which isn’t even a bad square for the knight, and will be ready to castle after Nf3. Meanwhile, Black has… a semi-open d-file… I guess, and the rest of this worse middlegame to figure out how to use it.
this is crazy talk. id say 3.e4 is the worst of the 3 options and black gets great play with 3.e5
I agree if White plays the inaccurate move 7. Bxe6?, but if White plays the accurate move 7. Bb5! then suddenly Black is in a lot of trouble.
7. Bxe6 has been played 273 times, with a respectable 58 points for White.
7. Bb5 Bc5 8. b4 Bb6 9. a4 has been played 150 times and scores an absolutely astounding 68 points!! That’s not the score of a sound defense.
I really don't understand what the OP wants. It is stated that the dad will prepare against anything new that comes up. Playing something new every time is the perfect counter to that. This way all the prep by the dad is useless.