e3 opening

As white my most common opening is e3, then knight to f3, then knight to c3, then d4, almost regardless of what my opponent does. It works 30-50 percent of the time.

Hmm. A piece down and your king stuck in the center after only 6 moves. That's not good. 

A lot of people like to play a system where they play more or less the same moves without regard for what the opponent does. However, your system leaves your knight open for immediate attack. You lost it quickly.

If you had opened with d4 and then followed with Nf3, Nc3 and e3, there would be much less chance that you would end up down a piece and with your king stuck in the center after only 6 moves.

Of course, any system like that has its drawbacks. You might consider taking some of the free Chess Mentor courses on how to open a chess game.

1. White to play and what?!

I'm sorry but that is a stupid thing to say. White is just learning the game.

It is not funny. It is not helpful.

But nowhere near as stupid as your post.

Mine may have been stupid but it was attempting to be helpful. I was trying to empathize with his desire to have an opening he could just repeat and provide an alternate move order that might work a little better. I also urged him to try some of the free courses.

Yours was just trying to confuse a new player. That goes beyond stupid and is just mean.

White has the luxury of being able to waste his first move with some numb and worthless gimmick, but it doesn't really do you any favors to turn a slight edge and initiative into a drifting middlegame.

it's ok notmtwain, I enjoyed your quaint attempt to be helpful by posting a game in which the OP probably knows what went wrong, not that the OP might even enjoy having the game posted without permission. After what you posted, it's kinda funny you didn't see the relevance of other opening blunders, but hey whatever floats your boat kid :)

Grace-Ventura, he was just like using an example of my opening being a disaster. I welcome advice lol.

Yeah I should probably start using e4 or something like that. Heck, I could use e4 and d3 instead of e3 and d4. I'd still be able to do some of the things I like doing with my knights.

I do have to say that e3 works great against noobs, though anyone with slightly more experience sees right through it.

First of all, is 30-50% good??? 1.e3 is not losing, but you moved first, why just give the 2nd player initiative? He can do anything. I see that and I automatically play either 1..c5 or, 1..Nf6 and play freely from there. Play almost anything else: 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.f4, 1.Nf3, 1.Nc3, 1.b3, 1.g3, 1.g4, 1.b4...almost anything else

Glad you got something out of his post, wesley! only got a facepalm out of it myself :)

honestly veganomnomnom, a guy can explore any opening he wants.

I've been using e3 for a long time honestly. I get some pretty fantastic situations out of it if black plays wrong. But I'm starting to see less and less of black playing wrong, so I'm experimenting with new stuff. I played Crab opening recently and it went very well. I made a separate topic about it.