queens gambit boi
Favorite opening
French Defense
King's Indian Defense
King's Indian Attack
Petroff (or Russian Defense)
Sokolsky (or Polish or Orangutan)
King's Gambit
French Defense
Sicilian open dragon panov attack
Qgd
Let me recommend you something as a Fide Master: if you are beginner start playing simple but clasically correct openings like: Spanish, Italian with White, and e5 with Black. But when you achieve a good level start playing many openings because it will enrich your general strategic understanding! And also try to undersrand the typical plans, ideas, look at the GM games with commentary, it will help you a lot!
wait you're an FM ... ?
Scotch
Watching grandmaster commentary seems to do nothing for my play, analyzing games helps me more. But I'm still pretty terrible.
The scotch is the only opening where I understand every move. I don't get why the ruy Lopez doesn't just lose a tempo when black pushes a pawn, and it also makes it hard to develop you other bishop just like the Italian. I know it's considered inferior but I am still drawn to the scotch
I was wondering what people think the best openings are. So I’m going to have people give me 5 or less choices, labeled from favorite to least favorite to so I can give a certain amount of points for what level you put it at. I’ll come back here regularly to edit what my data says. I’ll go first- King’s Indian defense, Pirc defense, Italian Game, King’s Indian Attack, Queen’s Indian defense. These listed are not the only options, I will add more as we go.
Queen’s Gambit- 10 points
King’s Indian defense- 9 points
French Defense- 9 points
King’s Indian Attack- 5 points
King’s Gambit- 5 points
Sicilian dragon- 5 points
Scotch Game- 5 points
Pirc defense- 4 points
Panov Attack- 4 points
Italian Game- 3 points
Petroff- 2 points
Polish/Orangutan- 1 point
Queen’s Indian defense- 1 point