How do you react to the King's Pawn Opening?

One of the most the most common openings is the king's pawn, and there are many ways to react to the opening. How do you react to it? Please explain.

C5 intuitively and happy happy happy. Winning with it makes it encouraging.

I could never understand e5, e6 and c6 so why bother with it now?

I like playing against the Italian and ruy Lopez but if he doesn't play 2.nf3 I really have no idea about any theory

1...e5 because I have a good win rate with it, and because both sides have explosive lines that are pretty fun to play. In a serious OTB game, however, I would probably opt for the Petroff (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6) or Philidor Defense (1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6).

1...c5, 1...e6, and many others are also good, but I don’t have much experience with them as Black.

simple 1) e4-e5 2) f4-Bc5

And the position :

is not bad or boring.

On the Youtube video Goldmoney Asian Rapid avec Magnus Carlsen et Alireza Firouzja | Qualifs Jour 1  (in French I know but you can probably find the same game in English) we can see Firouzja vs Magnus Carlsen who played this position (for them it starts from a Vienna game, for another it will be from Bishop's openning but in the end it will fall on the same position)

 

I had misunderstood the question (I thought it was for the king's gambit) for King pawn I play Scandinavian.

1..c5 and 2..e6 as of right now. I think i'll probably go to the 1..c5 and 2..d6 lines soon.

Sicilian. I have a better win rate with it.

Badly.  This has always been a problem.  There is no response that I am comfortable with.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/50888927715 this actually doesn't help much cause we suck

For an aggressive defense against 1.e4, with the goal of a Kingside attack, I highly recommend the following....
Caro-Kann Defense - Korchnoi Variation (sometimes referred to as the Tartakower Variation).

The variation begins -  1.e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3.Nc3 (or Nd2) dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6 exf6...
I refer you to the following instructive videos on the variation...
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=korchnoi+variation+caro+kann

The best book by far on the Caro-Kann which extensively and instructively treats the Korchnoi Variation is...
Win with the Caro-Kann by Sverre Johnsen & Torbjorn Ringdal Hansen

Chess Openings Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/openings-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

I play the French but I also Transpose into the Taimanov Sicilian

I have a French study where it will go over the basics. Doesn't cover the Classical Variation with Nc3 but at your level, hardly anyone plays it.

I have a study on 1.e4 e5 . It's based off a very good book although according to pfren, the Ponziani, Vienna, and the Halloween Gambit are not completely accurate so use the engine for those and/or check my comments with Frentzas. I've stopped at the Four Knights to focus more on my repertoire but if you have the book, you are more than welcome to clone the study and work on it yourself if you choose to

Caro cann or scandinavian are my main responses as black. They are solid and much easier to play than sicilian.

I like having the option to play e6 too much to be able to play 1.e4 e5

Also, creating imbalances leads to more exciting games in my opinion.

1.e4 c5 is a great way of doing that. 

 

Out of the 10 reasonable responses to 1.e4 I have used all of them as my main weapon at some point, apart from the Sicilian, which I have only ever played through mouseslipping.

Not very well today but I’m going to keep on trying lol to get the alrighty “W”:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/51211269035

https://www.chess.com/game/live/51208804815

https://www.chess.com/game/live/51207055507

https://www.chess.com/game/live/51204681983

4 games in row today were I got black pieces!

0 wins, 3 loses and 1 draw….still going 

Sempre com peão de rei tbm

it depends. i'm not a fan of advance scandinavian or the more positional modern variations, but am liking the icelandic now that everyone's transposing the scandinavian gambit into the pavnov. if i've already been facing a bunch of closed d4s and hypermoderns, i get really frustrated having to face that crap in the scandinavian marshall.

 

i WISH i had a 2 knights/marshall repertoire. i'm really wanting nothing but open tactical games and dreading positional misery

 

c6, c5, or e6. I just don’t have the courage to play e5 yet, I feel like I need to learn a lot more about e5 openings before I feel comfortable. But I also recognize that I’m stunting my opening understanding by not playing e5.

I feel ok with that though. I’d been incorporating c5 over the past couple of months, and I’m at a point where I would feel comfortable playing it OTB.

And I use those responses because those have generally been considered best, and are generally seen in high levels of play. So I figure, if I eventually want to play at a good level, I might as well get experience in the openings I likely will use at good levels.

I tried a bit of Nf6, d6, and d5 in the past, but I never quite got a handle of Nf6 and d6, I could never really understand how to play the positions I was getting out of them, and d5 started to lead me to just slower versions of openings I was getting out of c6.

Play this: