If you could only use Four Chess Openings

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brettregan1

Hyptheotically, if you were put on a desert Island with other castaways AND the only way to get off the island and back home was to win a chess tournament AND you were only allowed to play any one of only Four Chess Openings when playing white -- and Four Chess Openings when playing black. ( for a total of eight ) Which chess openings would you choose to put in your repoirtoire to bring to this tournament?

brettregan1

Tenna of New York USA wrote," What happens if you choose the Sicilian dragon and KITenna D, but you opponent plays 1g4 Do you get shot ---WELL--there is madness behind my madness --- I am stuck at a 1300 - 1400 chess level -- I don't want to spend fifty years memorizing all the openings and reading and mem---- orizing all the chess books ever written -- if I were to devote that much time to study I would instead choose to study something which could make me rich  or some other subject which would be more practical and useful. -- so I am basically conducting an informal survey and was going to memorize some openings depending on the answers submitted and go with that for my repoirtoire.

PrawnEatsPrawn

Four openings for White and four openings for Black would require me to know four more openings than I presently do! Embarassed

brettregan1

-- well you know more than I know , right now the only one I know is the Ruy lopez Spanish Variation