is anything solid against d4

I have for as long as I've played chess have been going through multiple defenses against 1.d4 same as 1.e4 but very few changes with good success from each change but when I play against 1.d4 I can't stand it  I usually struggle the entire game opening to end  even when I spend a whole 2 hours or longer trying to get use to a new opening and play practice games with it etc... and the same level of struggle happens and I dont mean even struggle I mean like I struggle to survive. Is there any defense or system or way of trasnposition or even a gambit someone can suggest to me ? I've tried the Slav, Semi-Slav, Budapest Gambit, Benko Gambit, KID, Horrwitz, Benoni, Modern/Robastch,Owens,Dutch, (not in this order) and I'm currently workin with the QID but I'm open to suggestions.

Practice your positional play if you struggle on Queenpawn opening. You can also try to play the exchange variation. It often leads to sharp semi-open game.

The Queen's is very strong and there is nothing that will give you an advantage, as always for black.  However, you can survive and sometimes win with one of the queen's gambit declined variations, which are playable against any move order by white. If you are relatively tactical, then the Tarasch and possibly the Henig-Scharra gambit line of it will give you an open game.  I am old and not as sharp as I once was, so I favor the Tartakover variation, although the Lasker is good also. Another idea is the king's Indian, which I see a lot of 1.e4 players using for their QP defense, although this is not as solid as the QGD and harder to learn. You can't expect to learn one of these lines quickly, you have to stick with it and get some appropriate reference materials with books or online.  The problem with the Q indian is that you have to pair it with the nimzo in case of 3.Nc3, which is a great big kettle of fish in my opinion. A lot of 1. d4 players are better than the average 1. e4 player, but if you choose something and stick with it it will pay off.

semi-tarrasch defense pretty much gives white nothing; however, you won't you win as black as much either.  I usually play semi-slav, but now im looking towards nimzo/bogo/queens indian..if you're playing queens you better know your stuff on nimzo and bogo.

I play 1.d4 myself and always have and I do find that a lot of 1.e4 player do play the KID but my results with that are better playing against it and I didnt like playing it myself. One of the reasons I'm looking into the QID is becasue of the Nimzo-Indian I keeo trying and dropping the Tarrasch so its so so with me and I dont know wwaht the Lasker or Tartakower variation is could you post a diagram ?

If you've tried so many different replies then you haven't given any of them a proper outing. Pick one and stick to it. I still play the Modern Benoni thirty-odd years later and have good results with it, despite it being "busted".

What is the Orthodox defense could you post a diagram ?

I don't know how to post diagrams, but if you just google the names of the different defenses, you will find a lot of references. Better yet, buy Modern Chess Openings.    If you play 1.d4 2. c4 you surely have encountered these defenses before.

Many good responses to the OP's post and I thank you all because, like the OP, I can't stand the d4 opening. I just about consider the game lost. This thread has given me some ideas - thanks.

I play 1...f5 and dictate my own share of the opening.  The Dutch has many themes, many styles, so you don't always have to play it the same way (Stonewall, Classical, Queenside Fianchetto, Leningrad, etc.), but you still get the control of e4, kingside play, a semi-closed position (with potential to open at your discretion!)...

Definitely a dynamic defense, that is perfectly acceptable, for anyone who wants to play for a win, and not be pushed around on the board.

Maybe the bad deal is not in the opening but in the middlegame after it? Try to study some openings deeply and focuse not on first moves but on strategical ideas after opening.

Thanks but I almost never post games on chess.com cause barely or most of the time no one comments on others games from what I have been observing so I always thought it to be a waste of time although I'll post a game occasionally do you know of a chess.com group thats active and share games.

thanks will do =)

go to http://www.chess.com/forum/ and select the "game analysis" forum. Maybe you haven't been posting them in the right spot. Anyway, I know that sometimes those posts go unanswered but I see many that create some feedback. You probably won't get hundreds of posts but you might get a few with good ideas.

Don't forget Spassky !  As a GM he never lost in this line until Fischer beat him in it. It was a big part of his black repertoire.....

most 1.d4 players are QG players

sometimes you see a lost London system  ( which gains some ground)

there are 3 items which to consider, 

- you know the white player and know his play

- you are not sure what to play, and want to rely on white's second and third move.

in this case  e6 is the most flexible  , and allows you to do many of the third possibilities straight away

- the black lion  ( zwarte leeuw)  defense is playable,  ( reversed english/reti, in which piece development is paramount rather than committing one self to a certain opening

dutch classic

dutch stonewall

dutch leningrad

benoni old/new

my favs : bogo-indian  ,  wolga  and wolga/benko combo

you may notice the absense of QGD and QDA  becasue these are most of the times the "rehearsed" openings of the white player,   chess is also playing the man, and playing their weak points.

agreed

I do agree that the Stonewall is by far the most solid of the Dutch setups, and can also be reached via 1...e6, if Black doesn't want to face "pesky" anti-Dutch lines.  But otherwise, 1...f5 always provides entertainment, and many 1. d4 players loathe to face it!

I currently play the Nimzo or a Slav, but I want to play the QGD. I'm just frightened of the exchange variation - that's what I play as white with amazing results. I don't want to encounter it on the black side. Is there a way to avoid it?

Hypo, play the QGD against 3. Nf3.  Otherwise, treat it as a Nimzo: