most hated chess openings

Oh ok thanks

In part -- re: Sicilian -- It's because you have to know responses to all the variations!  I know some "Open" lines, but I've found (at my level) almost nobody plays it.

So, my Sicilan "book" starts looking like this starting right at move *two*

1 e4 c5, then:

• 2 Nf3 -- Open -- play 2...d6
• 2 Nc3 -- Closed -- play 2...Nc6
• 2 c3 -- Alapin -- play 2...Nf6 or 2...d5
• 2 d4 -- Smith-Mora -- take the pawn (but do you take the second one?)
• 2 Bc4 -- Bowdler -- play 2...e6 (yes, at my level, some folks still do play the Bowdler)

(I don't know if those are the best responses -- I'm not knowledgeable enough to know -- but that's what I play)

So, yeah, not only does Sicilian have "so much theory", but it seems everybody I play with it is playing anything *but* the Open -- so then I have to know five different books starting at move 3.

I gave up playing Sicilian for a while, and am experimenting with French (which is good to learn some common pawn structures that come up in all kinds of openings)

Yeah I meant Bd7. i accidentally confused the two squares.

London

I despise the Smith-Morra or the Scandinavian, even if sometimes they are dubious at best they are just super annoying openings that force me to play their way, and I hate it.

I hear ya'.  I play 1d4, so i have a similar issue with Englund.

the 2 i hate are 1) the French exchange and 2) the London

People definitely hate on the French

when people play b6-g6, h6-a6, b5-g5, c5-f5 and stuff like that against me in blitz

For me personally nothing annoys me more than the hippo. 

g4 g

g4 the grob

as white

any Sicilian except for Brick or Staunton-Cochrane 

any French except for Diemer-Duhm or Exchange Monte-Carlo

any Caro-Kann except for Labahn or Labahn Double Gambit

any Pirc except for Czech, Pseudo-Austrian, or Austrian  

any Scandinavian except for 2.b4 

This maybe surprising, but I am ready for anything! I'll play any opening and I hate none of them

the Petrov defense isn't annoying for me, despite how many people are saying they hate it

any Sicilian defense is fine, I mean, it's a sharp opening, so what can you expect

I have not played all the openings, but all of them I have come against are not that annoying that I hate them

The one in fact i don't like the most is the king's gambit and the black side of that opening

I don't hate it, but it isn't that nice as black in the opening that I usually try to play against my opponents

London

The London System isn't that bad

First look at the most recent blogs in chess.com

Then there is a blog with a idea for black to defend against the London and equalize(at least equalize)

I have no problems with the London anyways

But this is all my point of view