Post your top 5 favorite openings here

1. scotch game

2. king's pawn

3. four knights spanish

4. italian game

5. smith-morra gambit

1. Caro kann!!! I love playing every variation of this thing, especially against the mainline. Tell me, how is white going to break through this impenetrable fortress? I can't get over the fact I used to play 1. ... e5 instead of this beauty!

2. Slav! This one is a very recent add to my repertoire, and I gotta say, I really like the concepts! It even has an anti london with 1. d4 c6 2. Bf4 Qb6. Love it!

3. Italian game. Used to be my number 1, but I am starting to get bored of it. Center attack is just eh, and the fried liver is ONLY fun because I get an ABSURD amount of wins with it. The moment fried liver stops working at those higher levels (or in other words, when I start getting hit with 5. ... Na5 at around ~1000) Im likely ditching it.

4. London system. My first opening ever. Just so amazing from beginner to master level, and I probably will return to it once fried liver stops working.

5. French defense. This is what I used to play instead of 1. ... e5 until I picked up the caro. If I could play anything against e4 aside from caro, it would be this, or maybe scandi. Would be higher, but london is so good and fried liver is SO powerful at my level.

1. Petroff's Defense (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6)

2. Italian Game, specifically the main line (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3)

3. London System (1.d4 d5 2.Bf4, and then I generally follow it with the move order 3.e3, 4.c3, 5.Nbd2 and 6.Nf3)

4. Symmetrical English (1.c4 c5)

5. Bogo-Indian Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+)

I have also finally gotten around to studying the main line of the Ruy Lopez. I am now studying it with a Chessable course, and I liked the positions white gets. I haven't tested it out yet, but I could see this being a contender for the top five when I finally do start playing it.

how to rip the carokann a new one, you ask? like THIS:

played that SAME mate 3x already and rip carokanns a new one with THESE stats

just doing WHAT COMES NATURAL having stumbled on it by accident when I mixed not so easy maroczy fantasy with french alapin diemer. I LOVE me BDGs!!! not used to Bc4 tactics... are ya?

I find it so funny how our playstyles are literally complete opposites have fun on your future games destroying us all lol (also, yes. Caro players are sometimes aware of that tactic as it is quite common in the fantasy variation with 3. ... dxe4 4. fxe4 e5, sometimes called the open fantasy. Your opponents apparently weren't, though!)

Yes... I'm a ruthless romantic KLINGON and you're a bean counting logical VULCAN...

Which is ironic because I am a borderline LOGICIAN mastermind personality type who can't understand why 98% of y'all filter every single thought through crazy irrational emotional filters.

1. Caro-Kann

1. Caro-Kann 2. Halloween Gambit 3. Ruy Lopez 4. Four Knights Game: Scotch Variation 5. King's Financhetto

5. petrov defense

4. göring gambit

3. caro-kann

2. scotch gambit

1. vienna game

I dont see many petrov players! Noice.

1. Ruy Lopez
2. French Defense
3. Nimzo-Indian (Queen Indian)
4. Sicilian Defense
5.Queen Gambit declined/accepted (or Catalan)

1. Evans Gambit

2. Queen's gambit

3. Ponziani

4. Fantasy Sicilian

5. Berlin Defense

1. Sicilian Najdorf.
2. Sicilian Najdorf.
3. Sicilian Najdorf.
4. Sicilian Najdorf.
5. Sicilian Najdorf.

1. Catalan 2.Ruy Lopez 3. Najdorf 4. Classical sicilian 5.nimzo Indian

missed the chance to name 5 lines in the najdorf instead of the opening itself

Four knights game

This aint game review and they still got 5 misses dam

1.hillbilly caro-kann2.alekhine-chatard attack3.evans gambit4.traxler counterattack(as black)5.grunfeld defence