Sharp openings

I just start playing the winawer poisoned pawn as black and I LOVE this sharp opening.

Here are two sharp openings  I know:

1.Najdorf Sicilian

2.Winawer poisoned pawn

If you know more sharp openings, please add to this list. Thank you! 

Good Chess Openings Books For Beginners and Beyond...

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

Thank you RussBell

The Schliemann variation of the Ruy Lopez:

e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bb5 f5!  if Nc3 then Nd4! to make it even sharper. 

Ok but White can get a solid edge against the Schliemann with best play. A very sharp but sound opening is the Sicilian Dragon.

Thanks BeatleFred and FizzyBand !

Also extremely sharp is the French McCutchen.  Sacrifices often occur on e6 or g6 for White and d4 or to a lesser extent e5 for Black.

The following are three McCutchen games.  The first two are extremely sharp, with the third not quite as sharp, but by no means dull either.

https://charlottechesscenter.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-french-connection-volume-12.html

https://charlottechesscenter.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-french-connection-volume-13.html

https://charlottechesscenter.blogspot.com/2018/09/the-french-connection-volume-14.html

And if your fear is White avoiding the McCutchen, the Steinitz can lead to just as sharp positions.  See "Round 3" from the following article:

https://charlottechesscenter.blogspot.com/2017/07/game-analysis-charlottesville-open.html

Thank you ThrillerFan for showing me a sharp french variation!

Did you actually go through the games?  What did you think of Black's King being on a6 by move 20 in the first one?

I think that's pretty dangerous. I don't like to put my black king out of the 8th rank unless I'm in the endgame or there is a very good reason to. 

@ThrillerFan I heard you play the French defense a lot. What variation do you play against the Tarrasch? I used to play ...Nf6 but after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nd7 5.Bd3 followed by c3 and Ne2. I think white has a very comfortable advantage...

I occasionally play the closed, but that is rare.

Typically, I play one of the following, based on mood:

A) Rubinstein - 3...dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 - If you go to that same blog from post 8 and go to the latest article, The French Connection Volume 36, you will see a rubinstein game that Black wins.

B) 3...c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 8.O-O Be7 9.dxc5 Nxc5 10.Nb3 Nce4.  If 4.Ngf3, then 4...Nf6 5.e5 Nfd7 (they are now forced into the universal system - some call it the korchnoi gambit) 6.c3 Nc6 7.Bd3 Be7 8.O-O g5.

C) The line I play the most often - 3...c5 4.exd5 (if 4.Ngf3, 4...Nc6 and now 5.exd5 is common) 4...exd5 5.Ngf3 Nc6 6.Bb5 Qe7+ and now 7.Qe2 Qxe2+ 8.Kxe2 a6 gets Black the Bishop Pair or else 7.Be2 Qc7 8.O-O Nf6 and now 9.Re1 or 9.dxc5 are both common.  New In Chess Yearbook Volume 119 is the source.  You might be able to get the games unannotated for free from their download area.

Also, if you go to https://charlottechesscenter.blogspot.com/ and you are on a desktop or laptop (if you are on a phone, there should be a link at the bottom to see the menu of archived articles) and on the right side, you see the years 2017 thru 2020.  Go to 2018, go to March, and you will see the first one.  Go thru by month to today and you will see all of them from 1 thru 36.  It is still an ongoing series.  A lot of deep analysis in those 36 articles.  Some of them are historical GM games.  Most are amateur games so you can see the typical mistakes made.  Black does not win every game, by the way.

Looking for a black defense that is playable with aggression.

In this case, there was a good reason to.  White tried to sacrifice and it did put my king on the run, but a6 was extremely safe with the aid of the Bishop and pawns.  Who ever said the Black Light-Squared Bishop was bad?

 Uhm, have you read other posts in this thread?  Winawer, McCutchen, etc?

Don't really want to play the French.

Well, good luck then.  I can tell you that as White, outside of the French, most lines that are aggressive for Black tend to be unplayable against the lines I mainly play:

Examples:

Sicilian with 2...d6 - 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3.  It is nothing better than equal, but if Black tries to force the issue, he will almost always lose - it leads to a very positional game, usually with some kind of Maroczy Bind structure.

1...e5 - I play the Italian (4.d3 against 3...Nf6, no Two Knights Shinanigans) and the Ponziani, neither of which allow aggressive stuff like the Schliemann unless you really want to play the Latvian Gambit (good luck with that!)

Caro-Kann - I don't allow Black's aggressive ideas like 3.e5 c5.  Nope!  Fantasy Variation!  3.f3!  For Black to succeed, he is usually defending the whole game!  Defend well, and you might actually win!

@Gramps4

I would highly recommend the Owen Defense.  It's sharp, you get both bishops mobile (which is a problem in the French Defense), and it can be effectively played against both 1. e4 and 1. d4.

Three warnings -

First, don't play b6 immediately, only AFTER playing e6 first.  With any luck, they'll think you're looking to play the French Defense (if 1. e4) or a Semi-slav (if 1. d4), and be perplexed after 2. ..b6.

Second, the Owen is VERY SHARP, you are fighting for the center right from the beginning.  The idea is to fix and destroy white's pawn at d4, and to force white to either open the long diagonal for your light square bishop, trade light square bishops (which is usually good for black), or impede his own kingside defense (usually with a move like f3 to support the otherwise-weak e4 pawn).

Third, there is no good book study on its various lines, so you'll have to work them out yourself.  What little book there is, namely Staunton's suggestion of an early c7-c5 is wrong.  The pawn thrust you are preparing for is d7-d5, and you need the c-pawn back to kick out a white knight which might want to occupy b5.

Takes a while to figure out all the lines, but it is solid against everyone I play, who are mostly in the 1800-2000 range rating-wise.