Chess gives me mood swings! 
Switching from 1.e4 to 1.d4
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Jul 15, 2023
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#4
About 2 weeks ago, I made a YouTube video to help players find what openings to play for both white and black. My target audience was mostly beginners (which years of experience and over 2200 chess.com rating usually apply to), but the video still might be worth a watch at least for hearing my thought process and for the link to the chess personality quiz I mention. I found this quiz to be entertaining and accurate and it suggests which openings you'd likely be better with based on your playstyle and chess personality:
I would also look up things from GM Lars Schandorff and IM Christof Sielecki (hopefully I've spelled both named correctly, or at least close enough) as both of these titled players are known for their opening knowledge and repertoire knowledge. This might help you find what you are looking for 
Jul 16, 2023
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#5
IMO I find there's no perfect opening and all we have to do is play against a strong bot (in time 15m+10s per moves and do take back for tactical or direct mistakes) and we'll understand that even openings that might be considered weak can be just strong for us because the strong bot won't lose against "a noob like us".
So to play 1) e4 or 1) d4 is something personal that doesn't have much relevance because on 1) e4 or on 1) d4 we are going to encounter things that will cause us problems as soon as we play against players who are more or less of our playing strength.
The questions that have more interests is why such an opening creates a psychological impact and how to increase our playing strength because against us a strong bot can play anything and that won't prevent it from winning or not losing (ex. 1. e4 c5 this position you think you've already lost because you took bad defeats, strong bot can play anything like 2. Na3 and players of your level will never beat it).
In my youth I was an 1.e4 and it had got me some impressive results, but things started to go rocky and I've been switching to 1.d4, 1c4, 1.Nf3 and others and struggled to find the right one. I have been play 1.d4 for 2+ years and it has got me good results. After switching between e4 and d4, the covid lockdown came and mostly played 1.d4. After the pandemic, I wanted to play 1.e4 again because it was part of my childhood, but since then, I've been getting a load of losses and I haven't been enjoying my chess. I felt that i wasn't being barbaric and aggressive in my recent games. I tried to be aggressive with 1.e4 but had no success with it. I guess it doesn't hurt to switch to 1.d4 after playing 1.e4 for so long.