Title:"What’s the Most Underrated Opening in Chess?"* **Post Content:** We always hear about the Si
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6 days ago
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#2
Colle-Zukertort is pretty underrated on low level, but for high level they have literally considered everything so maybe the, hmm. Can’t find anything that GMs didn’t play. For example the Colle-Zuketort was played by Yusupov alot.
D-pawn Varaints ... are underated. I.e. The London, The Colle, The Torre, The Tromp and the Verserov.
95% of all openings are playable from 2500 elo to beginners.
The St. George Defence (1.e4 a6) which Tony Miles used to best the then-reigning world champion, Anatoly Karpov:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mDEECBksT0
https://www.chess.com/openings/Kings-Pawn-Opening-St-George-Defense
2 days ago
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#8
Queen's Pawn Opening: Mason Attack (for beginners though).
Reasons
1. The surprise of someone playing anything else than e4 at 500-950 range.
2. It builds a solid defense against attacks against the center.
3. After you finish development, you can queenside castle, which will also leave your beginner opponent shocked, and a safer king is always better.
4. It's a good opening to learn because the pushing the flank pawns usually results in more critical thinking, and new and different types of games each time instead of just the same old same old.
5. It's fun trying out new things, and if it doesn't suit you, know you know!
Richter-Veresov and Colle Zuckertort are pretty cool. I think the latter might be starting to catch on a little bit.
1 day ago
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#12
I'd say the Keres-Indian if one is live to the transpositional dances it can create as Black. It can become a Nimzo-Indian or a pseudo-Dutch or a pseudo-English-Defence or have independent life.
1.d3 with White, Philidor and Old Indian Defense with Black, is what I play.
Few players correctly knows the ins and outs of these openings, cos "nobody" play these, hence, nobody study these.
So, while, on a purely theoretical level, I can agree these openings I play (only and all the time) are not the best openings, to me, these are very good openings concerning the practical aspect of chess and chess competition.
Of course, every now and then, I'll stumble upon some opponent who seem to know their way through these openings. yet, it's no "game lost in advance" for it, and I consider it's a small price to pay for the good results I score in overall out of these openings.
Here is the worst recognized opening ever:
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nxe5???
Hey, who said this wasn't fun?
Title:"What’s the Most Underrated Opening in Chess?"*
**Post Content:**
We always hear about the Sicilian, the Ruy Lopez, the French, or the London… but what about the openings that don’t get much spotlight?
👉 Which opening do you think is *underrated* (at amateur or even pro level) and why?
* Maybe it’s surprisingly effective in blitz/bullet?
* Maybe it avoids heavy theory but still gives practical chances?
* Or maybe it’s just more fun and creative than its reputation suggests!
Examples: Scandinavian Defense, Trompowsky Attack, Bird’s Opening, etc.
Let’s discuss — and maybe discover some hidden gems together.