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Sicillain defence and French opening?
kindaspongey

The October 2017 issue of Chess lists the top twenty openings compiled from a list of 4192 August games where both players were rated over 2400 Elo. One can not take position on this list too seriously because it is greatly influenced by how the openings are grouped. For example, all the Retis are grouped together, while English is separated into 1...c5, 1...e5, etc. Nevertheless, for what it is worth, some of the list entries are: 271 Retis, 232 King's Indians, 172 Caro-Kanns, 165 Nimzo-Indians, 126 Najdorf Sicilians, 126 Slavs, 118 declined Queen's Gambits, 100 Queen's Indians, 98 1...e5 Englishes, 94 1...c5 Englishes, 93 Kan Sicilians, 81 Tarrasch Frenches, 77 1...Nf6 Englishes, 73 Guioco Pianos, 67 1...e6 Englishes, and 66 Moderns

fuyuchi2008

good

poucin

Clearly QGD and Ruy Lopez or Giuoco Piano(nissimo).

Yigor

It depends on your view angle. grin.png

mocl125

Check out this article: http://chesswinning.com/10-best-chess-openings/

CheesyPuns

(thats not the KID yet, black has d5, transposing into a Grunfeld (a clearly better option IMO), for KID you need 0-0 e4 included)

_Number_6

Depends on the player.  If they never play 1.e4 or 1...e5 or 1...c5 then they don't need the Sicilian, Ruy Lopez, or the Italian Game.  But then they have to fill that hole with something.  

QGD no matter what.

kindaspongey
goldenwriter wrote:
goldenwriter wrote:
goldenwriter wrote:

hey hey hey

 

 

Krusty the Clown?

Sneakmasterflex

Teh bongcloud opening and the transvestite. A good third is Santa Claus opening.

coolchess_guy
Yigor wrote:

It depends on your view angle. 

just like ? can you explain little more ? 

Yigor
coolchess_guy wrote:
Yigor wrote:

It depends on your view angle. 

just like ? can you explain little more ? 

 

More concretely, it depends on your criteria of "importance". peshka.png For instance, one can say that the chess is just a game (with no real consequences) so the importance of any opening is equal to zero. grin.png

poucin

i chose QGD and Ruy Lopez (or Giuco Piano-nissimo) because these openings give so many concepts that if u can understand and master those, u will understand many about chess in general.

Irespectdat
the two most important openings are e4 and d4. (others are nf3, c4 and g3)
Irespectdat
ignore my post here plz
punchy_mcbam

The Najdorf and the Najdorf

coolchess_guy
punchy_mcbam wrote:

The Najdorf and the Najdorf

well i follow my instinct . i play white c4 mostly in all of my games. for e4 i play c5 and to reply d4 i play whatever comes into my mind and as black to reply c4 i play c6 . happy.png