What are your chess openings?

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Everyone post here for the discussion of your openings

White: Scotch Game, Bb5 Sicilians, French Tarrasch, Caro-Kann Fantasy

Black: Ruy Lopez Schliemann, Queen's Gambit Declined Lasker

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The_Lone_Deranger, I love the Scotch too!

I have "lazy set" of openings and a "serious set". The lazy one is 1.Nf3 2.g3, transposing either to some English variations or to King's Indian Attack, or to some forms of Reti. It does not mean that subsequent play is lazy - in fact, playing this kind of game requires a lot of energy if you don't want to drift into boring positions - just that I don't want to prepare. The "serious set" is based on 1.e4, but still with some options of opting out into sidelines (1.e4 e6 2. Qe2, 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 Bb5). As Black 1.e4 e5 with good old Ruy Lopez is "serious" and 1.e4 g6 is "lazy". Against 1.d4 I can play a lot of things.

I mostly play the violin as white and the viola as black (the viola's always a few bars behind anyway, so she should be black); eliminates the need for any type of opening preparation and my opponent seldom has a good defense for them - they always forget the earplugs, that is...

Perhaps I'll try to amplify on this opening repertoire in the future...

In a bank rank set up with >>>> NRBNQRKB, I like to use the Flying Tomato Attack (b4) 

White: e4

Black: ...whatever the most logical split second response appears appropriate at the moment.

My training repertoire is used to hide my tournament repertoire, so it's not an easy question to answer.

For my training repertoire, I like simple openings that leave the books quickly, and I prefer familiarty over objectivity.  I train with the Jaenisch Gambit (-0.7 or so) as Black to sharpen my middlegames, and to see where the "point of no return" is for computer analysis.

Of course, if you play the Scotch, you have to deal with the Latvian, Petroff, Center Gambit, etc.

Players over 2000 tend to have repertoires that can handle the surprises, usually as a result of seeing every "garbage" line in existence on the way up, passing 2000 once they can improvise and beat them anyway.

Nf3 as white generally going for a king's side fianchetto and d4 (a transposed Catalan?). As black I like the Pirc nowadays (I'm not afraid of the 150 Attack) against e4 and something like the Grunfeld against d4, e5, c4, etc. Have played back in the past the Sicilian Najdorf (too much theory from booked up opponents), the Dragon (had some memorable wins with it but also some real pastings - great fun though), the Marshall and the Breyer variation of the Closed Ruy Lopez, while as white I tended, once upon a time, to favour the Saemisch against the KID, the Sozin against the Najdorf, and assorted other favourites. Liked and still like openings that promise some asymmetry and dynamism. Stopped playing 1 .. e5 to 1. e4 because of the number of tedious Giuco Pianos, Kings Gambits, etc I found myself defending.

The London System, Scandinavian Defense, and the KID

Nimzo/Bogo, Caro Kann, and 1.c4 (OTB openings, I am trying to get better at 1.e4 online)

I believe the 3...Qd8 Scandinavian is quite practical, safe and sound.  It just needs better promotion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47dtFZ8CFo8

Yes, many bovine lummox gambits, the Scandinavian indubitably, are certainly more sound than some incogitable openings of Grossmejster Nimcowitsch.

In the past I played the Scandinavian,then switched to Petrov's defense

Petroff defense really suits me.I get very good results with it.

Against d4 I might play Kings Indian Defense or d5 Slav

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/what-are-your-chess-openings?quote_id=29682592&page=3#last_comment. Lol,the picture is hilarious