What are your chess openings?

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MDL4

I tried to learn Alekhine defense but didn't like it as soon as I watched the video and the moves

MDL4

The knight gets frequently attacked in Alekhine defense

AIM-AceMove

Currently openings are my weakness and just recently i started to study them and to pick my serious repertoar and style that can bring me to 2000 and beyond.So far i studied mostly tactics, endings and common themes in middlegames, positional stuff, strategy, diff types of exchanges... While i experiment with wide range of openings, so i can have better feel what exacly i like and i don't and to have better knowledge on various positions than my opponents who all their chess life know few openings lines deep and that it. I don't like that, i prefer to know good a lot of openings so i can never be surprised. Under 2000 level there are a lot of gabits, unsound openings, so a player must be prepared and study most of them if he want to punish them or to transit to well known line and go beyond.

Many would say you can't study middlegame if you don't know your openings, thats true but i survived to far with common opening principles and ideas and a bunch of traps and unsound moves.  Tactics was most importhant, but without good opening that put you little better as white you can't go far or equal with black.

I would say if you are 1000-1500 rated player forget openings and focus on tactics and endgames.

I played few games with a player that knew 15+ moves of Fred liver as black and one more opening as white he won that game. He played very quick and strong moves even on side line,  but after i tried different openings vs him he played like a beginner and quickly lost games. What's the point learning couple of openings if you can get crushed in all others.

 

All beginners and intermidiate players want to win quick out of opening so they memorize lines and traps and gambits but that wont do them any good at higher levels.

ThrillerFan

White:  1.Nf3, 1.d4, 1.e4, 1.b4

Black:  Caro-Kann, Taimanov Sicilian, occasional 1...e5, Dutch (Stonewall and Classical), King's Indian, Old Indian, occasional 1...d5

 

Sometimes experimenting other openings, like the Nimzo.  Play almost everything.  It's more what I refuse to play than what I actually play.  The following have been black-listed by me:

White:  King's Gambit, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

Black:  Alekhine, Benko, Grunfeld, Dragon

IronSteintz
ThrillerFan wrote:

White:  1.Nf3, 1.d4, 1.e4, 1.b4

Black:  Caro-Kann, Taimanov Sicilian, occasional 1...e5, Dutch (Stonewall and Classical), King's Indian, Old Indian, occasional 1...d5

 

Sometimes experimenting other openings, like the Nimzo.  Play almost everything.  It's more what I refuse to play than what I actually play.  The following have been black-listed by me:

White:  King's Gambit, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

Black:  Alekhine, Benko, Grunfeld, Dragon

You were anti-London System. Have you changed your view on that?

rbul_97

White: Queen's Gambit, Catalan and Nf3.

Black: Tarrasch Defence, Nimzo-Indian, French and e5.

ThrillerFan
IronSteintz wrote:
ThrillerFan wrote:

White:  1.Nf3, 1.d4, 1.e4, 1.b4

Black:  Caro-Kann, Taimanov Sicilian, occasional 1...e5, Dutch (Stonewall and Classical), King's Indian, Old Indian, occasional 1...d5

 

Sometimes experimenting other openings, like the Nimzo.  Play almost everything.  It's more what I refuse to play than what I actually play.  The following have been black-listed by me:

White:  King's Gambit, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit

Black:  Alekhine, Benko, Grunfeld, Dragon

You were anti-London System. Have you changed your view on that?

No, I'm still anti-London system.  Still find it to be a complete system for total wimps.

The ones that I "black-listed" are ones that I either view as refuted or close enough to it that I have no interest in playing it (King's Gambit, Blackmar-Diemer Gambit, Alekhine, Benko) or those that no matter how many times I try to play it, I still just don't get it, and doesn't match the way my brain functions, and hence simply avoid (Grunfeld, Dragon).

 

I still to this day have never played the White side of the London System.  I've played other items that are close to it, but not the official London System.  Those others include the Colle Zukertort, Colle Koltanowski, Torre Attack, Trompowski Attack, Veresov Attack, and the Dangerfield Attack, but NEVER the London System!

 

Oh, and I should add, I have about as much respect of both the London System and the players that play the London System as I do for Donald Trump, which is less than 0!

Fireline11

It's a bit too harsh too say you don't respect certain people because they opt to play certain openings. If you don't respect other people's opinions, or even other people who have other opinions... well what can I say... You will never get a pleasant conversation going with someone about something you disagree with and you will hate most people. ;(
Taulmaril
Interesting thriller, as black you play similar stuff to me. I've just started playing the taimanov,I've played the stonewall dutch and old indian in the past. But with the stonewall you really need to know the ideas otherwise you wind up with white sitting on the hole on e5 forever. I got busted up a few times against an expert and just dropped it.
Spectator94

White

e4 - Bg5 Najdorf, Be3 Taimanov, Bg5 Classical, g4 Scheveningen, King's Gambit, 3 Nc3 French, 4 h4 Caro-Kann, 4 Bg5 Pirc
d4 - Catalan, 4 Qc2 Slav, fianchetto against all Dutch etc.

Black

Sicilian Dragon, Modern Defence, King's Indian Defence 

pestebalcanica

Stonewall

Bangla_Chess

e4

 

GM_Marsonal

french is the best for black >>it is better than sicillian actually
for white it is d4 

Spectator94
GM_Marsonal wrote:

french is the best for black >>it is better than sicillian actually

Care to explain ?

DoctorStrange

KID,NID, Sicilian dragon, sveshnikov, najdorf, and many Sicilians. Old bennoi.

DoctorStrange

Spectator94 wrote:

GM_Marsonal wrote:

french is the best for black >>it is better than sicillian actually

Care to explain ?

Sicilian is better than French. see it yourself. Do you agree, spectator? I know you agree :) LOL. we both are Sicilian players ! ^^

Spectator94

To me personally Sicilian is better than French ye because I 'feel' the positions better

SuirenBoid

white... d4,c4 Including Bf4 QGD, g4 vs QGD, Nf3 and e3 vs QGA, Nf3 vs Chigorin, e3 vs Slav, Anti-Meran, Nge2 vs KID, Exchange Grunfeld with Bg5 or h4, e3 Queens Indian, Qc2 Benko, Nge2 Benoni to mention a few, also Colle Zukertort, Geller Modern, Sneaky Grunfeld with e3, e3 - b4 vs Grunfeld, Nimzo Larsen. 

Black... Nimzowitsch Defence with d5, Nimzowitsch Defence Kevitz, Philidor/Lion, Dark Knight Pirc, Black Knights Tango, Nc6 vs d4, Old Indian, Reversed Grand Prix Attack vs English, Nc6 vs c4, Four Knights Reverse Sicilian. Dragondorf, Chigorin Defence, Cozio Ruy Lopez, 2 Knights Defence, 3 Knights with g6, 3 Knights with g6 vs Scotch, Qf6 vs Scotch... thats a bit of a summery 

MagikKnight21

i dont know if its good or not but i use it

also blacks moves were completly random just to let u know

MDL4

Against London system I play anti London.1.d4..d5..2.Nf3..Nf6..3.Bf4..c5.Thats anti London system for black.A very good opening against London system