What do you think of the Colle System

Just a random question I decided to throw out there: what do you think of the colle system?

Best when black has played e6 blocking in the bishop. If black's bishop is on f5 or g4 then a colle is not so good.

Also a major point of the colle is the pawn break on e4... so it's not so good against setups where black hasn't played d5. So a KID type setup for example (d6 and g6) will make a colle look silly (you should play c4 and/or e4).

But if you're low rated and playing it against everything, it's definitely not bad at all. It's very solid, and you get your pieces developed and castled. It's a safe way to survive until move 10 as a new player.

Yeah, it does free up the light squared bishop, but blocks the dark squared bishop. White would probably be advised to play Bd2 after that to get a diagonal for his dark squared bishop, or maybe b3 to fianchetto it.

I never mentioned white's light squared bishop...

Yeah, the colle-zukertort (b3 Bb2) is a good way to develop the dark square bishop.

It’s ok. 

I don't like how it blocks in the bishop, but idk.

It is good. Edgar Colle scored some fine wins with it
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1036682

Colle is good, stable and white can get early attacking possibilities on the king side.

Against 1.d4 Nf6 make 2.Nf3. If then 2.g6 use Carlsen´s anti KID with 3.Nd2 so you do not get stuck in the large KID system.

A nice game I played today, not a colle, but the structure is essentially the same as is the plans

A colle with the bishop out is called a london

(Bg5 has a million different names and I don't know how to tell them apart... torre attack, veresov, barry attack, 150 attack, and on and on... I don't play 1.d4 so I never learned that stuff)

I don't know either it was supposed to be a trompowsky but it transposed into one of those triangle pawn openings

I was thinking about saying, "Why not get the bishop out before e6?" But then, like you mentioned, it would be a London System, and I didn't want to look dumb.

its fine but there are so many better options for white than the Colle, seems way too passive

Yeah, a trompowsky after 2.Bg5, but after 2...e6 it can transpose to tons of different things.

Colle has a lot of venom

Oh, and you beat ry, nice.

he was supposed to adopt me but we drew the first round and he lost the second so...

Wow, he didn't even put up a fight. He played pretty badly (in that game).

Maybe try again in a week or two... adopting someone that close to your rating is pretty hard, but that game was pretty pathetic. I think he can do better...