What is the best chess opening?

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What is everyone's favourite opening to play 

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Best and favourite are not the same. Many people favour subpar openings for fun or to evade theory.

There are several best openings. 1 e4 or 1 d4 are equally good.
1 e4 e5, 1 e4 c5, 1 d4 d5, 1 d4 Nf6 are equally good.

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The best opening even after hundreds of years is probably still 1. e4 e5.

However, anyone playing 1. e4 has to be prepared that your opponent will play a variety of other openings in reply, as of his own prefered choice. Like I do play the French against 1. e4, while others have other ideas.

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E5 D4 E5 D5

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My favourite opening to play against a lower rated opponent is bongcloud and against a higher rated opponent I play Vienna with white and sicillian with black.

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SrijanSaha014 wrote:

My favourite opening to play against a lower rated opponent is bongcloud and against a higher rated opponent I play Vienna with white and sicillian with black.

It is laughable that everyone talks about playing the Bongcloud, but yet I never see 1.e4 e6 2.Ke2 in any game that I ever play Black on here!

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give me te best opening chat

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I like the London system (I'm a beginner) it just makes my king feel secure in a fortress.

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Pirc Defence

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I use Nf3 when I am white and c5 when I am black

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edited moderator AndrewSmith 

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BlunderMaster-123 wrote:
 

Post 11 is total horsebleep!

A 1484 player calling legitimate openings garbage? I dare this person to come to my neck of the woods, in person, and I will take the Black side of the Dutch with a time control of Game in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment and play him $1000 per game, minimum 10 games!

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Scotch game , Italian game and Queen's Gambit playhand

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@12

" I will take the Black side of the Dutch with a time control of Game in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment and play him $1000 per game, minimum 10 games!"
++ That says nothing about the Dutch.
Nakamura might play the Bongcloud against you on your terms.

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in my Opinion I think it the King's indian and the Queen's gambit .

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The london system is a good opening in chess to

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E5

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there is only one opening that will give you an advantage due to most players not knowing the lines to play against it……that’s b4

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The Italian Game/Giuco Piano Or the Four Knights Game.

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Against low rated players all my pawns are wandering slowly forward.

If third (or sixth) is filled (or earlier), myself starts an attack ;-)