What is the best chess opening

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For me I do the bishops opening and move the queen to the opposite side of the board to do quick checkmate attacks and I normally end up checkmating them or winning good material.

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There is no best opening, only what you like. The wayward queen attack only works at low levels.

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I have fooled people... mostly in bullet and people who are going crazy in blitz.

Avatar of CaroKannEnjoyer02

I mean, in bullet literally anything is fair game. Time is prob as important as playing actual good moves, so its completely valid in bullet.

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Honesly i just do random moves half the time and I have way to many misses so I normally do blitz and rapid

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VIENNA

Avatar of Anton5109

Try the Petroffs Defense or the English opening and occasionally the Albin Counter Gambit.

Avatar of austin13091

Petrovs is better on the white side to win a queen

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State honest opinions.

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CharlestonViennaGambit wrote:

VIENNA

How so?

Avatar of Yao_Wang

Personally the Pirk Defence

Avatar of Priestein014

Kings Gambit the best

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austin13091 wrote:

Petrovs is better on the white side to win a queen

Only works if they fall for the trap

Avatar of AniRulet14
Play the “Deutz Gambit” it has the highest win rate and its super fun
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You can buy chessable’s “Grandmaster Gambits” course to learn the Deutz gambit or just Youtube vids
Avatar of HrishaanIyer

i always lose when i do bishops opening by the way i learned that from a youtube channel called remote chess academy i think that the london system is the best opening at least for my level

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c4

Avatar of austin13091

I also do the Ruy Lopez which I actually do the the most because it leads to sometimes winning a pawn or a bunch of equal trades.

Avatar of tygxc

Ruy Lopez is most played at top level and for good reason.

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tygxc wrote:

Ruy Lopez is most played at top level and for good reason.

Irrelevant.

The OP is a beginner who wants to brag about his quick wins with the Scholar's Mate.

If you want to help, mentioning "opening principles" is the best thing to do. On the other hand, whether or not the Ruy Lopez is indeed the most played opening among super-GMs is completely irrelevant.