What is your least favorite opening?
While there are certain openings I refuse to play from one specific side, whether that be as White (King's Gambit, London) or as Black (Benko, Alekhine), there are two openings I totally despise playing from either side! They are:
1) Grunfeld Defense
2) Sicilian Dragon*
* Normal Dragon, not Accelerated Dragon. I'll gladly go against the Accelerated Dragon and have transposed to it through the English Opening. Absolutely no problems with the Maroczy Bind! Of course, I only deal with the White side of this. I tend to avoid the Sicilian as Black.
London, when someone plays 1.d4 2.Bf4 against me I hate him inmediately, I want him and his family to suffer and get a painful death, as I consider him a bad person
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The Scandinavian defence (when I'm playing as white). Every time someone plays it against me I celebrate, especially in blitz and bullet games. Its not a bad opening in long time control chess but every move requires some degree of calculation and it usually leads to at the very least a significant time advantage (if not a material advantage) for white.
London, when someone plays 1.d4 2.Bf4 against me I hate him inmediately, I want him and his family to suffer and get a painful death, as I consider him a bad person
Oh boy...
Wayward Queen Attack (1. e4 e5 2. Qh5) (As Black)
London, when someone plays 1.d4 2.Bf4 against me I hate him inmediately, I want him and his family to suffer and get a painful death, as I consider him a bad person
Oh boy...
Ok, maybe I exagerated a bit, just a bit.
Wayward Queen Attack (1. e4 e5 2. Qh5) (As Black)
1...f5 is weak against 1.f4. There are literally 4 moves that 1...f5 is no good against (Source: Play the Dutch against 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 - Don't recall author)
Those 4 moves are:
1.e4 and 1.g4 - Obvious Reasons
1.Nc3 - 2.e4 gives White a significant advantage
1.f4 - the Gambit line here is much stronger than the From's Gambit is for Black. 2.e4! fxe4 3.d3 - Advantage White
The author of that book argues that the Dutch is playable against any of the other 16 moves by White. Not sure I agree with that, in particular 1.b3 and 1.b4.