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What is your top 1 opening 🤔 ✨️ in chess
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ThrillerFan wrote:
joshforthewin wrote:
Scotch Gambit - you can't argue with the 60% win rate : )
I can argue with it!
What stats are you going based off of? Games played by noobs on chess.com that are rated 1500?
In the true Scotch Gambit, not the two knights transposition, the true Scotch Gambit, which is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Bc4 Bc5, Black scores the following on more respectable online databases:
365chess.com - 46.7% (35.7% wins, 22% draws)
ChessTempo - Over 53%! (40.3% wins, 26% draws)
Your numbers are bogus! 60% for White? RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT! What's next? Fake games in the database?
As a player of the Scotch Gambit from 1000 all the way to 2000 elo, it is an extremely good opening, that allows traps without sacrificing the game completely if your opponent plays correctly. A few things i want to focus on in your response.
1. The "true Scotch Gambit" IS NF6, not BC5. Nf6 is the main line and is the most accurate way to play for black, with the most book moves involved.
2. While in something like master databases the win rates may not be all that pretty, i believe the person you replied to was talking about his own win % with the opening. For example, mine is a 56% win rate and a 35% lose rate on move 4. With certain lines on move 4 having up to an 88% win rate for myself. Surprisingly the "true Scotch Gambit" you were talking about with Bc5 is actually my most successful win % in terms of high played moves, with a 67% win rate out of 132 games. Compared to Nf6 where i have a 55% win rate in 152 games.
All up i think your summary is bogus, sure at the master level is it valid, god no. But none of us here are masters and that is pointless statistics to be looking at, for instance on Lichess' Database it has a 54% win rate against opponents who are 1600+.
That is the big thing here for me, i have certain trappy openings that against masters would have a 20% win rate, but against human beings who havnt devoted their whole life to chess, i have 80%+ win rates with, for example the Norwegian Gambit.
Scolar mate
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Français (that’s Fench in Fench)
I love to open with my "spilly special". c3 Qc2 It's not the best but it has great personality.
Sicilian Defense, Sveshinikov Variation
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