What is your top 1 opening 🤔 ✨️ in chess

The London. Good choice.
The bad news - there's no London with black.

White: Ruy Lopez

Black: Petrov Defense

For me Right now, it may be the OLD Benoni Defense (black) and the Nimzo-Larsen (white). I feel as if the postions are interesting and have the opponent confused and questioning my actions.💀

London

I like the idea of the Nimzo-Larsen.
A youtube on it here by Kestony. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OnBHz3CG241) b3 is usually just called the Larsen. Or was.
But there's also the Bird-Larsen.
1) f4 is played by white more than 1) b3 is.
First - put the brakes on black's e-pawn.
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Regarding openings like the Old and Modern Benoni and the Reti - they allow the opponent to push his dpawn to its fifth rank.
But noting - White can play 1) Nf3 without playing a Reti. He doesn't have to let black get his dpawn into white's territory - or make it easy for the pawn to survive there.
Nf3 d5. white doesn't have to play c4 there.

London is such a bozo opening

Here’s mine, it’s kinda like Italian but it’s kinda different, Ima call it Italian: east night edition

I meant Italian: east knight edition

Pirc defense

A lot of players with black 'hate the London'.
Lol!
But even players like Magnus Carlsen are known to use it.
Many players with white 'disdain the London'.
The London appears to be 'the most hated Opening'.
Which is kind of a good reason to use it.
In theory the most 'hated opening' could be the Najdorf variation of the Sicilian.
'In theory' emphasized.
One could spend the rest of one's life in the labyrinthe of that one variation.
Similiar with the Breyer and Zaitsev and Chigorin lines of the Ruy Lopez.
Or the main lines of openings like the Queen's Gambit Declined.
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Instead - Slav Defense!
Instead of Ruy Lopez - blow that RL out of the water by making it impossible by playing the Caro Kann !! from austrian Marcus Kann. A hero!
Instead of open Sicilian with white when facing c5 - play Closed Sicilian with white!
And - instead of e4 on move 1 try out d4 or 1) Nf3! (which is white's most important opening move anyway - as is Nf6 for black.)
Unfortunately there's a misconception that if you play 1) Nf3 d5 that white is obliged to then play c4 ... He isnt!

Polish

Scotch gambit

Yes !!
Get white out of his 'most familiar' zone.
At that point white follows with c4 something like over 90% of the time (
my experience) because d4 players just don't want e4 and don't want a Caro Kann so they allow a Slav instead.

On all of those black can go right ahead with d5.
All ahead Full.
The 'funny' one there is f3.
d4 c6 f3 d5 e4. The 'fantasy' variation of the Caro-Kann.
Black can continue with dxe fxe e5.
The fantasy variation is rare. Why?
Maybe white figures he can do better with the main lines of the Caro Kann or if he wants to 'vary' try the Bayonet or the Caveman attack.

Polish

Caro-Kann for black is so good(trust)

Russian game

EK is very very stong.
An enormous rating next to his name.
EK - you could probably spot many many players a knight and still win.
I see d5 as very important for black but if its played on move 1 against d4 that's too familiar for white.
That's why Nf6 is twice as popular. One of the reasons.
But with c6 I see white as not getting exactly what he wants.
Yes white can go Bf4 instead of c4. Or Nf3.
The way I see it - c6 and d5 can be played against anything white does.
Unless white wants to go nuts and make his second move d5 ...

London System and Bird's Opening

Me too.
I don't know why d4 c6 is so uncommon.
Another one that's uncommon is d4 e6.
Again with d5 coming up.
But e6 ... ugh. Right away the c-bishop is blocked.
And how much does black use his longer Q-diagonal?
Not much. g5 and h4 both controlled by white's N at f3.

Both sides use their shorter Q-diagonal more.
Although white often plays Qe2.