What openings did you start your chess career with?

I think it would be interesting to know what openings everyone played when they first started playing chess seriously. For me it was Kings gambit, french defence(winawer variation) and if memory serves correct kings indian.,,,or maybe it was queens gambit...I did start playing Kings Indian when I was still about 1200 rated just cant remember exactly when I first started playing it.

I started with e4 as white and e4 e5 as black. At ~800 I began (albeit with little knowledge) playing the Sicilian. I still play e4 to this day as well as the Sicilian

I started with d4 as White, QGD and French as Black.

I played the French like a baby becomes left or right handed.  Experimented with responses that fight for the center, got comfortable with e6 and d5, asked if it had a name, and after reading Winning Chess Tactics, Winning Chess Strategies, and How To Win in the Chess Endings, my first opening book was Winning With the French by Wolfgang Uhlmann and next was Play the Queens Gambit by Marovic.  Learned the exchange for White and orthodox lines for Black.

That was 1995/1996 school year (my junior year of undergrad).  Today? I still play the French, but against d4, while fully capable of playing the QGD, I play the KID with an occasional Dutch.

Most of the times, I start with e4 (white), and e6 (black). That's probably the wrong move, but I'm not very good at chess and I just just have fun trying new openings and such.

Anything and everything, except the Damiano Defence against the King's Gambit.

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I started with the e4 e5 opening, then I started using d4 for most games (with white) and the sicilian defence (for black) . now I still do the d4 opening with white, but with black I like playing kings or queens pawn gambits(or gambits declined, whichever)

I started with open games (e4 e5) and 80% of them were Four knights Game Spanish Version, sometimes Petrov's Defense and Ruy Lopez. Later I took on Sicilian and Nimzowitsch. 

a3, Ra2 as white. a6, ra7 as black. It is important to develop strong pieces such as rooks quickly, also by opening on the sides I feel very safe.

Danish is the best

1.b4 1b3 1nc3 1.f4 1g3

1nc6 1.b6 agaisnt almost anything white throws at me.

Pretty much everyone plays the guico pianissimo at some point... for me it was for 7 years straight lol

The I actually bothered to learn

Now I play birds opening for white, throw in an occasional scotch gambit and Evans gambit. I never play d4. 

For black I play Alekhine’s, Budapest Gambit, and occasional Dutch and King’s Indian.

e4 - Best by Test

lol nice rhyme 

Thnx

When I started: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. 0-0 0-0

3 years later: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 Nf6 6. Nbd2 0-0 7. Nf1 d6 8. Ng3 Bd7 9. 0-0

Or as Black: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. dxe5 Na5 

Or against the Sicilian: 1. e4 c5 2. c3

Or against d4: 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6

Or on rare occasions (I only play this as White): 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 fxe5 4. Qh5

I am only 904 USCF.

I started with the King's Pawn Opening, then progressed into the London system and Stonewall Opening, before settling on a mixed range.