What Openings do you Hate to Play Against?

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The Queen's Gambit? The Sicillian Defence? What openings do you hate to fight against? I hate it when my oponent uses the King's Gambit Decline!

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I hate it when my opponent plays 1. Na3, Nc3, Nf3, Nh3, a3, b3, c3, d3, e3, f3, g3, h3, a4, b4, c4, d4, e4, f4, g4, or h4

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None, I absoloutely love everything I play currently, I think my results have improved as well, since im not longer all grumpy about my opponent playing a certain variation.

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The French.

I play it as Black & hate seeing it as White.

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DrSpudnik wrote:

The French.

I play it as Black & hate seeing it as White.

Completely Agree!!!!

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I don't really like the Trompowsky and I dislike having to play the Queen's Gambit Declined. I feel out of touch in such situations. I'm okay playing against the French and Caro-Kann so far, but those other two I need to improve against.

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To avoid a lot of crap from d4 players, I start 1...e6 and then 2...Nf6, even though I intend to play a QGD, I see no Veresov, Trompovsky etc.

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Don't say which openings you don't like or you are not good at!! It can be used against you lol.. Some people keep archive of such information!! Sealed

Just kiddin post whatever you like!! :P  

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d4 openings

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I do not like seeing Caro-Kann and French because i suck at closed positions. For d4 i always go King's Indian to throw off the Queen's Gambit players.

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I don't mind any opening against me in Standard Chess, but in Blitz I dislike the Danish.  However, I watched a video on refuting it and it worked well for me up to a point.

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I hate to play against King's gambit and Scandianavian defense.

Even though I am 1.e4 regular, I'll go 1.c4 if I know my opponent will go scandianavian.

Also similar to the argument above, I play Kings Gambit as white so I hate playing the black side of it.

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I am really generally comfortable in *most* openings - I get good success with:

White:

  1. French - Tarrasch
  2. Sicilian - Alapin
  3. Pirc - Austrian Attack
  4. Modern - Same
  5. Caro-Kann - Classical/Modern
  6. Ruy Lopez
  7. English Opening

Black:

  1. Petrov's Defense
  2. King's Indian Defense (or Torre, or whatever)
  3. King's Gambit, Falkbeer Counter-gambit

So in general, I'm good :)

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i dislike playing against d4 openings mostly because i like open positions and d4 tends to lead to closed games most of the time.

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I hate the Petrov (or Russian), it looks like it's doomed to be dull from the start.

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Gil-Gandel wrote:

I hate the Petrov (or Russian), it looks like it's doomed to be dull from the start.

Dull?  This is your fault you can choose to play it sharp, either the cochrane gambit or after black playse nxe4 you can play nc3.

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I hate playing against tactical gambits that I'm unfamiliar with or haven't looked at for a long time. I guess this is probably true for everybody though.

Some gambits are pretty easy to play against even without preparation. I think the Budapest Gambit is in this category, as sensible moves seem to do fine for White. But there are other gambits (more likely the ones where White plays the gambit) where sensible moves often have unobvious refutations. I think the Morra Gambit is in this category. These sorts of gambits are very unpleasant to play against if you haven't seen them for a very long time and have forgotten some of the details, or if you haven't ever done some basic study of the main ideas and tactics in that opening.

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I hate middlegames more than openings, except when endings are more despicable.  I hate symmetrical play, but I really don't like it when my opponent plays for very unbalanced positions.  I also hate broccoli.

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MonsterTactics wrote:
Gil-Gandel wrote:

I hate the Petrov (or Russian), it looks like it's doomed to be dull from the start.

Dull?  This is your fault you can choose to play it sharp, either the cochrane gambit or after black playse nxe4 you can play nc3.

Well... yes, Nc3 is a fairly good sideline. But NEVER play the Cochrane, it's horrible :)

Another way to get a fighting game:



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AJI12043 wrote:
DrSpudnik wrote:

The French.

I play it as Black & hate seeing it as White.

Completely Agree!!!!

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