What's y'alls favorite opening?

Top 3 for White: 

1. Italian Game: Giuoco Pianissimo

2. Ruy Lopez: Exchange Variation

3. Reti Opening: Any Variation

For Black:

1. Sicilian Defense: Traditional Variation
2.  Queen's Pawn Opening: Accelerated London System

3. Queen's Gambit Declined

I'd love to hear yours!

Italian opening, fried liver variation!!!

for black i love Sicilian but for my style play more decline gambit

Black should never allow the Fried Liver and play 5...Na5 rather than the stupid 5...Nxd5??, allowing the Fried Liver.

White - Trompowsky, Neo-London, Staunton Gambit

Black - Petroff, French, Modern, Gurgenidze

Hmmm, this is tricky for me as I go through phases where I vary things.

Currently for White I really like the

1) Italian : Bird's Attack is currently my favorite line

2) Bird's Opening (just because it creates positions that can be so different from the usual )

3) King's Bishop Gambit (although I only dabble with this but it is a lot of fun. Scotch Gambit is probably my first love for gambit play, but somehow I always end up hanging back in that one and with the KBG I seem to get more violent. I lose brilliantly as a result, but the wins can be just as pretty, and the game is always interesting)

For Black it's easier

1) Petroff's Defense

2) Dutch Defense

I like the Spanish with white & French with black. Happy chess, 🙂♟️

Bishop's, and for black the Italian game: Rousseou Gambit (second is englund, third is wayward queen). Worst openings ever recorded: Scandinavian defense and Bongcloud

I love to play italian and sometimes Caro-Kann

This shows some next level theory

It shows why you are 1028 and not 2028!

White: Danish Gambit and it's family tree (Center Game, Scotch Game, Scotch Gambit, Goring Gambit)

Black vs 1.e4: Petrov's Defense , Latvian Gambit. accept all 1.e4 e5 gambits.

Black vs 1.d4 : QGA , Chigorin variation, Blackmar-Diemar, Albin CounterGambit

Things like London System---call in the Luftwaffe

Half-Opens: just gambit, Smith-Morra, etc.

White: Queen's gambit

Black: Caro-kann and Dutch defense

😭 I am 1500 but I don’t actually play the bongcloud

scilian najdorf and open scilian for black and ruy lopez for whites