which opening do u h8te when u r black


- London, not because it's good, it's simply lame
- Polish, I don't know it as well as I need to
- Alapin, again it's just lame, it's not good
- Exchange Slav if they avoid all the interesting deviations I can go into
I just don't want to be bored.

- London, not because it's good, it's simply lame
- Polish, I don't know it as well as I need to
- Alapin, again it's just lame, it's not good
- Exchange Slav if they avoid all the interesting deviations I can go into
I just don't want to be bored.
The London is a joke. I beat it at a very high rate!
Most annoying to face is the English Opening.

Woah, first off why in the exchange Ruy lopez was bxc6? played? Instead, black should have played dxc6!, where Nxe5? is met by Qd4!
Openings that are hard to play against:
- English (I play it myself as white, symmetrical variations are impossible to play as either side)
- Fianchetto variation of the KID (at least there's the Panno)
- Ritcher-Rauzer attack (I play classical Sicilian and am probably gonna get destroyed the first time I face this)
- Sozin attack (even worse than the rauzer 😭)
- KIA (I never know how to play against the other side of the King's Indian lol)

Playing black, there are no openings I hate. There are some that I consider trash and they annoy me because I'd rather play against something more legitimate.

Someone recently hit me with the Haxo Gambit a few days ago, and I’m completely traumatized. I still as of right now feel so humiliated. And I can’t even find any way to counter it, everything is talking about how good it is, but not how to decline, defend, or punish it as Black, if there’s even a way at all. I know this is just an online game, but that one game has scarred me so much that as of right now, I’m still seriously considering switching from e5 to Caro-Kann.


Thanks! The game isn’t over yet, but when I do, I’ll take your advice!