Who agrees that the Scholars Mate is the second worst opening? (after Damiano Defense)
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I think Scholars mate is the second dumbest opening. I mean its great for ELO 100-200 but after that people have better pattern recognition and will know how to prevent it and strike back.
15 days ago
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Worst opening gotta be fool's mate. If we're talking about 2+ move openings (eg. italian game, ruy lopez) then scholar's mate is definitely some of the worst openings because if punished correctly you lose a lot of tempos and you get behind in development. But if we're considering all openings then there are a lot of worse ones like the grob opening, barnes opening and the düras gambit.