Worst opening for white?

Which is the worst opening for white?

1. e3

1. a3 

1. h3 

I'd argue that 1. f3 is the worst. You don't develop a piece, you prevent your kingside knight from reaching it's best square, and you weaken your kingside. The three you listed are wasteful moves to be sure, but 1. f3 wastes a tempo with flare!

f3 or f4, because when I play these I usually lose

c3

I agree with Probaddie 1.f3 is the worst and h3 a close second since it weakens your kingside pawn structure.

As for Two_Dogs, I use 1.f4 and win regularly but there are a lot of traps to avoid.

Well the sodium opening is pretty bad tho..

http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/worst-first-move-for-white

I vote for 1. f3 (Gedult's Opening), for the reasons at the above linked thread.

It's rated next to last in popularity on 365 chess:

NAMES OF ALL THE FIRST OPENING MOVES
(in order of descending frequency, per 365chess)

1. e4 - King's Pawn Game [9], King's Pawn Opening [13]
1. d4 - Queen's Pawn Game [10]
1. Nf3 - Zukertort Opening, Reti Opening [13]
1. c4 - English Opening
1. g3 - Hungarian Opening, Benko's Opening [13], King's Fianchetto Opening [8]
1. f4 - Bird Opening, Bird's Opening [13]
1. b3 - Larsen's Opening [12], Nimzo-Larsen Attack, Nimzovich-Larsen Attack [13]
1. Nc3 - Van Geet Opening, Dunst Opening [3]
1. b4 - Polish Opening, Sokolsky Opening [5], The Orangutan [11]
1. e3 - Van't Kruijs Opening [14]
1. d3 - Mieses Opening [15]
1. a3 - Anderssen Opening
1. c3 - Saragossa Opening [16]
1. g4 - Grob Opening, Grob's Attack [6], Spike Opening [6], Kolibri's Opening [6]
1. h3 - Clemenz Opening [18]
1. Nh3 - Amar Opening [17], Paris Opening [17], Drunken Knight Opening [17], or Ammonia Opening [17]
1. h4 - Kadas Opening, Desprez Opening [1]
1. a4 - Ware Opening, Meadow Hay Opening [7]
1. f3 - Gedult's Opening, Barnes Opening [4]
1. Na3 - Sodium Attack, Durkin Opening [2]

REFERENCES

http://www.chess.com/explorer/
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desprez_Opening
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durkin_Opening
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunst_Opening
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnes_Opening (1-27-15)
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokolsky_Opening
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grob%27s_Attack (1-25-15)
[7] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ware_Opening
[8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benko%27s_Opening (1-25-15)
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Pawn_Game
[10] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Pawn_Game
[11] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Chess_Opening_Theory/1._b4 (1-25-15)
[12] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larsen%27s_Opening (1-25-15)
[13] http://www.365chess.com/opening.php (1-25-15)
[14] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_%27t_Kruijs_Opening (1-25-15)
[15] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieses_Opening (1-25-15)
[16] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saragossa_Opening (1-25-15)
[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amar_Opening (1-25-15)
[18] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clemenz_Opening (1-25-15)

e3 isn't bad if you end up transposing with d4 or f4 afterwards. The other two moves are just punts that offer Black to open the game and play a tempo down but with a minor rook-pawn move already made.

White can get away with a lame move in the opening. Black is down a tempo and can't fiddle around so much.

h4

These 3 moves are relatively good.

U can play virtually all reversed openings with 1. h3 as well as with 1. a3.

I'd argue that 1.e4 is the worst opening move for white, but that's just personal preference....

At least, it can be shown that 1. e4 is statistically suboptimal in master databases.

1.e3 is actually quite good. Some would call it quite poisonous.

1. f3 is probably the worst, especially if you play 1. f3 e5 2.g4

U mean 1. e3.

Pawn to f3 is definitely the worst. Here is why:

1. It prevents the dark-squared Knight, the light-squared Bishop, and the Queen to develop.

2. It does not control the center.

3. It endangers the King because it opens up the e1-h4 diagonal.

4. GothamChess said so

5. playing pawn g4 = GAME OVER

Even the worst move 1 for White renders the game =.

Black, being half a move down, has no time to waste and must be careful to not play nonsense.

According to most engines, and myself, it’s 1. g4, as it has all of the same problems as 1. f3 plus you’re likely to lose a pawn and screw up your structure even more.