Aggressive openings for black
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Hello. I wanted to ask if anyone knows rather aggressive openings for black, mainly against 1e4. I've tried the Caro Kann for a while but I don't always like the positions it puts me in so I'm not sure if it really fits my playing style. I also don't really want to play anything "typical" but rather take my opponents out of what they know. Thank you in advance.
Aggressive, you could go for Sicilian dragon, but that's not exactly untypical/a surprise.
Mar 11, 2023
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I don't think the Caro-Kann is considered to be an aggressive opening. However, I think the French is considered to be aggressive. The Scandinavian might catch some of your opponents off guard, since it immediately offers a trade.
Mar 11, 2023
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Chill_Vibes_Incoming wrote:
Scandinavian
[R]equires barely any study and can put people out of their comfort zone. Because barely anyone studys scandi. And you can have plans of castling queenside and starting an attack. Also there are videos on scandinavian by gothamchess, volclus and hanging pawns. Hanging pawns have some theory on it. While gotham covers the main ideas. It's a nice opening.
The Stafford gambit is a fun and aggressive line. Which comes after.
I don't really know much about it other then it has many different traps. Eric Rosen has many different videos on it. Keep in mind stockfish doesn't like this much. So play this mostly in blitz or bullet.
Petrov's defense:
I don't know if this is good or not but apparently it's aggresive opening.
These crappy internet opening gags must die. There is no shortage of bad advice floating around. You'll memorize a bunch of lines, have some limited success for a while and then results will peter out as people get wise to the openings all the while you have not actually improved any and keep making old mistakes in new openings.
Mar 11, 2023
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There's nothing wrong with the Scandinavian. It's a line.
There's nothing wrong with the Philidor or Black Lion either. But you have to know it. Easy to get wrecked if you don't.
Mar 12, 2023
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blueemu wrote:
There's nothing wrong with the Scandinavian. It's a line.
There's nothing wrong with the Philidor or Black Lion either. But you have to know it. Easy to get wrecked if you don't.
While this is true (and I can attest from personal experience), the above post that I cited started with offering the Scandinavian as a quick and easy route to discombobulating White and then ends with the Stafford Gambit. This seems opposite of what it being asked by the OP, whom, I think, is asking for the impossible. If you want an aggressive line against 1. e4, play the Sicilian. But then this hits the problem of falling into "typical" positions that are well worn and White is likely to be kind of ready for.
You could surprise White by playing Owen's Defense, which certainly would take White out of his comfort zone, but then you'd be dealing with the cramped positions and frequent lack of counterplay. If the OP doesn't like the positions he gets from the Caro-Kann, he certainly won't want to play the Owen's or the French or...about anything but c5 and e5. But that gets us back to the old familiars. There is a reason the main lines and preferred openings of aggressive players all look kind of the same. The only solution I can think of is to just learn to play chess and then play what works for your preferred playing style.