Openings you stopped using as you got higher in rating

I'm just curious if anyone knows if there's a trend for this.

Mate in 4. Fried Liver. Englund Gambit. Queen tricks.

There's probably gambits too, but I'm not too sure beyond that.

Another reason would be trying to integrate openings with sharp lines, but it's still a double edged sword because you might be in trouble if your opponent has more preparation than you do.

My point is to ask: Do you have openings you stopped using in order to play something more safe that helps win more consistently ?

Queen tricks? You mean "Danvers opening"? 

lol, I can play King's Indian Defense against most of everything, maybe everything

I used to play the King's Gambit... used to...

The Icelandic Gambit worked great up to USCF C class.  Once i got to the B section it was a miserable failure.

What's the border between C and B?

I mean, an example of this in my own case would be the Saragossa opening. I just never could get any advantage out of it.

Another one would be the Najdorf where even knowing 10 theorical moves in a row doesn't seems to be enough. That opening feels like you need to play 20-30+ theorical moves just to be allowed to play the game, it's ridiculous how deep people know that line. 

1 . E5 as black 

When Magnus reaches your rating, maybe he'll stop too.

Stopped using Vienna and King's Gambit, started playing Fried Liver from both sides, to improve positional awareness. Then played English Opening for about five years, with which I was very successful. Then gave that up and started playing 1. d4 2. c4, in order to get quicker wins, which worked. Then 1. Nf3 and then back to 1. d4. With black, stuck with Sicilian but changed to Modern Benoni. Recently switched back to 1. ... d5.

I stopped playing 1...e5 because the Ruy was so annoying.

I did the exact opposite.I got less solid as I played.I used to be a solid queens gambit player and now I play the Vienna gambit

Vienna Gambit is solid and positional though, isn't it? I mean, when black plays properly. Nice to see the upsurge of interest in the Vienna. It's been a forgotten opening.

When I FIRST started playing I played everything because it didnt matter. I didnt know the theory so I unknowingly played the bird, French, caro, etc...

From like 1000 to about 1800 I played the queens gambit as white, and modern defense vs everything as black.

1800 to 2200 I played the London System as white, and nimzovitch and KID as black. 

2200 to present I play the Jobava London as white and play 1. Nc6 vs anything as black. 

So honestly not too much change over the years. Been a d4 player since the beginning, and I still prefer black openings that are simple and universal. 

Also used to play the Caro-Kann when I heard it was Gotham's favorite opening. But its style just isn't what suits me as a player so I dropped it in favor of the French.

USCF Class A is 1800-1999

Class B is 1600-1799

Class C is 1400-1699 etc. going down in intervals of 200 to class E I think. 

Anything 2000+ is informally "expert" (even though not an "official" title) and then higher than this are just all the "official" titles which are usually norm based: titles like NM or GM.

Yes. Any gambits, or really tricky lines which aren't so solid, but a more experienced player could navigate. I used to use the Traxler Counterattack with black against the Italian Game for a while and it worked well up to 1500-ish rating. By 1600 rating, everyone seemed to be able to punish it to the point where I stopped using it because it would work so infrequently.

1. Nc3

It has some cool lines, such as

... but it's too straightforward to hope for an advantage. Plus, there's no really good line for White in reply to the simple 2. ... dxe4.

"My point is to ask: Do you have openings you stopped using in order to play something more safe that helps win more consistently ?"

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Yes, I stopped playing e4, now I play d4. (I don't remember the reason, but I don't regret it at all).

I stopped answering e4 with e5 - I now play e6 - French - certainly helps me win more consistently - I don't need to know how to answer: Ruy Lopez, Italian, Scotch Game, Ponziani, Four Knights, dozens of gambits.

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I finally chose an opening against d4 (it's hard to do, many garbage-options to choose from) - I play the King's Indian Defense.

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Against c4 I play e6 - I force the opponent to play d4 - QGD/Semi-Slav, otherwise I'd push my d-pawn myself and get a space-adv.

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Nf3 - I rarely see that. I play d4, and we'll see from there [it becomes a d4 opening, or a white King's Indian, usually].

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3.c3 - The Delayed Alapin, would be great here. [I'm saying it as a French player who has the misfortune to face it sometimes ]