Aggressive or Solid

Just a quick question. When I am playing games against players higher rated than me, do you think I should play aggressive lots of tactics openings, or should I play a solid hard to break defensive opening. 

I likee aggresive against my level players but for higher rated probbably solid

Against higher rated players I have nothing to lose! Go all ham on their king!

the weaker player is usually just as strong in tactics as the stronger player, so trying to out-tactic a weaker player is not the best strategy; but it is a great strategy against someone higher rated than you. 

Alex Dunne, author of How to Become a Candidate Master, writes: "Class A players are bad defenders, but are good attackers"

Just do what you do best and follow your intuitions.    

Except I’m talking about 2200+ titled players 

I have 4 daily games against titled players. Just for fun😁 just wondering how to play against them

aggressive- you've got nothing to lose

if you play defensively, the higher rated player will dismantle you with ease. You have to play aggressively, and give them troubles and make the position as confusing as possible.

Yes I think I can do well against them. Only because they probably won’t put much thought into the game, while I’ll consider each move for quite a while

But okay. I’ll play the games aggressively since that is what most people seem to say.

the lower rated player has a much better chance beating the higher-rated player by throwing the game into complications. If a class A player tries to out-positional play a master, he will die just as quickly (or even more quickly) than if he tries tactics- the master just has too much understanding of the game.

ehh that is right take hm out of theory and into a wacky position

thats how you can win

I play Bird's openings against much higher-rated players. I know the position, he doesn't. Against everyone else I play 1.Nc3

Learn motifs of chess, which opening where to attack/defense etc. and play strategically.

Chess strategies majorily depends on pawn structure. and learn those.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_structure

https://simplifychess.com/pawn-structures/complete-guide-chess-pawn-structures/index.html

Aggressive play just reduce draw rate by both parties .Therefore you increase your winning chance  but also increase your lossingchance as well. statistically.. But playing chess strategically will eventually bring you to be a higher rated player yourself.

Incorrect, If player A always beat player B,

Player A will have rating of infinity and player B will have zero rating. ( 700 rating difference means you still have around 2% chance of winning)

a fun attacking game is infinitely more intresting than a solid positional game where the lower rated player gets taken apart like a machine(1500s) by a mechanic (the 2200s)

https://www.3dkingdoms.com/chess/elo.htm

There is no zero chance as you are not playing aginst 32 men Tablebase or perfect chess player.

Theoretically, a fool/monkey who is playing randomly has mathematically 1: 10^52 chance of beating strongest chess engine Stockfish.

AMERICA

solidly is just hopeless. A lower rated's "solid" is not solid against a higher rated opponent lol