Best Chess Opening
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Ruy Lopez.
It is most played at top level and for good reason.
I'd also say 1. Ruy Lopez. It's structurally the most sound and incredibly complex.
I mean, take Caruana-Carlsen from yesterday - nuts: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2457630
On 2. I'm tending to say the Giuoco Pianissimo for similar reasons.
3. Queen's Gambit.
4. King's Indian Defense.
5. Modern Defense.
take a screen shot of how you use this opening🙃
@5
Agree with 1-2-3, but not with 4-5, which are risky.
See Figure 30 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2111.09259.pdf
What is the best chess opening, and why?