c4? d4? e4? f4?

which one?

Chick Norris

h4 for surprise value.  d4 if you want to slowly torture your opponent.  e4 if you want a fight to the death. c4 if you wanna bore your opponent to death (or transpose to something else).  f4 if you want to lose to higher rated players.

h4? why? i dont get the surprise value thing. And if you think im dumb just know that i just said f4 for maybes.

wait... slowly torture? i thought the queens gambit(what im playing right now) was an aggressive opening?

Given your current rating, I would pick either d4 or e4 as white and stick to it. If you're playing the Queen's Gambit at the moment (it's also what I play), stick to it. At your level, and at my level too, there's no point in studying the theory behind 1. d4, 1. e4, 1. c4, 1. Nf3, 1. b3, 1. g3, all the book responses, the main lines in the positions that could arise from those responses, etc. etc.

Like I said, you should just pick one opening as white. As black, learn a response to 1. e4 and 1. d4. Then just play. A lot. Practice tactics. Make sure you can do basic endgames with your eyes closed. You'll improve.

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Regarding the Queen's Gambit, it's not really an aggressive opening. Black can get a pretty solid position in various lines of the QGD, and you often get a closed position and a positional battle. The Slav Defense, for example, can be fairly solid for black.

A really "aggressive" opening would be something like the Fried Liver Attack:

These kinds of openings lead to a tactical mess. I'm not sure you want to play with these positions.

Having played them all I would advice 1.d4 if you want to survive opening stage in a standard way and play a slow game (for instance d4- Nf3- e3- Bd3 - 0-0 can be played against everything ( it's not perfect but I used that because you don't get mated quickly or end losing a piece) and play

I have played e4 but so many differents position arise that it is difficult to make standard moves. c4 I guess you also can play something like Nf3-g3-Bg2-00 to everything. f4 I usually lost in a couple of moves

thanks guys! but the thing is, what is the most fun opening?

guys... a lot of people play italian? i want to ask why its so good. and the comes the english.