Is any one else sick of the sicilian in Vote Chess

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OMGdidIrealyjustsact

Would it be a good idea to start Vote games with forced openings like in tournaments? I'm in both Knights V Bishops (as Bishops) and New versus Experienced (Very New) and both start with Sicilian. I like the Sicilian but If most of the games start this way it gets boring.

P.s I'd love to try a vote chess game in Bird's opening on either side

DrawMaster

Lamentably - to my way of thinking - the Sicilian is extremely popular, but - yes - I'd get tired of it if it was the only opening in Vote Chess. I suppose a group could start a vote chess game with another group agreeing to a particular opening.

Feldmm1

Yes, I am tired of it.

HeavyArtillery

no

OpeningGambit
HeavyArtillery wrote:

no


 2 letters?  That doesn't mean very much! 

I am tired of the Sicilian in Vote Games, certainly.  Why don't we have games with weird and wacky openings like the Bird, as OMGdidIrealyjustsact suggested?  Or the Grob?  Or just something different?

OGSmile

pickworth

whos this sicilian an why is every one voting for him ????

Spiffe

I've played about half a dozen Vote Chess games.  Only two of them were Sicilians, and one of them followed the 2.b3 line, so it wasn't exactly stale.  And in fact, that game where my team played the mainline Sveshnikov was the only one my team lost! Smile

So I could see how that could get tiresome, but I haven't had that problem.

EDIT: Although now that I go look at the Vote Chess front page, 4 of the 5 games are Sicilians in the opening, heh.  Perhaps your idea of themed-opening Vote Chess would be a good one... "Bird's Opening, pick your side!"  That would actually be a lot of fun.

OMGdidIrealyjustsact
pickworth wrote:

whos this sicilian an why is every one voting for him ????


 The Sicilian is a Chess Opening (1.e4 c5). Because these moves are very popular (I'm as guilty as the rest of us when it comes to this opening) I'm worried that in the team Chess matches (Under "Vote Chess" on this site because team members vote which move they want to play) the amount of players who want to play it often outnumbers those who don't (which is different to OTB chess as You can opt out by playing different moves