You can't be serious with this silly question dear.
Is there any opening in chess that always works????
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ruy lopez as white and Sicilian njdorf as black are quite easy and effective. study some and use them in game to see which one u like.
The Sicilian "ALWAYS" work against 3-5 years old but is not 100% guaranteed.
ECO is set to add the Billy Dee Gambit sometime early next year.
btw, that gambit is always accepted.
But best used in OTB games with long time settings.
isabela14 wrote:
well Kasparov played with 3-5 years old whole life then.
The Sicilian "ALWAYS" work against 3-5 years old but is not 100% guaranteed.
Jul 12, 2017
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I know it is a loaded question, I just wanted to get some good comments, thanks for that.....maybe just win half of the time would be good to set the bar lower....
1. e4 f6 2. d4 always works against people who play 2. g5!
MayCaesar wrote:
1. e4 f6 2. d4 always works against people who play 2. g5!
Yes, but at least we know the end result.
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universityofpawns wrote:
I know it is a loaded question, I just wanted to get some good comments, thanks for that.....maybe just win half of the time would be good to set the bar lower....
Not even that.
No opening is going to guarantee you any results against able competition. That comes only through your play. If you play an opening that isn't objectively bad and you understand what it is trying to do better than your opponent understands how to deal with it you will get solid though not perfect positions moving into the middle game. However, if your opponent understands the positions better than you or he understands his counter play better than you do, then you will have less success. As you can see, the players are the critical variables and there are still two phases of the game to be played in which each player's respective skills will come into play. There is no magic bullet.
They all work, without exception, some more for the side employing it, others for the defending side, depending on the skill of the employer and the defender.
At amateur level all opening work even the unsound ones. 
What do you mean by "works"?
Yes!
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My friend, UofP's, it depends on what you mean by "works."
My high school kids and I were very impressed by a NM the Maryland Chess Assn. provided to speak to our club who was asked what openings he liked best.
He replied, "The only thing I ever expect to get out of an opening is a playable middlegame."
In that sense, the opening that "works" for each of us is the opening whose resulting position lets us PLAN a middlegame that works for us.
The better the strategic understanding of the game we have, the better we can plan. For a so-so player with limited skills like me, it might mean an opening that allows castling on the opposite side since I have some skill at launching a pawn storm at a castled king. Or it might let me grab strong knight outposts on the 4th, 5th or 6th ranks that I know to look for if my opponent doesn't take care to block them.
Today, while waiting for my car's oil change, I began reading Jeremy Silman's The Amateur's Mind where he looks at a number of positions from master games, both quiet and dynamic, looks at what the masters did, then looks at how his 1000, 1200, 1600, etc. rated students evaluated the position and the plans and moves they made.
In the first such position, where White won, Silman's 1000-rated student quickly said he liked Black's position better because material was even and White's king was more exposed. Here was a case where the opening "worked" for White, but the 1000-rater didn't see it! I saw the first part of it for White - depriving Black of maneuvering room and a N-outpost, but I didn't see the right key square and the plan of attack.
So onward I go, playing around a little with openings - I played 1 d4 for the first time ever in all the decades I've played rated games and the 3 Bb5 Sicilian for the first time ever in current daily games - but mostly I'm looking to improve in tactics and strategy.
I keep coming out most openings in good shape but a lot of times I can smell the blood but can't see what I'm supposed to do!
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I heard the super modern ninja warrior accelerated nightmare 9...Na3 checkmate in 34 variation is a pretty strong opening.
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MickinMD wrote:
My friend, UofP's, it depends on what you mean by "works."
My high school kids and I were very impressed by a NM the Maryland Chess Assn. provided to speak to our club who was asked what openings he liked best.
He replied, "The only thing I ever expect to get out of an opening is a playable middlegame."
In that sense, the opening that "works" for each of us is the opening whose resulting position lets us PLAN a middlegame that works for us.
The better the strategic understanding of the game we have, the better we can plan. For a so-so player with limited skills like me, it might mean an opening that allows castling on the opposite side since I have some skill at launching a pawn storm at a castled king. Or it might let me grab strong knight outposts on the 4th, 5th or 6th ranks that I know to look for if my opponent doesn't take care to block them.
Today, while waiting for my car's oil change, I began reading Jeremy Silman's The Amateur's Mind where he looks at a number of positions from master games, both quiet and dynamic, looks at what the masters did, then looks at how his 1000, 1200, 1600, etc. rated students evaluated the position and the plans and moves they made.
In the first such position, where White won, Silman's 1000-rated student quickly said he liked Black's position better because material was even and White's king was more exposed. Here was a case where the opening "worked" for White, but the 1000-rater didn't see it!
So onward I go, playing around a little with openings - I played 1 d4 for the first time ever in all the decades I've played rated games and the 3 Bb5 Sicilian for the first time ever in current daily games - but mostly I'm looking to improve in tactics and strategy.
I keep coming out most openings in good shape but a lot of times I can smell the blood but can't see what I'm supposed to do!
yeah, I played only 1.e4 for 10 years as White because I like Fischer....sort of as a tribute....but just the last few months started playing 1. d4. I dumbed down the original question becuase was getting no response when wording it intelligently....trolling works!
Play KIng Indian Attack as white, 1.Nf3,2.g3,3. Bg2. as white.For black ,against e4, play Caro kann , against d4 and others play Nimzo indian defense or Queen Indian defense. These three opening are very simple to learn without many variations. It will work from amateur to even against computers.(I deeply analysed those opening with Stockfish and can gaurantee to get a draw as black). KIA is not so good for white but it is very easy to learn and play
I have not found it.