Openings with 1.e4
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Hello everybody,
i know some good openings with 1.d4. I would like to know something about openings with 1.e4. Can you tell me, wich are the important and strongest openings against 1.e4 and how to play it?
Any old move will do, as Julius Breyer, an early proponent of of the hyper modern movement once said while annotating a game:
"After 1.e2-e4 White's game is in its last throes!"
French: 1...e6 with idea of 2...d5
Sicilian: 1...c5 to control d4.
Open Game: 1...e5.
Caro-Kann: 1...c6 planning 2...d5
Those are the main ones which are all considered sound. Common theme is simply to either attack the center on turn 1 or prepare to do so on turn 2.
Offbeat defenses
Modern/Pirc: 1...g6 or 1...d6 planning Kingside fianchetto
Scandinavian: 1...d5 planning either 2...Qxd5 or 2...Nf6 after 1.exd
Alekhine's: 1...Nf6 planning to bait White's pawns forward