Opinions

Openings, my favorite subject. It is a curious matter.

I like Scotch, because it gives me some good chance to take the initiative right away. It is the opening that I play most of all, yet I have a low success rate (more or less 50%). Clearly, I don’t understand it well, but I like it. The same goes for the Two Knights Defense as black. The funny thing is that I get the best results when my opponent leads me to openings that I don't know at all.

The one I love the most is the Sicilian, but I've never played in my life, as black. You say : how can you love it if you've never played it ? Answer. I "know" about openings from the many illustrative games in the beginner manuals I've read. Sicilian Defense is the one that impressed me the most, it gave me an impression of unpredictability and complexity that others have not given me. Benoni follows closely ( I appreciated it thanks to a couple of games by Tal' and a couple by the young Kasparov ): I'm also careful not to play this one. The only criterion I can use is that of the “aesthetic impression” I get from them, so to speak ; from this point of view, I generally like all Indian Defenses a lot.

Back down to earth and sticking to what I know by playing : I like Berlin Defense ( tough ) ; I don't like Philidor Defense (a bit monotonous) ; I don't like the London System (because I almost always lose against it ).

I like also like the Italian!

bro its a boosted stockfish line, obv you cant put the lichess engine on depth 128 so you have to boost it by playing a few moves of its analysis multiple times so thats what i did. you know how a +1 advantage can balloon to +9.8 in the endgame, the same thing applies here.

I know it's not common among people but the vienna is my favorite opening of all time ( I've never saw anyone play the main line against me + super tricky for the opponent who was taken out of the comfort zone + can be super aggressive with the gambit pr play a solid system)

One of my favorite openings to play as white is the Shirov Attack in the Advance Caro. An extremely aggressive and fun way to play against the Caro-Kann.

i think g4 is also for the bayonet attack

at the end of the best line its -1.1

have you even looked at the line i sent you thats the exact position from my line

your line is not optimal and bad

mines better than yours you are simply wrong

the line is litteraly depth 33 for every move since when was it inoptimal

mine is depth 44 for the best line and depth 37 for the evaluation at the end of the line

ok continue with the analysis

no

cool ok get the wrong trophy now because this is how internet arguments work

The Shirov attack delays g4 by playing Nc3 first

so like you could play the bayonet attack then once they play a move you can play nc3 and turn it to the shriov