survey: are you an 1.e4 person or a 1.d4 person

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gingerninja2003

i'm just wondering what first move people prefer. one isn't better than other i'm just wondering what you prefer. 

if you play the English, reti, van Geet, bird, Hungarian and Nimzowitch-Larson attack. please let me know also. 

personally i'm a d4 person.

fieldsofforce

I prefer 1,c4 and 1.Nf3

GodsPawn2016

If i know my opponent 1.d4

If i dont know my opponent 1.d4

If its a 1 day tournament 1.d4

If its a 2 day tournament 1.d4

If its a 3 day tournament 1.d4

If its a tournament in another state 1.d4

If its a game at the club 1.d4

if its for fun 1.d4

Slow_pawn

Always d4. 

MickinMD

1 e4. because it tends to lead to the open game I'm comfortable with.

If my positional understanding gets better, I may go for 1 d4 or even some of the "modern" stuff!

yomama_69

E4 and bird

ed1975

I play both

Zeroed_BLANK

Depends. If I know nothing against my opponent, then E4 (if white)

If I know something about my opponent (rematches, watching them play, etc.) then whatever knowledge I have may or may not lead me to start otherwise.

 

EDIT: Then again I'm a noob and suck at chess...so don't take my answer too seriously.

davidpnt

E4

KnightOfTheLivinDead

I go both ways (just like country and western).

ActuallySleepy
Both
jiju__k

e4, and I played g4 for a while, it works for lower rated players, and for those  who know to deal with it, it cracks.  There should be some graphics, (e4 how many percentage and d4 how many percentage, others how many %).  I hope you do that after you get sufficient replies.

Iwillbeforgotten

e4 It's almost always gonna be scotch or philidor.

crisy

e4 - for the profound reason that I know even less about d4 positions than I do about e4 ones.

cehirdie

d4 at the moment 

freexeon

d4

thegreat_patzer

wow... so many d4's!

 

and yet when I play on cc most people play e4.

still I strictly play d4

gingerninja2003
GodsPawn2016 wrote:

If i know my opponent 1.d4

If i dont know my opponent 1.d4

If its a 1 day tournament 1.d4

If its a 2 day tournament 1.d4

If its a 3 day tournament 1.d4

If its a tournament in another state 1.d4

If its a game at the club 1.d4

if its for fun 1.d4

you could've summed that up in two characters.

d4

akafett

For the past three years, 1.d4 always. Prior to three years ago, 1.e4.

AussieMatey

e5 b4 e4 always.