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

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Avatar of 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.

Avatar of fieldsofforce

I prefer 1,c4 and 1.Nf3

Avatar of 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

Avatar of Slow_pawn

Always d4. 

Avatar of 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!

Avatar of yomama_69

E4 and bird

Avatar of ed1975

I play both

Avatar of 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.

Avatar of davidpnt

E4

Avatar of KnightOfTheLivinDead

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

Avatar of ActuallySleepy
Both
Avatar of 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.

Avatar of Iwillbeforgotten

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

Avatar of crisy

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

Avatar of cehirdie

d4 at the moment 

Avatar of freexeon

d4

Avatar of thegreat_patzer

wow... so many d4's!

 

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

still I strictly play d4

Avatar of 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

Avatar of akafett

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

Avatar of AussieMatey

e5 b4 e4 always.