What do YOU think is the strongest openning?
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well it just depends on how good you can play with that openning. there really isn't a good or bad openning in my opinion just as long as i can do well with it. though most of the time, i go for c4 because i win more often with it
Oct 7, 2007
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Nilesh wrote:
My favorite is d4 and my computer which analyzed this opening for 20 ply agreed with me.
wow! looks like you have solved chess then! i'm switching to d4 immediately!!
Though I play around with unusual openings quite often, I have to agree, that the generally strongest opening is 1. d4. Though, for flexibility and number of possibilities, a3 and e4 are best.
I am going to do a longer analasys to see which one works the best.
Real Men (and Women) Play 1. P-K4 (aka e4)
hmmm ... is there really a strongest opening ? but i think its differ from for each person. we have our own stlye and tactic... for myself i suck when playing d4. ill lose for sure .. but love the game .. ill try d4 if i have the gut for it ... he he he
I think I saw a statistical analysis somewhere that analyzed a database of grandmaster games and said that 1. d4 has the best winning percentage for white. At a practical level, though, it's all about what you're used to. In games below the master level, whoever knows the opening better will have an advantage, regardless of the theoretical strength of the opening.
There are some blatantly unsound openings that are so weak that they're a bad idea even at the beginner level, but they're the exception. Even unsound gambits that no master would ever touch are dangerous at the intermediate level when played by someone who is an expert in that opening.
--Fromper
Depends on what you are strong at. I suck eggs when playing D4 for Colle System and Queens Gambit or the Baroslov or something gambit. I love E4.
Oct 8, 2007
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"Even unsound gambits that no master would ever touch are dangerous at the intermediate level when played by someone who is an expert in that opening."
I feel the same way... the opening is rather irrelevant as long as it's played well. What generally decides a game is the skill of the players.
Oct 8, 2007
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Batgirl has a good point. Besides, I think the best opening is the one that wins. You can't say that one opening is best when you don't know what the opposing opening is. Now, if you said that I think 1.d4 is best IF Black responds with 1...xx I could buy it.
The best opening is the one you know best. Unless you're playing a complete beginner, then it's the terrorist attack.
Torre Attack hands down, it's my new love!
Nov 30, 2008
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The best or strongest opening to play is one that takes your opponent by surprise, costs them time to get through the opening, and then you are ahead on the clock (in OTB Chess). Batgirl is right though, and S. Polgar supports this concept: Study games from middlegame to ending, to prepare for tournaments.
Then you will need to be flexible enough to transition from one opening into a related one that you have studied, often enough, and - being experienced in that, will be more confident, as well as better prepared for the typical endings that arise from your middlegame.
"E4 is best by test" My Bobby Fischer quote of the day :P
According to the chess.com database, 1. Na3 also known as the Sodium Attack is the most powerful opening for white. It has a 60.9% win percentage for white!
If you don't believe me, check it yourself http://www.chess.com/explorer/
You know what that means.
Next time, challenge a grandmaster. Go up to Anand and say "I'll beat you.". Then, unleash the power of 1. Na3 and you have a 60.9% chance of winning! It's like magic only real! Statistics are never wrong :)
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I agree that the opening is pretty much irrelevant!
And CERTAINLY the first move does not give anybody an advantage that will make a difference. If you play better moves than the other person after making a sub-optimal first move, it won't make a bit of difference.
Anand would probably beat a GM rated slightly lower than him after playing any first move.
I like E4, but it seems like D4 is the most succesful.
didn't Fischer champion d4 at the end of his career?
I like this post because I think chess is one giant puzzle where theoretically one player has to always win. No one has yet solved the black v white question, but we've only been analyzing the game for like, I'm sure im wrong and will get corrected, a 1/2 millennium? There has to be a way to force a win for one side (and there should be considering that chess contains a finite set of positions) from the first move or Game Theory will have been a total waste (I want my money back Harvard!) and we'll find it eventually.
I personally go for d4. And if d4 wind up being the correct answer (in another millennium) then I bet dollars to doughnuts that c4 is the next move.
oysterboy33 wrote:
I agree that the opening is pretty much irrelevant!
And CERTAINLY the first move does not give anybody an advantage that will make a difference. If you play better moves than the other person after making a sub-optimal first move, it won't make a bit of difference.
Anand would probably beat a GM rated slightly lower than him after playing any first move.
The 1st move is only the 1st step in the opening.
I know this sort of a cliche, but which opening do you think as white lets you win the most games. My favorite is d4 and my computer which analyzed this opening for 20 ply agreed with me. So I want to ask you what do you think is the best opening and why?