What is the worst opening in chess?

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Avatar of jjyao2000

I think it's the grav

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1. e4

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The opening played by the worst player

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I'll give a serious answer 1f3, the Barnes attack.  It is named after English master Thomas Wilson Barnes who used the Barnes defense: 1 e3 f6 to beat Paul Morphy repeatedly. AFAIK the only player with a winning record against Morphy..    He had solid lines prepped, Morphy wanted to punish the dumb opening and gets himself in trouble: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1266586

 

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My name Jeff
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1. g4 is the worst first move according to Stockfish.

Avatar of amogh_saagar

sodium attack, kandas opening, amar opening and ware opening

 

Avatar of cjxchess17

King's Gambit, bishop counter gambit accepted:


Scandinavian defense, Lindermann bongcloud attack:

Grob's attack, fools mate gambit:

 

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Parham Attack, Epaulette Variation.

 

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1. g4 e5 2. f3 Qh4++

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blueemu wrote:

Parham Attack, Epaulette Variation.

 

This. 

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Probably anything I would do would be considered really bad.

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The worst opening is one where you have no clue how to proceed in the middlegame.  While 1 a4 or 1 b4 are less likely to get you to a good middlegame position where you have a clear plan of attack, those moves do NOT lose the game for you and a player who knows what kinds of attacking positions can arise from them is better off than someone who blindly plays 1 e4, 2 Bc4 without realizing the point is to attack f7 or someone who plays the London Opening 1 d4 2 Nf3 3 Bf4 because he's heard Carlsen has played it so it must be good to play, right? - even though he has no clue of where the game should proceed from there.

The purpose of the opening is to reach a playable middlegame, one that has possibilities you can see.

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This dude who said 1. e4 he knows what he's talking about haha
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The awnser is the resignation gambit played by Magnus Carlsen against ding Liren in the semifinals of chessable 

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1.f3 is the worst first move. 

Avatar of PocketSnowman

The bongcloud

Avatar of DasBurner

London or the Italian with 4. d3

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Barnes attack 1f3 e4 2kf2

Terrible opening for anyone who isn’t Carlson

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Caro-Kann, Accelerated Panov, Pseudo-Scandinavia Variation. Believe it or not this is a real thing