Why would anyone play anything besides 1E4.

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Avatar of Crotonninja1

seriously

Avatar of CockroachGirly

What kind of question is this. Maybe because 1.e4 isn't the only way to begin a game?

Avatar of Verwarr

Preference.

Avatar of icrushpunks
D4 is better.
Avatar of DoYouLikeCurry

Real answer? E4 tends to lead to more tactical games, D4 to more positional (huge generalisation, but broadly accurate)

fun answer? ‘Cos some people are boring and hate fun chess

Avatar of Magician
DoYouLikeCurry wrote:

Real answer? E4 tends to lead to more tactical games, D4 to more positional (huge generalisation, but broadly accurate)

fun answer? ‘Cos some people are boring and hate fun chess

fun answer is the real answer

Avatar of Crotonninja1

frrr e4 better

Avatar of MaetsNori
Crotonninja1 wrote:

seriously

Because after about the 10,000th time playing the Ruy Lopez, you finally start to get bored and you begin to look for something different ...

Avatar of Mikey383

the jobava london pretty much singlehandedly brought my rating up 300 points once i switched