Good Question

What do you like to play against e4?

Almost any variation of Sicilian.

e5. i like solid defenses. if Nf3, Nc6. I'll play the main line ruy lopez, and basically main line everything

Scandi and Modern.

Sicilian - usually najdorf or schevinengen (probably misspelled)

I've been playing Alekhine's Defense for quite sometime now.

French Defense.

e6.

e5 after playing the CKD for awhile with mixed results, the Advance Var turned out to be a lot tougher than I thought it was. Now I play Petroffs Defense when possible and always accept the KG if offered. Eventually I'll try some RL defense (not the Berlin) or maybe play the FD for awhile, since I do have a clue in most of the main lines there.

I don't know what i'm playing!

Why do we not see the pro's using Alekhine's?  Surely it hasn't been refuted!?

alekhines defense

Sicilian Najdorf

@shepi13, schvenigen

or I like to play the Ruy Lopez/Two Knights defence

I also play the alekhine; no it's not refuted.It's not played (much) at high levels because 1)white has a slight edge (nothing dramatic) in several lines 2)(and i think more important) white can choose the game type. I mean, there are not many serious openings where white can play for an advantage both in razor-sharp and relatively dull lines. So neither the solid defender not the brave counterattacker GM will make 1...Nf6 his main defence. It's not so uncommon as a surprise weapon.

The last super-GM encounter in the alekhine (with a standard time control) is I think Topalov-Carlsen (2006? i can't remember) 0-1. Carlsen played the alekhine quite a lot in recent years, but mainly in blitz games.

shepi13, it's Schvenigen

And I play the Sicilian dragon/najdorf, King's Indian Defense, Reversed Sicilian, Two Knights Defense, Ruy Lopez Main line, and 1. e4

*Scheveningen - district of The Hague, Netherlands

French

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