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Which opening is the best for white?

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idkwhat_2_puthere

Personally, I prefer Queens Gambit or the bishop's opening.

pleewo

Fair enough fair enough. Queens gambit is legendary and bishops opening is awesome, it’s also good as a way to transpose into an Italian or something

TheSampson

The Queen's Gambit is part of the most legendary of the most legendary, probably only second to my favorite opening, the Ruy Lopez. The Bishop's Opening is pretty cool too, and you can sometimes transpose into an Italian.

idkwhat_2_puthere
TheSampson wrote:

The Queen's Gambit is part of the most legendary of the most legendary, probably only second to my favorite opening, the Ruy Lopez. The Bishop's Opening is pretty cool too, and you can sometimes transpose into an Italian.

Ruy Lopez is my 3rd favourite opening

FarBalancedPanda

try scotch

ThrillerFan

1.b4!

Best by test!

SamuelAjedrez95

It doesn't work exactly like that. There are a lot of good openings and which one you get the best play out of depends on you mostly. It also depends on what your opponent plays.

However some of the most respected and objectively best are:

  • Ruy Lopez
  • Queen's Gambit

These are the most respected as they are actively fighting for the centre and aiming to establish pawns on e4-d4. I prefer the Ruy Lopez, personally.

The Ruy Lopez does this by pressuring black's knight, which controls the centre, with Bb5 and later playing for c3-d4.

The Queen's Gambit does this by pressuring black's centre pawn from the flank with c4, and later playing for e4.

ThrillerFan
Ultimate-trashtalker wrote:

Let's argue thriller fan....i will start that one, b4 IS TRASH! IT SUCKS!

And my disproof to your arrogance is post 98 of https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-openings/why-is-the-polish-opening-so-good-yet-never-played

Of course, you are too weak to understand and would never find moves like 31.Rf8+!! and actually figure it out that it is a LOT worse for Black than even the QN vs RRPP or Q vs RPPP.

Basically Black's choice is be down QN vs RPP, with or without an extra Rook each, or else Q vs 3 extra pawns and no piece.

Tharkun2112

London System.

HarrisonTurne

A4!!!!!!!