Aggressive positional openings

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agmchess
Hey guys, I'm in need of some help. I'm looking for an aggressive positional opening for white. Really need this to start my preparation for tournament play. Any suggestions would be appreciated!
TalSpin
Danish Gambit. Fried Liver Attack. Fried Liver, you need to know your stuff
CNoahSay

queens gambit positional line and the french repertoire of simon williams

incantevoleutopia

Aggressive positional? Brace yourself, godspawn's coming.

PvPchesskid1221
Fried liver is my favourite
eaguiraud

If you want aggressive you can go into the scotch gambit and maybe get into the max Lange attack, the Morphy attack, haxo gambit, etc. If you want a more positional approach in the scotch gambit then play the mainline, it can get exciting sometimes. If you do not like gambits then play the scotch, plain and simple.

GodsPawn2016

No one rated almost 2100 USCF asks this question.

uttanka

nice oxymoron

eaguiraud

I had not seen his rating. His profile description is quite informative too: "i is porn"

kindaspongey

Possibly helpful:

A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White by IM John Watson (2012), Playing 1.d4 by Lars Schandorff (2012), The Kaufman Repertoire for Black & White by GM Larry Kaufman (2012), and A Cunning Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Graham Burgess (2013). I think Watson, Schandorff, and Kaufman advocated 1 d4 d5 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Nf6 4 cxd5 exd5 5 Bg5, while Burgess advocated 1 d4 d5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 c4 e6 4 Nc3 Be7 5 Bf4.

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627105428/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen161.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140626221508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen162.pdf

http://theweekinchess.com/john-watson-reviews/john-watson-book-review-110-repertoires-in-the-age-of-carlsen

whatupy0dog

parham attack

Fomalhautt

give the sicilian a try

chessrook_80

Catalan and sicilian scheveningen.

tigerbaitlsu

Catalan openings often end up with white sacking a pawn for a pure positional edge in the position.... even if black doesnt try to hold onto the pawn you can really get  nice position out of the opening. 

BronsteinPawn

@Diakonia!

SAGM001

1. d4 2. c4 3. Nc3 Setups

whatupy0dog

parham attack

Fomalhautt

I would highly recommend the Scandinavian Defense.  This opening gives White plenty of opportunities to make strong positional moves

adumbrate

 

turk505
tigerbaitlsu wrote:

Catalan openings often end up with white sacking a pawn for a pure positional edge in the position.... even if black doesnt try to hold onto the pawn you can really get  nice position out of the opening. 

Yeah, I'm a beginner and used to almost exclusively play the Catalan. It can get very positional (but I'm not much of a positional player, so I had to drop it because I never knew what to do).

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