Hello everyone can you help me pick a dfene against 1.e4 I narrowed it down to two defense's that I mosly win with. 

1. French defense

2. Alkhine defense (don't know if it's spelled right). you can make it into a hurt/heal form.

pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaassssssssseeeeeeeeee help.

This is what i recommend...

1. Ruy Lopez

2. French Defense

3. Scandavinan

Absolutely the French, I hate it as white.

HOGWASH

ruy lopez for beginners

I definitely recommend sticking with the french.

WHAT DOES HOGWASH MEAN. I VE NEVER SEEN THAT WORD IN ENGLISH BEFORE. IS IT LIKE HOGWARTS IN HARRY POTTER?

You're either very young or haven't been in the US very long.

It means nonsense. Balderdash. Rubbish.

(What's a Harry Potter?)

Getting some random people to decide for you is not a good idea. Only you can do that.

hogwash from the Oxford English Dictionary:

a. The swill of a brewery or kitchen given to hogs; pig's-wash.

c1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 81 ey in e kechyn, for iape, pouryd on here hefd hoggyswasch. 1611 COTGR., Lavailles, Swillings, Hogs-wash, washings for Swine. 1708 MOTTEUX Rabelais V. xv. (1737) 58 Ten Sows..could swill Hogwash. 1844 P. HAWKER Diary (1893) II. 247 Wine little better than hogwash.

    b. Contemptuously applied to weak inferior liquor or any worthless stuff. Esp. applied to inferior writings of any kind.

1712 ARBUTHNOT John Bull I. x, Your butler purloins your liquor, and the brewer sells you hogwash. 1773 GARRICK Let. 16 Nov. (1831) I. 583 The Fair Quaker, which we agreed to be skimmed milk, (nay, hogwash) whipped up into syllabub, and swallowed by a foolish audience as if substantial as roast beef. 1882 B. HARTE Flip ii, That's the sort of hog-wash the old man serves out to you. 1883 In Carquinez Woods 155 He had ‘had enough of that sort of hog-wash ladled out to him for genuine liquor’. 1893 FARMER & HENLEY Slang III. 329/2 Hogwash..(journalists’).Worthless newspaper matter. 1912 G. B. SHAW in Daily News 22 May 6/5 Exactly the same ‘hogwash’..would have been lavished on the veriest dastards as upon a crew of Grace Darlings. 1930 WYNDHAM LEWIS Apes of God v. 161 Yes, man alive, a lousy limited edition of an intellectually-fraudulent book that no one could sell, that no one would want!.. Not even as honest-to-goodness bookstall hogwash. 1939 L. DURRELL Spirit of Place (1969) 62 Only look at the faces of cabinet without reading their hogwash and you see that they are a pack of degenerates. 1955 A. HUXLEY Genius & Goddess 36 Tripe and hogwash dished out by the moulders of public opinion. 1965 Spectator 5 Mar. 293/1 The whole of the artistic world has been debauched by the hogwash of the do-it-yourself vogue.

hogwash is not an american word.  it's british english.  from middle english actually.

It beats hagwash.

HOGWASH! 

"Hogwash" is in common usage in the U.S. Exactly as Anthony defined it, as "Bullsh*t" --  That OED definition shows British "Hogwash" carrying some overtones that have been lost in the US... certainly in the US Hogwash does not suggest weak liquor, and only very faintly "inferior writing" ... It is used here with an almost complete emphasis on "worthless stuff."  

But 99% of American English has it roots in Middle English -- you can't use that say it's British English! We're all speaking English after all.

look at the references.  it is england english.  that being said, it's heavily used in the USA.  of course it is.  i wasn't suggesting otherwise.  the interpretation that it means bullshit comes from the british not american.  sorry.  although your observation that the americans have established its heavy use is correct.

it doesn't only mean weak liquor it means any worthless stuff.  read the post.

I thought this was meant to be an opening for black. Now it has become a linguistic battle ground.

Any way I didn't know that so much of people loved the french defense.

The French defense is amazing, just make sure you know the three big variations-

1. Exchange Variation! 1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 etc.

2. Advance Variation! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 etc.

3. Winawer Variation! 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb5 etc.

In my opinion, these are the three main variations of the French, and therefore important to learn.

I hope this helps!

French..

1.e4 e6 2.Qe2! (Chigorin came up with this gem) French players cringe when they see this. They are no longer in their comfort zone and soon collapse from fear and confusion.

the french is probably  easier to learn and easier to get a good game for normal chess player.

Bring it on Frenchy! See post #19 for refutation.

the french would be better