English vs Queen's Gambit

I sometimes feel like it's hard to get an advantage with 1.c4. Should I switch to 1.d4 and play the catalan etc.? The whole hypermodern style of play seems difficult compared to classical.

I think it's easier to become good at classical chess before hypermodern. Similar to Picasso painting realistically before creating his abstract works

I am very interested in this topic, too.

I play c4 all the time and have won enough games with it.

I think you should play e4!

Why? Forcing lines and loads of theory and traps...

Salimi98 skrev:

I think you should play e4!

Good question. Me too.

I started playing with c4. Then I worked on QG for awhile, and now find myself morphing from the English to the QG almost all the time. I am a rookie.

I play the queens gambit but I know quite a few strong players who play 1. c4. The big difference from my perspective is that correct play in the english revolves around pieces mostly, and 1. d4 2. c4 games revolve heavily around pawns and how they're used. I feel like sometimes players who play 1. c4 have problems using their pawns correctly as black and try to rely on their pieces too much, but if you realize that's a potential weakness and work on it I don't see why you couldn't play the English all the way to master or even GM. Feel free to play both the Catalan and the English, there is a lot of transposition possible.

Do you want to say that queen pawn doesn't have theory!????

I just mention some of lines

1.slav(over 10 line)2. dutch(3lines)3.Nc6(countless lines!!!)

I belive that e4 has less theory!(If you play one side line against sicilian)

in addition lot of GM say that d4 is more postional and e4 is better for club players