I've always had problems with the Caro Kann as white, for some reason. I don't play 1. e4 as much as I used to, so it's not as much of an issue any more.
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Cant stand it, But I do OK
I've always found the Scandinavian a nuisance in blitz games especially (I always look for a way to refute the clearly inferior lines some opponents play, and almost always either run out of time or just lose).
I dislike 1.c4, as it's an opening I don't have good preparation on. The English also can be very confusing with its transpositional nature, let alone the careful lines that are wholly its own, and I sometimes get lost. I have a plus against it, though!
I hate the Stonewall Attack, I find it extremely boring to play against, ruins all the fun.
1.d4 when playing black.
Also struggle against the Caro-Kann often as white.
Both because they lead to pretty boring positions, in my opinion.
The pirc does me every time. I just have a mental block with it. The 150 attack with castling kingside for white seems to be helping me, but I'd love to hear some other ideas. Oh, and I used to have a problem with the scandinavian until I discovered that black's light squared bishop is very important to him and well worth exchanging, preferably forced with a knight.
bambette wrote:
The pirc does me every time. I just have a mental block with it. The 150 attack with castling kingside for white seems to be helping me, but I'd love to hear some other ideas. Oh, and I used to have a problem with the scandinavian until I discovered that black's light squared bishop is very important to him and well worth exchanging, preferably forced with a knight.
150 attack is perfectly fine way of handling the pirc. Imo one of the best.
I really hate lines I don't know of. When someone plays one, I have a really hard time. Besides that, I dislike openings that are too positional. I have no particular dislikes, though.
Look for Liu Wenzhe vs Jan Hein Donner; maybe that game would give you some ideas (Black was slightly suicidal, but hey, he was a GM playing 'just another master').
The English opening kinda bums me out as black. I love to play weird off-beat stuff and some less popular gambits, but the English i(1.c4) is solid and and has alot of good ways for white to get a nice edge without black being able to come up with any reasonable non-sense.
I hate the Petroff. I remember someone saying it's the reason why a few GMs stopped playing 1. e4. It's just very dry and boring to play against.
Nyctalop wrote:
I hate the Petroff. I remember someone saying it's the reason why a few GMs stopped playing 1. e4. It's just very dry and boring to play against.
Look up the Cochrane Gambit - 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nxf7!?
It gets play as an occasional surprise level even at the highest levels. Apparently, Topalov and Nigel Short have both used it. Here's a link to some high level games: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesscollection?cid=1004259
Nyctalop wrote:
I hate the Petroff. I remember someone saying it's the reason why a few GMs stopped playing 1. e4. It's just very dry and boring to play against.
Petroff is no problem if you follow Sam Collins line imo:
Something like that. I'm not 100% sure about blacks move order but it's easy and logical development for white with a kingside attack.
I don't like facing the french. There is no good option to force the game into an open game.
FirebrandX wrote:
I'm not particularly happy defending a QGD when white opts for the exchange variation. White can either play the minority attack or play in the center. Both are difficult to meet for black.
That's exactly the reason why I play the slav defense instead of the QGD. Just watch white cringe when he sees 2. ...c6.
AtahanT wrote:
I don't like facing the french. There is no good option to force the game into an open game.
LOL sees to me that you have never played and exchange French then. Apart from the exchange variation there are quite a few gambits that give life to white's play.
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i hate playing against the queen's gambit since i find it boring.
king's indian defense is not my favorite to play against also, again because i just don't find it that interesting.
i also don't really enjoy playing against the petroff. possibly because i just don't feel comfortable with it.
zxb995511 wrote:
AtahanT wrote:
I don't like facing the french. There is no good option to force the game into an open game.
LOL sees to me that you have never played and exchange French then. Apart from the exchange variation there are quite a few gambits that give life to white's play.
Uhm, in any other opening you can get an open game without risking a pawn and the exchange variation is really not that great if you're fighting for an advantage. I mean compare it to the caro-kann which is extremely solid but you can still force an open game with the panov attack and the only consession is the IQP and not a whole pawn sac. This is why so many e4 players hate the french while they do not have any problems facing all the other defenses.
Is there an opening you particularly dislike? One that you perform especially poorly against? Or maybe one that grates with you, for whatever reason, be it in principle, in a certain line, or anything? I find the positions reached in the Advance Variation of the French especially annoying (which is why I don't play it any more, but go for the Exchange Variation). It's not even that I perform very poorly against it, but that too many of the games I play in it lead to draws for some reason. And before you ask, I play 1.e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4.c4, which rarely leads to draws.