Rate in what sense?
Soundness: White - 10, Black - 8, 8, and 6
King Safety: White - 9, Black - 3, 5, and 3
Opinion (i.e. Do we like to play them ourselves?): White - 9, Black - 1, 3, and 1
Rate in what sense?
Soundness: White - 10, Black - 8, 8, and 6
King Safety: White - 9, Black - 3, 5, and 3
Opinion (i.e. Do we like to play them ourselves?): White - 9, Black - 1, 3, and 1
What do you mean with "all main lines" do you ONLY play mainlines? That sounds like a lot of theoretical work...
lol my repetoir would score very low
yours for me is white 10 Black 10,8,5
mine are
White: KG, Mainline Sicilian/Sveshnikov, Italian Game (Always try for an Evans Gambit), Ocasionally a Halloween Gambit to have fun
Black: Dragon Sicilian, Dutch Defense, Ruy Lopez with an early b5 looking to fianchetto, Italian Game Bc5
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
Maybe you should try some gambits like the smith morra, or a d4 opening like the catalan for white.
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
Maybe you should try some gambits like the smith morra, or a d4 opening like the catalan for white.
I used to play the smith morra. It is fun and all, but black can equalize if they know what they are doing or take thier time. So I choose mainline and see what they know and can do (may the better player win). As for d4 and the catalan, I prefer to be attacking and tactical instead of positional. I like a gun blazing duel where the first person to have thier gun jam loses.
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
Maybe you should try some gambits like the smith morra, or a d4 opening like the catalan for white.
I used to play the smith morra. It is fun and all, but black can equalize if they know what they are doing or take thier time. So I choose mainline and see what they know and can do (may the better player win). As for d4 and the catalan, I prefer to be attacking and tactical instead of positional. I like a gun blazing duel where the first person to have thier gun jam loses.
Amen brother!
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
against 1...e5, the itailian isn't a bad idea.Its not unsound by any means. When your ready then switch to the ruy. GOOD STUFF :D
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
against 1...e5, the itailian isn't a bad idea.Its not unsound by any means. When your ready then switch to the ruy. GOOD STUFF :D
Italian and Ruy are both fun, but instead you should play 2. f4 and dominate!
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
against 1...e5, the itailian isn't a bad idea.Its not unsound by any means. When your ready then switch to the ruy. GOOD STUFF :D
Italian and Ruy are both fun, but instead you should play 2. f4 and dominate!
I had thought of playing the king's gambit. It is very theoretical though and not sure how much theory I want to focus on at the moment.
Rating openings. Okay, starting from the lowest on up:
Damiano: 2, only thing keeping it from being a 1 is that 3...fxe5 isn't forced and 3...Qe7 gives white a lead in development and superior activity while the black queen gets bounced around.
Englund Gambit: 3, at best black obtains a From gambit with the huge difference that white played 1.d4 instead of 1.f4, so 3.Nf3 isn't forced (is a good and natural move anyway) but 3.e4 can be played instead. This is because of white's sore e1-h4 diagonal.
Latvian Gambit: 3.5, can be tricky, though black violates so many principles and the refutation isn't too hard to forget.
Danish Gambit: 3.5 white sacrifices two pawns for Horowitz bishops. Black just has to keep cool, keep his defensive technique in tact, and win.
Basman Defense: 3.75, might be a forced win for white, but seems more playable than the Latvian despite the weaknesses.
Grob: 4. It doesn't lose by force, but isn't necessary to weaken the king that much.
King's Gambit: 4.5 Doesn't lose by force, but the draw will be very hard faught, and white must fight harder than black assuming best play. Black has higher practical winning chances.
Sicilian Dragon: 5. Black makes a few positional concessions, d5 is weak, vulnerable to pawn storms, white has more leeway, even more than usual.
Van Geet: 5.5. Not white's best knight move, and at worst he might have to deal with a reversed mainline Caro-Kahn where black gets c7-c5 in one go (instead of the typical c6-c5)
From Gambit: 5.5. Black has compensation for the pawn, may fight against a pawn center (d4+e4) but has enough tempi to restrain, blockade, and perhaps execute it later.
Dutch Defense (overall): 5.5 Good to play as black, but so many lines white can throw at you. Even the gambits are sound (1.d4,f5 2.Qd3,d5 3.g4!?,fxg4 4.h3 and black should play 4...g3! with a tough and equal game.) (1.d4,f5 2.Nf3,g6 3.h4,Nf6 4.h5,Nxh5 5.Rxh5!,gxh5 6.e4! is very hard to play as black, this one line tanks the Dutch's score hard)
Petrov's Defense: 6. I don't personally care too much for it because it's very drawish and imbalances are very few if any. Symmetrical pawn distribution, if not outright structures, similar pieces, rooks may fight for the same file, etc.
Leningrad Dutch: 6.5. There are some positional concessions (e6 in particular and the long light diagonal, c6 can be played to obstruct the bishop's view of the b-pawn and watches over d5, but creates its own set of problems so I prefer the Qe8-e5 lines where white takes en passant and black plays Nc5xe6) but the game can go either way. Engines initially despite it, but once the horizon effect kicks in is usually seen as a slight advantage for white at best.
Smith-Morra Gambit: 6.5
Exchange French: 6.5 helps black with his bad bishop problem, but after 1.e4,e6 2.d4,d5 3.exd5,exd5 4.c4 white challenges the center and goes for active piece play. The e-file especially will be important for both sides. Chess is all about the piece play, why let pawns get in the way?
Caro-Kahn Panov-Botvinnik Attack: 7. The game takes on a queen's gambit flavor with the important difference of the semi-open e-file for white and semi-open c-file for black. White obtains an isolated d-pawn, so has e5 and c5 outposts and plans to eventually play d5-exd5-Nxd5 with active piece play and a strong attack. Black's aim is naturally to prevent this, like most other IQP positions. Typically the side with the IQP wants to keep minors and trade heavies since the heavies can attack it from the front tying pieces to the defense. Pieces are more flexible when attacking than defending usually. Blockaders likewise should have flexibility, making the square in front of the blockaded pawn a pivot.
Taimanov Sicilian: 7
Paulsen Sicilian: 7.5
Evan's Gambit: 7.5
Giuoco Piano: 8
Scoth: 8.5
Benko Gambit: 8.5
Nimzo-Bogo Indian complex: 8.5
Queen's Indian: 8.5 but more theoretical and prepared for than the Bogo usually
Catalan: 8.5
Queen's Gambit: 9
King's Indian: 9.5
King's English: 9.5
Hedgehog: 9.5
Ruy Lopez Marshall Attack: 9.5
Ruy Lopez Berlin Wall: 10 Queenless middlegames seem awkward but if you know the theory you'll have a very playable and enjoyable experience from either side.
Sicilian Najdorf: 10
I like the opening choices you have. It would take a lot of work, but the pay off would be huge. What do you think of mine?
White: 1. e4 with open sicilian, Caro-Kann Panov-Botvinik Attack, French Defense Tarrasch Defense where I sacrifice the d4 pawn, Pirc: 3. Be3 with a kind of Austrian Attack, and unsure if I want to do the Italian or Ruy Lopez.
Black: Najdorf and King's Indian
Very theorertical with black and with white main lines, but more of middle game knowledge.
Maybe you should try some gambits like the smith morra, or a d4 opening like the catalan for white.
I used to play the smith morra. It is fun and all, but black can equalize if they know what they are doing or take thier time. So I choose mainline and see what they know and can do (may the better player win). As for d4 and the catalan, I prefer to be attacking and tactical instead of positional. I like a gun blazing duel where the first person to have thier gun jam loses.
I see your point, good luck with your openings. :)
White: 1.e4 all main lines
Black: Najdorf, KID, and grunfeld.