Unidentified White Opening

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Pseudoapologetical

 Hey, just wondering if anybody could help me. This is an opening i usually try to use for white, but I've never known the name of it. Does anybody know what it is called?

woolwolf

If you ask me I would call it "The Symmetrical Opening" (objecvtively) or (as your opponent) "The Weak Square Opening"

Cool

Pseudoapologetical

Why would you call it "The Weak Square Opening"?

nqi
woolwolf wrote:

If you ask me I would call it "The Symmetrical Opening" (objecvtively) or (as your opponent) "The Weak Square Opening"

 


 The second one particulally. Watch that g3 square beg for a black piece.

corum

In my opinion, it's not an opening. It may have characteristics of certain openings and the position you show may be arrived at via certain openings. However, an opening is a set of moves by both players. So, white may open with 1. e4 (which you could call the King's pawn opening) but when black replies with 1. c5 it becomes a Sicilian; when black replies with 1. e6 it becomes the French. What sort of Sicilian or what sort of French depends upon the next move made by white (and also white and black subsequent moves). It may even start out as a french and turn (by transposition) into another opening.

Another way of looking at it is that it is a little unhealthy to think of your opening without considering what the opponent is going to do. A classic beginner's mistake is to make a move in the opening without considering even the most obvious response by the opponent. So I would encourage you to think of an opening as a sort of exchange (or dance) between white and black, not as a set of moves made by one side in isolation.