Well, I am sure that there are many opening experts that can give you idea how best to appraoch.
I like Nimzo Indian, as it has just few variations, and white commits more mistakes than black in this. Apart from it, I cannot help you, even though I would be watching this forum closely.
What kind of game are you trying to get?
I would prefer more of a counter-attack (instead of a defense) with open play.
Then if d4 d5 c4 dxc4 the QGA is completely counterattacking. Generally the black pieces are easy to develop and most of the time it's a more open game.
d4 d5 Nf3 Nf6 c4 would transpose.
If they play a London, Colle, Stonewall then an early c5. Although with d4 d5 Nf3 Nf6 e3 I fianchetto into some kind of Gruenfeld I guess aiming for c5 or e5. The fianchetto is good against the Colle and Stonewall. Usually pinning the Nf3 knight is also annoying for those players.
I play the fianchetto against the Dutch so I don't know how much fun you'd have.
Wait...woah...
I liked the Nimzo-Indian defense but I didn't try to play for it because I hated the Q.I.D. which I thought was what it changed to when white played 3.Nf3, but just now I found the Bogo-Indian defense the 3.Nf3 leads to and I like it...
I think the opening that fits my repertoire will now be the Nimzo-Indian defense which I so easily "discarded" a few minutes ago.
Next time I won't discard an opening so easily, haha
Thank you guys for the comments :P
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QGA is again very attacking game. I will study upto it...
Be aware of Nimzo-Indian though, as white tends to avoid it, and changes the order of moves or moves itself, or tries to steer game away from it. Which in itself might say lot about it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimzo-Indian_Defence
So, your reportiore might look like Nimzo-Indian, Bogo Indian,....
In the past few weeks I have been studying opening theory and finding opens I like to add to my repertoire. I have found a solid opening that I enjoyed greatly for white, the Queen's Gambit. I then moved on to finding defense for when I played as black. I first looked for something against 1.e4 which seems to be the most common move on chess.com (which is another reason why I like playing 1.d4) and I found the Sicilian defense. (I still haven't decided the version of the Sicilian that I like the best, I just play what seems to be the best move to me at the time.) And know I am searching for a good defense or counter-attack against white's 1.d4 (the move that I play most often).
At first I just played the slav as a default, I didn't really know anything about it; I didn't know the theory and I didn't know it's weaknesses. Then after looking at some of the games of Anand and Topalov's Title Match I noticed that they play 1...Nf6 in response to 1.d4 in a majority of the games they played (7 out of the 12 to be exact). So thinking that it was probably the best opening I started studying the Indian Defenses.
First I studied the K.I.D. but then found out I didn't really like how it played, I wasn't too big on the fianchetto or the somewhat slower/closed play it lead to. After that I tried out the Grunfeld, and I must say that I preferred it much more than the K.I.D. but still I wasn't a big fan of it.
I then went on to the Q.I.D. and the Nizmo-Indian. I liked these two. The Q.I.D. still had a fianchetto'd bishop but I didn't really mind because it was on the queen's side. I stuck with these two for a while but I started liking them less each time I played.
Someone then later told me that 1...Nf6 wasn't neccessarily the best move and that some GMs just played 1...Nf6 too make it harder for there opponents to prepare for a game because 1...Nf6 can lead to many different openings so it makes it much harder to prepare for their opponent, while 1...d5 can only lead to a few making it easier to prepare for. Some time after I learned this I discarded the Indian Defense from my repertoire and went on to find something that I liked.
And now, here I am, still unsure of what to play against 1.d4. I searched forums and articles and I now have a few other openings that may be the one that fits into my opening repertoire;
The first opening that I started considering is the Slav. I still don't know much about the slav but I have heard people say good things about it but then again I've heard people say bad things also. I don't think Slav has a good chance of being in my repertoire.
The next is the Dutch defense. I've heard many people say that this defense is bad, I've even heard someone call it a joke, but it interests me. It interests me mainly because it provides a great element of surprise (to most players anyways) and it can be played against not only 1.d4, but also 1.c4 and 1.Nf6. I came upon the Dutch defense by the similarity it has to the Sicilian. I think right now the Dutch Defense has the best chance of being in my repertoire.
And this is where it stops. Now I want your guy's advice. Should I go with the Slav defense? If so then why? Should I go with the Dutch? If so then why? Is there another opening besides all these that you think is best? Why do you think it's the best? What do you guys play against 1.d4? Was I wrong to discard all Indian Defenses?
Thank you.
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*I apologize about the length of this forum and if someone actually did take the time to read this forum, I thank you. :)