Anybody else? I already got the ball rolling...or tried to.
Open Vs. Closed

Yeah, E4 is pretty popular, i used to love it...then i discovered d4. Been playing with it for a couple months now.

with 1.d4 it's pretty hard to open the game
for some reason people( noobs) will play 1.d4 and push all their kingside pawns and i you castle your dead :P
and usually the c5- break isn't enought :(

Yeah, that is noobs though, I prefer to keep my game closed, Castle queenside, then throw kingside pawns. But it all depends on the situation.

umm... where did that that other guy go? you know the guy calling us fags
whitetrash or something?
those moderators are fast!

Yeah, sad that it took that to get this topic a post, but his title for his forum post i corrected his spelling and everybody lol'd. but yeah back on topic... o_O


I prefer to play open,..sharp and fast,..so I choose d4 for opening game
But D4 is the common move for a closed game. Do you mean E4?
Just want to see which game type is preffered among you players out there along with your reasons why. I myself prefer Queen Pawn closed games. I Prefer things to be closed because I do pretty well with that play style, plus i find in alot of cases, many people dont like closed games. I also like things to be a bit more complicated as closed games generally are. Let The Discussion Begin!