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I wanted Opinions on Current opening and Defenses and if they gave any advantage by playing them or if they just cause trouble.

Robatsch Defense: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Qe2
Hippopotamus Defense: 1 e4 Nh6 2 d4 g6 3 c4 f6
Italian Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
Lemberg CounterGambit: 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 e5

Thanks for the Comments ahead of time.

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The italian game seems out of place there. It's the line computers without opening books seem to gravitate towards and there is rarely much in terms of tactics as the line quickly wears out leading to a boring endgame and draw.

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how about

1.e4 f5 exf5 Kf7!!!!!!

heres a game with it-

1.e4 f5
2.exf5 kf7
3.Qh5+ g6
4.fxg6+ Kg7
5.gxh7 Rxh7
6.Qe5+ Nf6
7.Qg3+ Kh8
8.d4 Nc6
9.Bd3 Rg7
0-1

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Originally posted by jvanhine
how about

1.e4 f5 exf5 Kf7!!!!!!

heres a game with it-

1.e4 f5
2.exf5 kf7
3.Qh5+ g6
4.fxg6+ Kg7
5.gxh7 Rxh7
6.Qe5+ Nf6
7.Qg3+ Kh8
8.d4 Nc6
9.Bd3 Rg7
Wow Jvanhile who did that? Ive never seen that before, I'm all about coming up with Weird Openings to win a game just to make it more exciting, but thats overdoing it, I'd call that CHESS SUICIDE, youve got to show me that game send that link, Wow.

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Originally posted by c00ushion
Wow Jvanhile who did that? Ive never seen that before, I'm all about coming up with Weird Openings to win a game just to make it more exciting, but thats overdoing it, I'd call that CHESS SUICIDE, youve got to show me that game send that link, Wow.
"miguel hemzo" won that game, unfortunatly that was the only black win.... (on chesslive.de)

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Originally posted by c00ushion
I wanted Opinions on Current opening and Defenses and if they gave any advantage by playing them or if they just cause trouble.

Robatsch Defense: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Qe2
Hippopotamus Defense: 1 e4 Nh6 2 d4 g6 3 c4 f6
Italian Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
Lemberg CounterGambit: 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 e5

Thanks for the Comments ahead of time.
Don't forget Latvian Gambit: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5

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Originally posted by c00ushion
I wanted Opinions on Current opening and Defenses and if they gave any advantage by playing them or if they just cause trouble.

Robatsch Defense: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Qe2
Hippopotamus Defense: 1 e4 Nh6 2 d4 g6 3 c4 f6
Italian Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
Lemberg CounterGambit: 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 e5

Thanks for the Comments ahead of time.
Robatsch Defense: Playable at all levels. (But your example is really a Pirc, since you put the knight on f6.)

Hippo: Probably not very good, although Spassky played a variation of it twice in his World Championship match against Petrosian in 1966 - and drew both games!

Italian: Great opening from USCF 1000 to 2800.

Lemberg: Never seen it, so I can't comment.

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Originally posted by c00ushion
I wanted Opinions on Current opening and Defenses and if they gave any advantage by playing them or if they just cause trouble.

Robatsch Defense: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Qe2
Hippopotamus Defense: 1 e4 Nh6 2 d4 g6 3 c4 f6
Italian Game: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5
Lemberg CounterGambit: 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.e4 e5

Thanks for the Comments ahead of time.
Try this bad boy out.
1 f3
2 c3
3 Ke1f2

Game 2851618 or Game 2866158 could happen.

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Originally posted by c00ushion

Robatsch Defense: 1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Bc4 Nf6 5.Qe2
Yeah, that really is the Pirc, and you gave a setup which is good for black.