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What are everyone's favorite openings for white and defense for black?

I prefer the King's Gambit and French defense.

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I thikn this is the 357th time we've covered this topic but....

English
French Defense
Benko Gambit d4.

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d4 as white, mostly.

alekhine defense against e4, nimzo against d4.

trying the sicilian kan though.

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Ruy Lopez, King's Gambit or Morra Gambit as white, Sicilian or Slav as Black.

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English as white.
Caro-Kann against e4
KID against d4 and c4

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evans & kings gambits

Sicilian najdorf, and KID

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Scilican is a good choice but a little bit hard to play with all the variation

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Yeah, this is actually the 358th time we've covered it. 😛

Adv. Caro, Reti Gambit French, 150 Attack, Open Sicilian (Freak Attack/Yugoslav Attack/Bxf6/Keres Attack/Undecided against the others)

Sicilian Dragon, Yugoslav Attack, Soltis Variation

Benko Gambit (I've really tried giving the KID a try, but things honestly seem too positional), Semi-Slav in CC as well.

And, as everyone probably knows, King's Gambit - both KNG and KBG, mostly KNG recently.

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The post that was quoted here has been removed
Semi-Slav isn't bad, but the Benko seems much better suited for amatuers OTB.

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Scotch game is fun 🙂

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Originally posted by MoneyMaker7
Scotch game is fun 🙂
I thought you were a KG player...

Agh, I just looked through a couple of your games.

It's 1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 (Or Bc4) but NOT d4.

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kings gambit, halloween gambit, petrov cochrane gambit

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Originally posted by SSJ4GogetaSSJ4
kings gambit, halloween gambit, petrov cochrane gambit
Once again, you guys should choose an opening. At your level it's not a good idea to use 2.f4 AND 2.Nf3 - they're totally different.

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Originally posted by cmsMaster
Yeah, this is actually the 358th time we've covered it. 😛
So few times - I don't believe it!

... but I'll tell you all again.

Kings Gambit vs e5;
Morra Gambit vs c5;
Panov-Botvinnik vs c6;
Advance vs e6.

As black
Open vs Ruy Lopez;
Benoni vs d4.

This covers 90% of the games I am likely to play.

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