Worst Opening

Everybody posts asking about the best opening. What's the worst opening. I'm not talking about the Fools Mate or Andersons. Of the major openings and defenses, which one would you most like to face?
Which one would you least like to play.

For me, it's probably the Pirc.

Don't know if there's a name for it, but I see it a lot in the French Advance: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3?

For some reason this seems to be a common response at my level and below. After 4...cxd5 5. Nxd5, black has essentially accomplished his goal of erradicating the pawn off the d square and making the e5 pawn very weak. As black, I'm happy to play against this 🙂

Originally posted by Red Night
Everybody posts asking about the best opening. What's the worst opening. I'm not talking about the Fools Mate or Andersons. Of the major openings and defenses, which one would you most like to face?
Which one would you least like to play.

For me, it's probably the Pirc.

Any opening where they try to adavnce the wings without any central development....

i.e 1.h4/a4

Originally posted by Red Night
Of the major openings and defenses, which one would you most like to face?
Which one would you least like to play.

Originally posted by TommyC
I absolutely abhor this variation of the Scoth, the Mieses I think it's called:

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nxc6 bxc6 6. e5 Qe7 7.Qe2 Nd5 8. c4 Ba6

for both sides. The game usually becomes a big, weird mess. The Open Spanish I'm not a fan of either, although I think it's a slightly dodgy choice for black in correspondence chess.

The ...[text shortened]... losed Spanish and the Queen's Gambit Declined as white. I defend these as black too, though.

I think its bad for white to play a KG accepted where white tries to retake the pawn, or atleast at my level it has been a bad idea

Originally posted by cmsMaster
The worst SERIOUS opening, in my opinion, is probably the pirc/modern, simply because they hand over the center to white. (I know, I know it's a hypermodern, big deal) Obviously the worst openings are 1.h4 1.a4 etc.

Originally posted by EnigmaticCam
Don't know if there's a name for it, but I see it a lot in the French Advance: 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 c5 4. Nf3?

For some reason this seems to be a common response at my level and below. After 4...cxd5 5. Nxd5, black has essentially accomplished his goal of erradicating the pawn off the d square and making the e5 pawn very weak. As black, I'm happy to play against this 🙂

Originally posted by c guy1
I think its bad for white to play a KG accepted where white tries to retake the pawn, or atleast at my level it has been a bad idea

Originally posted by TommyC
Er, I'm not sure if you're implying the opening I posted wasn't 'SERIOUS' - but alas, it is. Kasparov played it his World Championship matches against both Anand and Karpov, for instance.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
That's nice, name one other occurance of it at any major tournament.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
That's nice, name one other occurance of it at any major tournament.

Originally posted by TommyC
No. Search the databases yourself, you'll find them.

Originally posted by cmsMaster
Ah, oops, sorry Tommy. I was talking about a4/h4 openings. :/ I thought you had posted those. My fault, sorry.