i thought there was a thread the past few days on responses to 1 e4, and many were promoting Nf6.... that seemed interesting. anyone know that thread? i'm simply too much of a lazy shit to look it up. hopefully it wasn't a response to d4....lol. maybe it was...
since you play e4, but hate responding to e4... maybe you hate being black against e4 cause of all the italian and four knights, which seem kind of boring....... i try the petrof, which is fun, sort of, unless they go into a sort of four knights thing, which is defihnitely not fun, at least for me. since i play blitz, and at a low level i throw weird gambits at guys, probably very unsound, but it's blitz. i'm just trying to throw up lots of tactics and get things moving. i am sick of the italian with endless prophylactic pawns, bishop pins, and the only possible exciement is a potential for a little fried liver with a nice................chianti. but i am not a fan of the fried liver either.... boring.
i'm pretty surprised you are bored with the sicilian.......
i am having a bad day. the capctha, i'm trying to mate my own king.................... didn't work, altho... a new variant? jeezus krist.
Try the Pirc, in particular, you might look at the hedgehog formation. It complements well with 1.b3 (2.c4) as white. Fun and not to heavy on theory. And it works in response to 1.d4 too!
@AACtrl i just saw some material on pirc and i already like it!!!! thanks for the suggestion.
@BlagojeJovovic for me, the accelerated dragons seem a bit sketchy, but some people may like it.
@AACtrl I would not agree that the hedgehog and his transpositions are so funny and do not require excellent knowledge of the theory, as well as not to mention that one mistake in the sequence of moves costs so much pressure
@AACtrl I play hedgehog, transposition from c5, e6 paulsen, nimzoindian and c4, but I think that on d6 hedgehog it will be possible once in a million games, oh of course you can build that structure by force, but the outcome of the game is important isn't it
@HypersupremeNitro I agree I'm not a fan either, I just gave an example, but there is the so-called `´sniper, the first three moves are always the same on every move of white, g6-Bg7-c5, very interesting positions are created with the main motif f5
e4 - e5: Italian (Evans and Fried Liver Attack)
Nimzowitsch Attack vs Petrov
e4 - e6: Two Knights French
e4 - c6: Two Knights Caro-Kann
e4 - d6/g6: Austrian Attack
e4 - d5: Normal Nc3
e4 - Nf6: Four Pawns Attack
e4 -c5: Normal open sicilian
For Black:
e4 - e5: It's very critical to know the open game.
King's Gambit - Falkbeer
Scotch - Intermezzo
Italian - Bc5
Ruy - Marshall Gambit/Flohr System (probably the Flohr)
Four knights - Just know the fork trick, rest is just fundamental play
d4 - Nf6: King's Indian
c4/Nf3 - Nf6 can also transpose into a King's indian.
My Personal Ideal Main Repertoire.
The main issue seems to be boredom, no? You can play the same openings, and then pick a different variation and still see some different play. Chinese Dragon in the Dragon, for example. Switching to a different Sicilian for a bit like the Dragon or Kan (Hedgehog system is the best and cutest) Other suggestions would be to switch it up with how you play. Be even more daring in trying to complicate things, maybe every blitz game try to sac the exchange for any compensation. Maybe if your an attacker, try to take some breaks with prophylaxis before attacking. Finding new ideas in the openings you play helps as well. Look for some, This Week in Chess (TWIC) usually has some really new fresh games. Download the latest or two and find some games in the openings you play (You can use any GUI for this, if you don't have ChessBase SCID is the best.) Using Stockfish, with multiple threads as well (Like analysis tool or some other GUI) with the openings you play can also find some ideas (even if its slightly dubious that shouldn't stop you from playing interesting chess)
I think if you choose a opening that isn't difficult to learn like the e5,but if e5 isn't the most suitable for you maybe the alekine or nimzowitsch both move knights on the the first move but might be some complicated opening theory.I am a sicilian player too and I like the sicilian so maybe try a different opening and come back to sicilian. Also on lichess there is a place called opening explorer to learn opening theory
lichess.org/analysis#explorer here is the link(what I said is mostly about black sooo...).
najdorf sicilian is good for black. I beat several high rated players with this
