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What Openings do you guys like to use as white?

With name, sniper you should play openings with dangerous bishops like Fischer.
e4 Bc4 Bb2 everyone. Or Colle Zukertort... pew pew

English, Catalan, Reti-Larsen, Jobava.
Against KID play Makagonov or Botvinnik English. Against Grunfeld possibly f3 or h4 or Accelerated Russian. Whatever comes to mind if I ever see it.
Against Dutch I have no idea. Get my rook off a1 maybe reverse Scheveningen, push Harry or Gary. Get horsey on e5. Then lose.

I figure if ima gonna be confused half the game might as well play openings so my opponents can also be confused.
against high elos I play queen's gambit; against <900 I play more aggressive like fried liver or Danish.
(I don't know what titled players do... ) I'm just a mortal.

I went for mastery of pawn certain formations and use openings (as White or Black) that employ those Pawn Formations.

I concentrated on the Triangle formation

As White: I play the Colle Koltanowski, The Stonewall Attack and some Queen's Gambits. These openings get a fair amount of snark and diss....: Yet, I study to be versed in the pawn formations, the piece play and strive to have a fair understanding of what endgames to play for, and what to look for to transpose to a better line etc.

At my level.... Many play a line that leads to equality, but once they get there don't understand the nuances of the position. (that is a large percentage)
Mainly Catalan now , but I used to play everything
As white I only play the Mason Attack: Pawn D4 ,pawn E3 Pawn F4, I then get my knight onto E6 and Fiancetto my bishop. This is unsound playing against players who are 2600 and above but is fantastic against 2300 and below, as it locks the center. The top 10 openings are so covered its fun to watch players wonder what the heck I'm doing. Have a look at a board with those first 5 moves. The knight is ANCHORED. I recommend trying it. Feel free to look at any of my games as Whitr and you'll see it.
@vegan_cannibal said in #9:
> As white I only play the Mason Attack: Pawn D4 ,pawn E3 Pawn F4, I then get my knight onto E6 and Fiancetto my bishop. This is unsound playing against players who are 2600 and above but is fantastic against 2300 and below, as it locks the center. The top 10 openings are so covered its fun to watch players wonder what the heck I'm doing. Have a look at a board with those first 5 moves. The knight is ANCHORED. I recommend trying it. Feel free to look at any of my games as Whitr and you'll see it.
what about players between 2300 and 2600

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