Quite recently, I've been troubled with my opening choices. I often play the queen's gambit, but it feels so repetitive and boring. Everytime I play it, I either get crushed or the opponent made some mistakes and I win the game. I prefer playing black because I find comfort in the Nf6 scandi for e4 while playing the Slav Defense for d4. Can anyone help?
"I either get crushed or the opponent made some mistakes and I win the game." <- You just described almost every patzer (sub 2200) game, no matter the opening choosed :-)
Have you tried this? Play other moves, accept your losses, learn from your mistakes, and see what takes your fancy. Play the King's Gambit and hurl your pieces at your opponent. Some losses won't kill you, and the experience will at least expand your horizons.
at you level focus more on improving your chess ( tactics strategy etc...) you aren't losing using a opening countless top grandmasters use...
I agree with King's gambit, it's pretty fun and lots of variations to be played. I usually go for it with white if it's been too long since anyone have accepted my invitation to play some kind of gambit. It's also pretty fun to randomly at some point in a game play a wing-gambit (pushing the B-pawn with no backup into a bishop, so that you can gain a tempo and misplace his bishop), even though it isn't a very exciting one with lots of strange lines, you just gain a tempo for a pawn, that's kind of it.
I should maybe point out that I don't play the King's Gambit as white, and I think I've ever only played it once, in a casual OTB game with no clock. But, in part because of this, I always keep it in mind as an option in case I get really bored with my openings and want to try something new.
Zooming out a bit, your problem seems to be that you find your white openings "boring and repetitive" but you value the "comfort" of your black openings. You are stuck because you have conflicting goals. If you want new and interesting things, then you have to be willing to accept the momentary discomfort of being in an unusual situation. The trick is to forget about names and classifications of openings, and "styles" and other such fluff, and let yourself be distracted by the thought process of finding good moves. That's part of what makes chess fun, right?
Playing the sicillian is pretty fun as it opens up lot of lines in the opening
I agree with what @biscuitfiend allthough I think it's pretty good to know the mainline in any opening you decide to play and have fun trying to solve the situation when your opponent does something you didn't expect.
This is a pretty good resource if you want ideas for what to play. He doesn't go deep into the different openings, just shows you the main idea behind it.
https://www.youtube.com/user/thechesswebsite
I play1:e4 2:nf3 3:bb5 4: d3, 5:nf3. That would change depending on my opponents move. Hope this is helpful
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