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Top 10 most powerful openings. monsterking
| Jul 26, 2011 at 12:41 AM | Posted in: monsterking | 2196891 reads | 197 comments
Welcome back everybody. This post will be explaining the top 10 best openings in chess history!
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Number 10. The Ruy Lopez. Perhaps the greatest most complex openings out there. I respect this opening as it was proven that if white plays the lines correctly, he will carry a small
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advantage. Its also a great opening since it explains develop and castle early and build a attack. This opening was invented sometime in the 1400 by someone who had a name called Ruy lopez. 8
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Number 9. Sicilian defense. One of the most highly used complex and annoying defenses you will ever find. Almost every player of all rankings use this. This opening is highly successful for black and to think that this opening was once considered bad! This opening was discovered and analyzed in 1604 extending to the early 1800s. People realized this opening went to bad to dubious to ok to good to great! Even though I hate running into this defense MAY THE THIS DEFENSE LIVE ON IN THE HISTORY OF CHESS!! 8
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Jon Viktor Gunnarsson (2404) vs. Sigurbjorn Bjornsson (2297) ch‐ISL | Strandgotu ISL | Round 6 | 5 Sep 2001 | ECO: B90 | 0‐1 8
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Number 8. The queens gambit! This opening is no doubt one of the most common openings in d4 d5 games. White sacrifices a pawn for rapid development and usually gets his pawn back! This opening has a very old history going back to 1490 (probably even older) and its mentioned in a very old script called Gottingen manuscript. One of the oldest chess scripts of all. 8
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La Bourdonnais (?) vs. Alexander McDonnell (?) London | London | Round 10 | 1834 | ECO: D20 | 1‐0 8
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Number 7! The Alekhine defence. Obviously it was invented by Alekhine in 1921. A opening which leads to many transpositions. I highly respect it and when I was first playing on chess.com I highly relied on this opening and I was successful with it. 8
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Donogan / E Muller (?) vs. Alekhine / Zimmerman (?) Zurich consult | Zurich consult | 1921 | ECO: B02 | 0‐1 8
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Number 6. The modern defence. This defence is related to the Pirc and can lead transpositions. Used by grandmasters from time to time and is a highly respected opening. It can turn into the kings indian defence from time to time.
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Kurban Khanov (?) vs. Jacob Yuchtman (?) URS‐ch sf | Sverdlovsk | Round 16 | 1957 | ECO: A42 | 0‐1 1. e4 d6 2. d4 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 e5 5. Nge2 Nf6 6. f3 c5 7. dxc5 dxc5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Bg5 h6 10. O‐O‐O+ Bd7 11. Bh4 Nc6 12. Nd5 g5 13. Bf2 Nxd5 14. exd5 Nd4 15. Ng3 f5 16. Bd3 Rf8 17. h4 gxh4 18. Nh5 Bh8 19. Bxh4+ Ke8 20. Rdf1 Kf7 21. g4 f4 22. Be4 b5 23. cxb5 Bxb5 24. Re1 a5 25. d6 Bc6 26. Bxc6 Nxc6 27. Rd1 Ke6 28. d7 Nd4 29. d8=Q Raxd8
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Number 5. The Kings indian defence! This has got to be one of my favorite repertories against d4 as black. This is one of the most oldest openings in history. The origin seems unknown but not its play! This hyper modern opening shows everything about hyper modern play. Its the best example of the hyper modern play.Interesting style of the bishop and developed knight and castled king. One of the best chess openings in history.
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Friedrich Saemisch (?) vs. Richard Reti (?) 3, Teplitz‐Schonau it GER | 3, Teplitz‐Schonau it GER | 1922 | ECO: E60 | 0‐1 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O‐O 5. e4 d6 6. h3 e5 7. d5 h6 8. Be3 Kh7 9. Be2 Ng8 10. g4 f5 11. gxf5 gxf5 12. exf5 Bxf5 13. Qd2 Nd7 14. h4 Ne7 15. h5 Nf6 16. Nh4 Nfg8 17. O‐O‐O Rf7 18. Rdg1 Bd7 19. Bd3+ Nf5 20. Ne4 Nge7 21. Ng3 c6 22. Qc2 Qc8 23. Ng6 Kg8 24. Nxe7+ Nxe7 25. Ne4 Nf5 26. Rg6 cxd5 27. cxd5 Nxe3 28. fxe3 Bf5 29. Nxd6 Bxd3
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Number 4. Kings indian attack! Also known as KIA, the kings indian attack is one of the most famous chess openings in man kind. Possibly originating from the Kings indian defence, it has been considered also hyper modern like the kings indian defence but with a extra tempo. Most openings with black that are turned into white openings are highly respected because of extra tempo.
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Jose Raul Capablanca (?) vs. David Janowski (?) New York | 15 | 1924 | ECO: A08 | 1‐0 8
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Number 3. The English opening! This is basically a revered Sicilian defence with extra tempo. It can also lead to crazy transpositions. Usually in the English from my experience with it, its nothing different than the Sicilian defence except an extra tempo and more ideas to do with it. Still, a great opening and may this live on.
Mikhail Botvinnik (?) vs. Samuel Reshevsky (?) Netherlands | It, Amsterdam | 1938 | ECO: A25 | 1‐0
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Top 10 most powerful openings. Chess.com 1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. e3 d6 6. Nge2 Nge7 7. d4 exd4 8. exd4 O‐O 9. O‐O Nf5 10. d5 Ne5 11. b3 a5 12. Bb2 Nd7 13. a3 Nc5 14. b4 Nd7 15. Qb3 Nd4 16. Nxd4 Bxd4 17. Rad1 Bg7 18. Rfe1 axb4 19. axb4 Nf6 20. h3 h5 21. c5 Bf5 22. Nb5 Bd7 23. c6 bxc6 24. dxc6 Bc8 25. Nxd6 Be6 26. Rxe6 fxe6 27. Nf5 Qe8 28. Nxg7 Kxg7 29. Rd7+ Rf7 30. Be5 Kg8
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Number 2. The Dutch defence!! This has to be one of the most aggressive responses towards d4. This can turn into crazy tactical wild complicated and difficult positions. It looks ugly since black is exposing his weakness on the diagonal. But usually its not that bad and when you castle, you have a good rook on the F file.
And finally number 1!! The great king of all openings, The STONEWALL ATTACK!!! BUM BUM BUM BUM BUM!!! This is my favorite opening of all time. In fact without this opening, I probably wouldnt have gotten to 2000s with this. I have studied this opening for almost a year now with people and the greatest chess software out there. It is a great opening and sadly isnt as wide spread like it once was. No repertoires have been discovered so far to I guess you can say consider this opening bad when in fact world champions have played it before and some still do. I love this closed in stone like built system and I just wish it was analyzed and widespread more often. I have rarely lost playing this system. This system can get so locked and closed, that even
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the mightiest chess computers have a hard time playing against it. My grampa CRUSHED fritz with it and drew rybka playing the stonewall a few times. The strongest grandmasters even agree that the stonewall attack is a formidable opening. A have personally talked to some and even some grandmasters that dont like it agreed that playing against the stonewall is hard no matter who it is. If the person can play it correctly, its gonna be a hard game. This opening is truly the king of the chess openings. Its like a lion in chess. King of the beasts. King of the openings.
Harry Nelson Pillsbury (?) vs. James Moore Hanham (?) 8, New York | 8, New York | 1893 | ECO: D00 | 1‐0 1. d4 d5 2. e3 e6 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. f4 Bd6 5. Nf3 b6 6. O‐O O‐O 7. c3 c5 8. Ne5 Qc7 9. Nd2 Nc6 10. Rf3 Bb7 11. Rh3 cxd4 12. Bxh7+ Nxh7 13. Qh5 Rfe8 14. Qxh7+ Kf8 15. exd4 f6 16. Ng6+ Kf7 17. Rg3 Rg8 18. Nf3 Ne7 19. Nfh4 Nxg6 20. Nxg6 Ba6 21. Bd2 Qc4 22. Re1 Qxa2 23. Nh8+ Kf8 24. Qg6 Rxh8 25. Qxg7+ Ke8 26. Rxe6+ Kd8 27. Rxd6+ Kc8 28. Rc6+ Kd8 29. Qc7+ Ke8 30. Re6+ Kf8 31. Qg7#
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Here are my words on this number 1 opening! "The Stonewall attack is the king of chess openings. The most perfect system in chess and if played properly by any one, they are bound to win however, this would make chess seem cheap." Let all of these 10 great openings still be played on forever and ever and ever. These 10 openings created chess. Let the game go on...
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Yashmantri123
12 days ago
i'd go for kings indian attack
b2bmarketing
12 days ago
Ok, I tried my move from 4 posts ago against the computer on this website. I got my butt kicked routinely, lol. I did win once, but the computer sets up one of the aforementioned pawn defenses and then sits back and picks off pieces that have no where to move but into bad positions. In my defense, at least being aggressive in your opening moves slows up the development of the oppositions great wall of China! crushing37
2 weeks ago
FYI: trap in evans gambit i used to play it until I found a trap. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. b4 Bb6 5. a4 Nd4 6. Nxe5 Qg5 7. Nxf7 Qxg2 8. Rf1 Qxe4+ 9. Be2 ( 9. Qe2 Nxe2 10. Bxe2 )
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is stone wall bad iwanna try it
yszhxq
2 weeks ago
wow
JQX07
2 weeks ago
the stonewall is not gooooood!!!!!
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shubham1230123
2 weeks ago
I think queens gambit is best opening in chess!!!really it is suitable for all beginners masters club players and all titled players(specially super grandmasters) THIS OPENING IS BEST FOR ALL b2bmarketing
3 weeks ago
I'm a noobie, and 'm basically playing Microsoft Chess against the computer. I developed an opening move based on the strengths and weaknesses of the pieces on the board. I don't see it in the top moves? It seems so obvious. Can someone tell me why that is since it almost always guarantees a win against the computer? Basically, the best piece to take in an opening if you are white is the C7 pawn. If you take it with your knight, you check the black king and then capture the rook on that side. I feel, next to the queen, the rook is the next most dangerous piece. You start by moving your white queen's pawn out 2 spaces, then your queen's knight out to in front of the bishop, then your queens bishop out in front of your other bishop to backup the attack on the weak pawn you are trying to capture. Sometimes the computer tries to stop you by advancing a pawn to take your queens knight when you move it to the final kill position. In that event you just move another pawn up to take the defending pawn out. If your queen's knight makes it to B5 with your Queen's bishop on f4, when you take the black C7 pawn with your knight and check their king, they either move their king and you get their rook, or they take you with their queen and you capture their queen with your protecting bishop. Why isn't this move in the top 10? All the counter moves attempting to stop it prevent the computer from setting up any kind of adequate defense. And once their rook is gone, that whole back alley is defenseless against your queen. Vinnes
3 weeks ago
Just play and go with the flow, that's the best opening.
infinity‐blade
4 weeks ago
same, stonewall is the BEST I got all my games in state tournament just using that opening, so ya...in ur face people that dont like it... JQX07
4 weeks ago
Queens gambit is number 1 not the stonewall
frjel80
6 weeks ago
Stonewall helped me to reach 1500 from 1200. but once I reached 1600, stonewall just doesn't work anymore. Most of the players rated above 1600 know the stonewall and its weaknesses. Harish73
6 weeks ago
Not me. I did not agree to him. Please read my post
Asroy
6 weeks ago
This guy is a goddamn idiot. He made a horibble list. Get your facts starifht you stupid mororn. And all the Indians here, are idiots for agreeing with him. Walless50
7 weeks ago
Stonewall is good in the long run but appears weak
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8 weeks ago
For me 4 pawns attack and Taimanov Variation of the modern benoni are the most powerful openings jparr1
2 months ago
Ruy Lopez,will try to study all 10
Hago4
2 months ago
MY FAVORITE IS THE EVANS GAMBIT
senkoditrust
3 months ago
mr.mmmmmmmm27 what is the name of that opening ? tell me
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