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| 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!
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
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.
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This is just the image. Now for a game with the Ruy Lopez!
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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!!
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1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6
3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6
5.Nc3 a6 6.f3 e6
7.Be3 b5 8.Qd2 Nbd7
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20.fxe6 Nc3 21.exf7+
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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.
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about an exchange of
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diminishes the interest of
the game
4...Qxd1+ 5.Kxd1 Nc6
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Bxc4 15.Rxc4 OO
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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.
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10.Qxf3 OO 11.dxe5
Bxe5 12.Ne4 Qh4
c4 25.Bd1 Nd5
26.Nxd5 Rxd5 27.Qxc4
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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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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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30.Qxc8+ Rxc8+
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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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1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 c5
3.Bg2 Nc6 4.OO e5
5.c4 d4 6.d3 Bd6
Ng6 11.Re1 OO
12.Qc2 Re8 13.b3 h6
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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.
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1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6
3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7
5.e3 d6 6.Nge2 Nge7
7.d4 exd4 8.exd4 OO
9.OO 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.
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is_this_alot
6 days ago
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Yashmantri123
12 days ago
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
LessQuen
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yszhxq
2 weeks ago
wow
JQX07
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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.
infinityblade
4 weeks ago
4 weeks ago
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
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
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dimokaila123
8 weeks ago
For me 4 pawns attack and Taimanov Variation of the modern benoni are the most
powerful openings
jparr1
2 months ago
Hago4
2 months ago
senkoditrust
3 months ago
mr.mmmmmmmm27
what is the name of that opening ?
tell me
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