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Analyzing my Black Openings, What Should I Learn?

Isn't that quiz bogus though? I took it once and got genius I think, this time I got technician (suggests white english, black sicilian, semislav, petrov)
If youre looking for strong opening repertuare i suggest using stable and evergreen openings that dont come and go out of fashion or where people dont find some great attacking chances or tactics where this opening is becoming from dubious to bad.

The most stable openings in chess probably are:

Ruy Lopez
Sicilian defense
Queens Gambit
1.d4 d5 as black
1.e4 e5 as black.

A little less stable or ambitious for white, but still top openings at the moment.

English Opening
Grunfeld
Nimzo-Indian/Bogo Indian

Openings that are playable and good at high level(up to international master maybe), but probably not stable at top level at the moment(but can be used as surprise weapon at top level), but was considered strong few decades ago:

Italian game
Reti system
Kings Indian Attack
Scotch Game and Scotch Gambit
Queens Pawn Openings
Catalan Opening

Kings Indian Defence
Pirc and Modern Defence
French Defense
Petrov/Russian game
Queens Indian Defence
Caro-Kann Defence
Scandinavian Defence
Alekhines Defence
Benoni

Openings that are not stable and are good only until rating 2200-2300(National master-Fide master) and later against those openings its too easy to prepare or opponents just might know what to do against that.

Kings gambit.
Philidor's Defence
1.b2-b4 Polish opening/Orangutang
Vienna Game
Bishops Opening
Latvian Gambit
3/4 Knights opening
Ponziani Opening
Birds Opening
So in comparison it depends on what you want to achieve and what time control you wanna play? If you want to achieve international master level sometime in your life then:

Queens gambit and italian game(two knigts) are good
You shold change kings gambit and bishops opening.

If you want to just get to 2000-2200 fide elo then you can play whatever you want as long as you know the opening well.

That is for classical time controls 30m+30second incriment, 60+30incriment or 90+30 (usual international fide classical tournament time control) or even 90+30 with extra 60 minutes after move 40.

If you want to play rapid 12+5 or 15+3 or such time controls then you can also play more dubious openings, but still better to keep at this list.

If you want to play only blitz and excel in only blitz and never touch classic in your life, opening choise probably doesnt matter at all. Just keep getting new ideas and learn them, switch your openings around and find weird gambit lines that are totally unstable or even completely incorrect. In blitz your opponents probably wont find the right continuation anyway:)
But i must warn you - you will never be strong player, possibly even not pass the 2100 rating mark in your life if you play only blitz.
Also if you you most stable opening and know it well enough for your level you should always get a good position, no matter what opponent does and you also learn to more strategy and learn that even in seemingly solid lines there can be a lot of tactics. Basically you learn the game better from solid openings.
OMG kabacis, that was a real long essay about openings stability for different rating ranges. Would be interesting to know what's your source is, or is it your own opinions.

I'm thinking of Queen Pawn openings and Catalan as very rigid positional and stable openings that also are played at GM level.
@blackzombie, yes it is my opinion. However i didnt just figure it out on the spot, i've been working on things like this for some while, maybe 2 years. I've have tryed different setups with 1.d4 and 1.e4 for white, Queens pawn openings(Zukertort system), Catalan a little, gambit lines, until i figured out that best for me would be scotch game(with occasional scotch gambit) for white, pirc defence and kings indian defence for black. I've been playing this setup for 1.5-2 years now i think and i gotta say, while they are atractive, dynamic and interesting, lot of strong players give me a bad position very quickly in all of both kings indian and pirc defence, about 2 months ago i played an IM in a few blitz games and he said that pirc defence is not good(because its unstable, many positional ideas are very strong against that and more could come, basically there are too many ways to try and make problems for black) and in kings indian i really gotta know my stuff, but usually white get the advantage, if their calculating ability for attack on my king is good enough, they usually break throu in queenside and all my pieces are just generally bad, so im banking everything on simple king attack, which might not work at all. In some other lines kings indian defence can be played in middle if center opens but then also black are not that comfortable, you can get a good game and i have often got it, but thats because white made mistake, not because opening is good. If you outsmart your opponent you can get a devastating position or if he does then youre dead basiaclly, thats not what i call a stable opening:P

And with scotch game - white just have too little plans, in a lot of my games black just pushes d7-d5(after b pawn went to c6 in knight exchange), we exchange ed cd and he has center pawn when i have none. I know that its kinda about piece play, but he has like no weaknesses at all. So more often then not black easily equalize.

So i decided to change now and was doing research on popular openings and why they are good, what i wrote is result of that. I'm sorry that i write so much, this is just the way i am, many people dont like it i know and i'm learning to write less, but atm thats the way it is.

About your opinion - Queens pawn openings(with c2-c3 instead of c2-c4) are usually okey, but they dont pose big problems for black, so they can equalize easily and sometimes try to break you right in the opening with some interesting lines, althou their attack usually dont work i dont want to be the one to defend until my piece coordination is perfect and i can start attacking. So for white of course queens pawn is stable, but theyre not as ambitious and middle game should be very equal, i cant see white getting advantage in any queens pawn opening(without c2-c4).

Catalan is good try yes. And it really is good opening, but again, while you are developing bishop to g2 youre giving a tempo for black, from my expirience (1-2months when i tryed catalan), black takes center control rather easily and while i sometimes have tactics on the long diognal, more often then not its a equal game or opponent gets edge because i misplayed something i think heh:D I just dont feel the pressure and possibility to create problems for black in catalan, only pressure is tactics on the long diognal and queenside play with my pawns, but black gets everything else - center, development, kingside attack sometimes or at least opening on the h-file which render my queenside attack not as good if he tryes to exchange my bishop and change rooks on h-file.

So i dont exacly know the statistics, but from what i've seen in super tournaments most often is Ruy lopez, Queens gambit, Grunfeld, Sicilian and sometimes few surprise weapons like Italian game or Pirc defence, but i havent seen any 2700+ GM play catalan or queens pawn on regular basis. Correct me if i'm wrong thou, its just an opinion, not a solid fact:P
@kabacis #17
You are wrong there indeed :-)

GM Giri and GM van Wely and some more dutch GMs added the Catalan opening to their repertoire (in 2015?), and have been playing it in various games.
That is not very surprising since the Catalan opening is a very solid and strong choice for white, and GM Sosonko (also a dutch GM) has been playing it basically all of his life with good successes.
Interesting. Could in the same category fall french defence, caro-kann and russian/petrov? I would assess them as strongest of my 3rd tier openings. If that it really so then i must modify my list a little. There might be some other minor discrepencies on the bottom side as well but in any case this list was supposed to be a guideline, its not exacly scientific one. I believe the idea in general is correct would you say?
@kabacis #19
I am not sure such "strong" opinions on openings are mandatory for choosing and maintaining an opening repertoire.

Better to play opening lines that are not very unsound, but with which you feel comfortable and happy, and giving you good enough results.

Focusing on endgame improvement will most likely pay off later in your personal chess career.

And even in GM level there's no need to for example only play Ruy Lopez Berlin lines.
Today in the Dutch individualchampionship, GM Reinderman played Budapest gambit with black and drew with it ! :)

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