It skirts all dangers, and trousers the full point.

Smyslov_Fan wrote on 08/05/11 at 13:23:38:


Dear Smyslov_Fan, would you be so kind to fill this gap in my chess knowledge - what is that??

I have a friend who's a master. He's made it a point of playing every legal first move in a rated tournament game.  Ok, he chooses which openings to play against specific opponents, but I like his courage.

In blitz, I've played all sorts of openings. In tournament and correspondence chess, I don't know.  I'm curious to see what Stefan Buecker would say. I doubt I'd ever play the Latvian, even in blitz. Nevermind.... I have played it in training games. Hmmmm.....   

Other than that, I need to think about it some more.

Petrov as Black, Exchange Variation of the Slav with either colour.
Of course also the Grob as White.

Budapest - 101 ways for white to get better ending

Any kind of scotch gambit/max lange attack etc. where black is better if he knows what he is doing

Pirc - 101 setups for whtie, all dangerous and black don't have clear way to equalize in neither

King's gambit - black is better

Basically no opening which leads to inferior position if opponent know the theory and no which leads to unpleasant ending out of the opening (even if it's drawable).