an ordinary chessplayer wrote on 05/08/19 at 04:25:35:
Your "laziness" is misplaced -- you want to save the effort at home, but it will cost you at the board. Instead of struggling to equalize with your black openings, take the extra tempo and the easy equality it gives to white.
+9999999
Playing a generic system against everything has strong disadvantages. You have to prepare well against each one of black setups and, all this time, is basically lost time.
Playing d4 is
much more forcing than the reversed old indian/philidor scheme you mention. Yes, you have to know a line against KID, another against benoni, ... but only one line and you can choose which line and use it over and over until you decide to replace it.
You will be making black's life very very easy, particularly stronger players will enjoy your decision, being able to check at chessbase the exact line they want to play with you in 5 minutes.
On the long run - perhaps not so long - most likely, given you will not get very good results, you will have to switch your opening line to a more ambicious alternative.
Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts.
I'm not looking for shortcuts. I'm just looking for validation if white can reliably get rid of a tempo here, because I'm unaware of there being other openings where this is possible.
I've played d4 and c4 as white for 20 years, and played the Ruy Lopez and Slav as black for the last 10 years. No one needs to sell me on the virtues of playing classical chess.