What's the worst chess opening in your opinion? 🤔

Just considering the openings that people play regularly... (because there are tons of stupid openings but they're not even worth thinking about)

- the scotch is trash

- the caro-kann isn't bad but it's very overrated by the people who play it, it just seems to inspire fanboyism for reasons unknown... there are like 10 different ways black can get in a total mess, and it's entirely up to white which direction he wants to go

- after studying some Scandi theory / playing a good number of Scandi games I'm back to my opinion that the Scandi really just sucks. theorizing aside, the games just feel very easy to play as white once you know what you're doing.

- the Pirc with g6 is complete trash.. I don't understand why you'd play this over the modern.

- the dragon is honestly not great, very easy formulaic response from white and white just gets a good position every time

- the sveshnikov is also overrated at club level, the line is too theoretical and the king ends up in a dubious position, it works at GM level but people are losing alot of games here at club level

- the london is dog crap... it can be improved somewhat with transposition, but the mainline london is just so boring I could not stand playing this. And black has like 4 different ways of basically neutralizing the game... White should aspire to more.

- the benoni is dog diahrrea

- the englund is dog vomit

- the smith morra is dog roadkill run over repeatedly by 18 wheelers

Although I'd be less vehement about the Scotch (I confess to disliking meeting it as Black) and the Centre Counter (I played it for years in the 1980s) than @ibrust I pretty much agree. In particular, the Englund both sucks and blows at the same time. I studied it back when I was some good at this game. Even bought Smith and Hall's book on it. And found it was utter dog's mess if White avoids a couple of famous traps. For information, my bar is quite low on these things: I played the Elephant Gambit for a whole season and occasionally go doolally and essay 1...,g5. But worst? Worst of all? I nominate the King's Gambit Accepted variant known (if I remember aright) as the "Orchard Gambit". 1. e4, e5; 2. f4, ef; 3. b3 [no, that's not a typo]. Pointless. Simply pointless. Waste of a potentially decent position.

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