Which opening should be featured in February for the Rapid Opening Roulette?

[scenic jacinth]

The Rapid Opening Roulette is a weekly Chess.com Community club arena happening every Monday, featuring a different opening position every month. The time control is 10+0 rapid, games are unrated. To participate you must have played at least five games on Chess.com.

The featured opening for February will be decided by community vote. Submissions close <t:1738278000:R> so make sure to submit your vote and join the club if you haven't already in order to play!

[exotic nymph]

ok

[thin atlas]

Hi

[fathom relic]

Bird

Idk what these all arr

[steep sage]

please chat, let's get a réti

[fathom relic]

Are

But the birds

[astral briar]

kings Indian boring asf

[trail kite]

Birb

[fathom relic]

Birds are cute

[wide violet]

Definitely bird

[ionic dirge]

no Boncloud or Cow dang

[severe thistle]

Polska gurom🔥

[wide violet]

🐦

🐦

[lapis light]

Kings Indian

[fathom relic]

I have fed the birds in my yard like

[severe thistle]

Polish

[cerulean ivy]

idk what the nitrogen lauren apt thingy is

[trail kite]

All hail bird

[hazy shoal]

real

[fathom relic]

400 pounds of seed since May this year

[slow ledge]

🤤

[cerulean ivy]

i just voted it becusse it has the least votes

[wide violet]

Pick bird like Larry Bird

[fathom relic]

I love them so much they are my outdoor babies ♥️

[silk musk]

Birb

[severe thistle]

Polish 🔥

[fathom relic]

Bird bird bird bird is the word

[wide violet]

Biiiiiiiiirrrrrd

[valid crag]

I am reti to learn

[fathom relic]

I am polish but I want bird

[hazy shoal]

bi ib bi bird

[wide violet]

Pick the bird like Larry Bird

[slow ledge]

fire near my house, fking hate California

[amber cargo]

kings indian oh yeaaaaaaaa

[fathom relic]

Yo I'm on the couch

After the gym

[main hound]

nimzo larsen bruh

[fathom relic]

And shower

And tacos

And

I'm in blankets

Low-key feels amazing

Actually no

High-key

There's nothing low-key about this

To summarize

Bird.

[slow ledge]

bro doesn’t matter because at the end of the day we all will die and nothing will really matter.

[fathom relic]

I bet you felt so edgy typing that out 😭😂

[safe sandal]

other than the afterlife

[silk wharf]

Which doesn’t exist

[fathom relic]

Yes that too

Aight man

[silk wharf]

Or is there just no such thing as fiction

Everything ever conceived is magically real

[fathom relic]

Why are you guys such downers

[slow ledge]

the only truth we know is death after that we don’t know

[silk wharf]

Downers?

It’s good that the suffering ends

[slow ledge]

real

[fathom relic]

I am not engaging in this

[silk wharf]

Literally the only good thing

[safe sandal]

ok then do whatever you want in life theres no reason not to believe in God

You dont lose anything from no believing in God if God doesnt exist but if he does and you dont believe in him than you lose everything

[slow ledge]

from chess to death the conversation is going somewhere

[fathom relic]

.

[wind knoll]

guys our math teacher almost killed a student and he went to jail

[potent sluice]

crazy

[fathom relic]

Tea

[silk wharf]

I would gain nothing from believing

[slow ledge]

skill issue

[safe sandal]

you would gain alot

[wind knoll]

fr

[silk wharf]

I would lose any credibility when claiming to be moral though

If I believed

And worshipped

[fathom relic]

If he tells the full story @ me I wanna read it

I'ma dip tho

[safe sandal]

not fully true

[slow ledge]

tell me more

[safe sandal]

ok can we agree there is one true religion

[slow ledge]

which religion?

[safe sandal]

well my point isnt to preach my religion im just asking

do you believe there is a correct one

[mortal bolt]

Surely religion talk is banned

[scenic jacinth]

guys let's keep it topical please and avoid religion discussion, feel free to suggest other openings if you'd like to see them in the future as well (:

[safe sandal]

didnt know that

[slow ledge]

nope but everyone is leading to existence of an higher power and something is out there that humans can never physically, mentally and spiritually reach, atleast for now though

[safe sandal]

i sent you a friend reuquest

so they dont ban us

[slow ledge]

lol yeah my bad guys

I accepted

[scenic jacinth]

tysm guys

[soft grove]

no saragossa opening??? blasphemy/

[fiery flame]

No French Defense??

[soft grove]

irrelevant

doesnt mattere

[fiery flame]

To your eye pal

[soft grove]

shouldnt even be in chess.

[fiery flame]

If you don't like doesn't mean others shouldn't

[soft grove]

the only move that should be done in chess is

1.c3

[scenic jacinth]

all suggestions are welcome (:
we've had the french mid last year so probably will be some time before having it again (:

[soft grove]

1st move, 1 c3.

2nd move, 1 c3.

3rd move, 1 c3.

literally peak chess

[dim glen]

I’m 20 elo

[dire scaffold]

WHY ME ONLY CAN'T CLICK

[rigid sable]

Caro Kann is the only correct answer

[dim badge]

Ding liren wants to know your location

And Anish giri too

[soft grove]

caro kann is a wannabe saragossa

[near socket]

Bongcloud when?

[proven otter]

eeeee

[dense heath]

english opening when

[blazing elbow]

y'all need to learn about the polish opening. 1.b4, aka the orangutan. it's fantastic

I got my first ever OTB tournament win with it

[winter grail]

Baby orangutan bettet b3

[vague crescent]

Fr

[vapid chasm]

Réti bc nobody below 1600 knows the Main line

[silk wharf]

King's indian is boring af

[restive pier]

bird would be funny

[short ingot]

French defence!

(winawer variation) 🙂

[short ingot]

Fr

[short ingot]

Noooo

[robust seal]

Where is London!?!?!

[scarlet acorn]

what is rapid opening roulette? Is it smth like russian roulette?

[brazen shuttle]

Aye

Kings indian is boring, its playable but reti is pretty much just a normal game

[solar crescent]

birds opening is troll so THAT ONE

[scenic jacinth]

#1332121664082939944 message

[candid pollen]

i did scandi but king's indian is GREAT

[balmy aurora]

I personally feel Portuguese Gambit is a better one than all of these.

[main hound]

Portuguese Gambit is kind of bad

[pine kraken]

These basic noobs want KID smh

Yeah I see a lot of people talking about bird. I voted it. It's the only unique one there, would be fun.

[blazing elbow]

bruh -- the Polish is 1.b4

even more unique than the Bird if you ask me

Bird transposes to king's gambit half the time anyway

[main hound]

No it doesn’t

[blazing elbow]

it does when I play black (I play 1.f4 e5)

[solar crescent]

i would time travel to the future and play myself because imma be 5000 elo

lol

[blazing elbow]

I can already play a computer. those are like 3500 elo. and I'm not good enough to tell 3500 from 5000

[dusty current]

none wants kid

[pine kraken]

Polish boring

[pine kraken]

Fr

[balmy aurora]

No it's not even Magnus plays it and I even asked an NM what he thought about it and he says it's good

[balmy aurora]

I'd much rather King's Indian Attack not King's Indian Defence.

In case people aren't aware, King's Indian Attack is a White opening where you play a mirrored version of black's King's Indian setup. And what's great about King's Indian Attack is that unlike King's Indian Defence, King's Indian Attack is a system, so whatever black plays against it doesn't matter; it's still called King's Indian Attack and the gameplay is pretty samey too, and it's the ONLY setup based opening that does NOT lead to a positional play.

[main hound]

It is... positional play

[balmy aurora]

Then why is it called "attack" ._.

[main hound]

attacks can be positional

plus calling an opening "attack" doesnt inherently make it aggressive

[pine kraken]

Tbf it does

[main hound]

The Amazon Attack in the Sicilian is not aggressive lol

[balmy aurora]

Aren't openings like Marshall Attack, Amsterdam Attack, Anti-Torre Attack, Kan Knight Variation Wing Attack, and like, Scandinavian Anderssen Counterattack aggressive though?