2025 September Opening of the Month Community Vote

[crisp zinc]

Opening of the Month is our community vote survey to pick a winner among varied openings choices. The top choice after the deadline each month will be featured in our weekly Rapid Opening Roulette events and our monthly Official Thematic Daily Chess tournaments for the subsequent month.

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 Official Thematic Daily Chess tournaments are one of our monthly competitions in the daily/correspondence format, spread across multiple rating ranges per each tournament category. Thematic tournaments are set to start midway through the 2nd half of each month, featuring the top voted opening across Chess.com + Discord community votes.

Submissions close in 3 days so be sure to cast your vote by then, and happy chessing!

[pine tide]

Four knights game because… horses

[remote basin]

Amm

[untold orbit]

Evens gambit better

[dawn topaz]

if its 4 knights i might actually play

[dry burrow]

Four knights + e4 = Attack helicopter

[shadow hollow]

WOW AMAZ1NG POLL!! CLICK [[here]] TO [[die]]

[dry burrow]

That's so not [[PIPIS]]

[barren valley]

I've only really ever played the center game so that's what I've voted for

[dry burrow]

Valid reasoning

[shadow hollow]

[pipis]?????? WHERE?? TELL ME [right now, Michael.]

[dry burrow]

It's down there in that [[Tower of big hole]], trust

[shadow hollow]

THANK YOU!!! I SHALL
HAVE
TO
AWARD Y0U
W1TH

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[zinc nest]

where's the egg opening?

[shadow hollow]

YES WHERE IS THE EGG[[hard boiled, scrambled,]][[buy now]]

[zinc nest]

very [$4.99]

[shadow hollow]

THANK YOU!!! CLICK [here] TO DIE

[zinc nest]

randomly combust

[shadow hollow]

OH MY KROMER HE CLICKED THE [[link in description]] I FINALLY [[what have I done, Morty.... Why...]]

[clever veldt]

Not the 4 knights 😭

[latent pendant]

bong cloud

[viral echo]

Reti opening my beloved

[pine kindle]

https://tenor.com/view/machikane-tannhauser-matikane-tannhauser-uma-musume-mambo-gif-25040810

HorSe

[late flax]

Nah I’d reti opening

[old carbon]

I bet everyone who voted 4 knights game is either a gigachad or a <500 elo player

[sinful forge]

Real.

[exotic adder]

four knights cause after Nd5 you can win (90% win rate)

[cedar hearth]

lmao

[signal fable]

@crisp zinc

[pine kindle]

it's fun and it has hoRSes man !