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| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#26 Nice explanation! It seems to me that nowadays the top 20 are 1. e4 players. Take Karjakin, Anand, Caruana, Michael Adams, Nepo, Svidler, for example. They are always the contestants in tourneys. And … | souzamoraes  |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#23 Yeah, I saw him saying this on an interview. Only in dreams would Fischer say this. | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#21 Yeah, I totaly agree with you guys. But it's very interesting to see Anand winning games in the candidates and now in the Tal Memorial playing 1.e4 (which he has played his entire life). What about Bo… | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#16 KingCrusher has an excellent video that says something about this "Why play main lines?" Why would somebody learn everything about Ruy Lopez nowadays to meet the Marshall gambit? Is it because they on… | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#15 But, at the same time, it's a little funny to play d4, because it's an opening that closes the game and makes it a little easier. If it gets easier and also with lots of play for white, why do GM like… | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#14 By the way, thank you guys for participating on this nice debate. | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#13 I liked what Jan Brown said a lot. But is 1.e4 really te safest approach nowadays? On the candidates this year, many guys like Karjakin, Svidler and Caruana (who plays e4) were trying somethink with t… | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#4 If with d4 we have more strategy, why do we have so many GMs playing e4, which is so tactical and counterplayable? | souzamoraes |
| General Chess Discussion - e4 or d4?#1 I've been a 1500 - 1600 blitz player for some time. I always wonder what's better for me to study as a favorite opening: e4 or d4. I suddenly realized that d4 is way easier to learn about and that any… | souzamoraes |