What's your guy's favorite openings?

I like Vienna :)

i like Wayward queen Wayward queen This is an aggressive opening move that violates an opening principle by bringing the queen out early. So long as Black doesn't fall into White's traps, they will be able to develop easily and play useful moves that gain time on White's queen. 2. Qh5 both attacks the pawn on e5 and puts pressure on f7. The f7 square is the weakest point in Black's position at the start of the game, because it is the only square guarded only by Black's king. White's usual plan is to follow with Bc4 and deal a swift, knock-out blow with Qxf7#, e.g. 2...Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6?? 4. Qxf7#. This is called Scholar's mate or the four-move checkmate. Defend e5 As f7 is attacked once (by White's queen) and defended once (by Black's king), there is no immediate threat of Qxf7+. However, there is a threat of Qxe5+. 2...Nc6 is the best move. Black defends against Qxe5+, while also getting to develop a piece to its most active square. The game usually continues 3. Bc4 (bringing a second attacker to f7, so now White really is threatening Qxf7#) g6 (cuts off White's queen's vision of f7, and gains time by forcing the queen to move again) 4. Qf3 (threatens Qxf7# again) Nf6 (blocks White's queen's vision of f7). The immediate threats parried, Black is ready to play ...Bg7 and ...O-O. Other options to defend e5 are playable but come with trade-offs. 2...d6 defends e5, but neglects the opportunity to develop a piece. It also means that if Black wants to play ...d5 later, they will have lost a tempo by taking two moves to play d5 instead of one (d7 to d6 to d5 versus d7 to d5). 2...Qf6 defends both e5 and f7, but violating opening principles yourself is no way to punish your opponent's violations of the same. The queen misplaced on f6 prevents Black's knight from coming there, which it should like to do. If the idea is to trade off queens to end the attack (3. Bc4 g6 4. Qf3 Qxf3 5. Nxf3), Black is giving White's attack too much credit. 2...Qe7, looks unnatural but is probably fine. Gambit e5 Black may try 2...Nf6, called the Kiddie countergambit. Black attacks the queen, forcing it to move, but leaves their e-pawn undefended. This is a pawn sacrifice: Black allows White to take the free pawn and instead focuses on developing their pieces. Every time Black gets to play a developing move and White has to move their queen again, Black scores a little victory in the form of tempo. After 3. Qxe5+ Be7 4. Nf3 (say) Nc6 (forces queen to move again) 5. Qf4 O-O= Black has castled and developed three of their minor pieces as compensation for the lost pawn, and White has largely spent the time moving the same piece around. Bad moves 2...g6?? is a rookie error. Black attacks the queen and leaves their e-pawn undefended, but moving the g-pawn exposed Black's rook on h8: 3. Qxe5+ Be7 (or 3...Qe7) 4. Qxh8+-. 2...Ke7?? is the worst move in the position, 3. Qxe5# is checkmate. History 2. Qh5!? is a staple of amateur chess, played against beginners who may be expected to blunder under early pressure. It has a huge number of names, including patzer's opening (patzer, from German patzen, being a poor chess player), which might mean it is only played against novices or by novices. In fact it has seen use by grandmasters as a non-theoretical opening, played not with the expectation that Black will blunder mate in the opening but the understanding that, once Black has parried the first few threats, White still gets a playable position that is about equal. Among its highest-level outings was Magnus Carlsen at the 2018 World Rapid Championship. The origin of Danvers, per Winter, has been traced to a 1908 anecdote about a sanatorium: "Dr E.E. Southard, who was the Harvard College champion for a number of years and who is now a specialist on mental diseases at the Danvers Insane Hospital, tried to explain how his acquaintance with chessplayers assisted him in his profession and why he named his pet début the Danvers Opening, which consists of P-K4 and Q-R5 as White’s first and second moves." Parnham comes from Bernard Parnham (1946―2024), who was a National Master from Indiana who had many original ideas about how chess should be played and the relative values of different pieces. He advocated early queen moves in several lines, including 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5.