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So no, unless your opponent plays particularly passively, you are not going to get such structure in any opening. The structure resembles some Kings Indian structures, but with reversed colors. …

That's why, if you are assigning an opening to a game you would normally go backwards and base it on the last known theoretical position in that game. …

Beginners often overestimate the importance of opening theory. … It is much more likely that you lose for other reasons than lack of opening repertoire. …

A sharp and sound opening would be one that is so far analyzed that you can claim to lead to more or less equal position. Many sharp openings tend to be drawish if players know what they are doing. …

I used to play such as white before I got educated... Well, it is not that bad and on the plus you don't need to learn much or any theory. There are two possible responses from black which I found q …

I used to spend little time on studying opening theory and almost exclusively played the Kings Indian Attack for which you need to know virtually nothing. Playing the KID as black also helped. … Since there is an awful lot of opening theory to learn I chose a step by step approach: learning some openings in reasonable depth. …

In your example the game was basically played on the kingside only as your "pawn storm" did not get beyond the 5th rank. With or without pawn storm white would not really want to put pieces on the que …

White wants to avoid doubled c-pawns and all of the moves you mention, Qc2, Qd3, Nxe4 and Bd2 achieve this. As you note, Nxe4, exchanging knights tends to be drawish, so is not what most white player …

Two-three moves like that hardly constitute an "opening". It could help if you told us what kind of set up white tries to achieve in the center (e.g. which of the central pawns are moved.) … If you have a favourite black opening against say d4 or e4 you might be able to follow it. …

Chess engines are currently not able to give you a good analysis of opening moves all by themselves. This is basically due to the huge number of possible variations during the opening phase. …

The difference is that after Bxc6 you win a pawn with Nxe5. That's why the computer gives a +1 evaluation for it. After Ba4 you end up with just an equal, normal position. So it is rather the differ …

Obviously black has violated principles such as: don't move a piece twice develop pieces However opening principles are just general guidelines and in very concrete positions like the one at hand they … There are many established openings where opening principles are broken, so nothing wrong with that. In the final position it is white's move, however the knight on f3 is attacked and has to move. …

The opening is called King's Gambit and is usually reached with a slightly different move order after 1.e4 e5 2.f4.... … Arguing with general opening principals is not really meaningful here, because the opening is very concrete/tactical. …

To answer your question: Experience has shown that it is a good idea in the opening phase of the game to: develop minor pieces (bishop/knight) quickly and to occupy the centre (squares e4, d4, e5, d5 …

If we are talking about the kings pawn opening, i.e. any opening that starts with 1. e4, there is little to say besides: white aims to occupy the center with a pawn on e4 white makes space for the development … Really I'd struggle to call a single move like 1. e4 an "opening". …