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Both of them have potential to be aggressive or positional... One can't generalize in chess! For instance, I have played sharp games with 1.d4 and dull ones with 1.e4 so... One can't say what the character of the game is going to be like from the very first move...
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Adam Bozon tried that anyway and analyzed 500000 games:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/stats.htm
The results are showing Whites and Blacks best and worst openings in relation to games won and lost. The Queens Gambit is on rank 1 for White, the English Opening and the King's Indian Attack are on rank 2.
It's the strength of the players of course which affects the ending of a game, but I found this statistics nevertheless very interesting.
Martin
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Ah! But statistics can be misleading. How do you know that the opening was the guilty partner in the loses or wins? The game of chess has three phases opening, middlegame, and endgame and therefore a loss can happen in any of them. I tend to be suspicious of statistics for these reasons and try to play something that I understand.
Alopinto
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Pardon, but according to my cook books 1.Nf3 is Reti opening (A04 Reti opening). However after 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 we have A07 Reti: King's Indian attack (Barcza system), that I suppose Timinator is referring to. I do not think Reti's opening is considered a good way for White to gain initiative but certainly is a little spice to the opening repertoir.
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| Pardon, but according to my cook books 1.Nf3 is Reti opening (A04 Reti opening). However after 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 we have A07 Reti: King's Indian attack (Barcza system)... |
Unfortunately we have a case of transpositions and opening subtleties to which very few cookbooks devote time and energy to explain the clueless chefs around the world. As an example:
1.Nf3 is A04 in the ECO or the Reti opening for more verbally inclined people 1...d5 is A06 and remains being the Reti opening OK? 2.g3 is A07 the Reti King's Indian Attack 2...Nf6 we are still at the A07 3.d4 and now we are at D02 or the lame Queen's pawn game 3...g6 4.c4 Bg7 5.Nc3 and we have a D90 or Gruenfeld...
So, the recipes are there in the cookbooks but don't even for a second believe that you are cooking a nice steak with mashed potatoes because you may end up with catfish and hushpuppies...
This happened to me yesterday... I thought I was navigating through the Scotch opening only to end up studying positions of the Philidor...
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