CHESS: I have been playing the Colle for years, but would like to learn a new opening. Any suggestions?

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!… Non-Cre8tive Name is a total plagiarist. he totally copied the first section of his answer from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colle_System look at the third paragraph of that page, he simply put the last sentence first and changed grandmaster to master but was too lazy to change the rest. i didnt check the rest of his or her answer but i bet it was plagiarized too. im not gonna report u Non-Cre8tive Name, but thats kinda lame oh yea, play the queen's gambit, most played in the last couple world championships. :)

I recommend the Chuck Norris opening. It's a little complicated but involves smashing the board over your opponent's head until he resigns. I am 5-0-1 while playing it. In the game I drew, it was actually against Chuck Norris. He also opened with the Chuck Norris opening.

If you dislike pawn weaknesses, then in the Reti opening you can avoid this because white is very flexible. However it doesn't have clear attack lines and is not considered aggressive. It's a more positional opening. I therefore suggest Larsen's Opening 1.b3. It really cuts down the workload of learning a new opening. Another, more aggressive, option is Bird's opening 1.f4. In most cases white just tries to attack on the kingside. It's rare enough that you are bound to know it more than your opponent.

Find one you think is interesting, then, watch a few games of masters using it, then start using it yourself. You don't need to memorize EVERY SINGLE MOVE in response to ALL OTHER MOVES. Just know the first few, watch how masters use it, the way they play in the game, is it kingside queen side, middle of the board kind of game. Do they build up their pieces in a particular manner to facilitate certain ideals. Then formulate your own and then there you go. You can play almost any opening you want but your personal chess level will make it only as effective of a player as you are.

If you're looking for something more aggressive and don't want to go straight with the Queen's Gambit, then perhaps the Torre Attack or in general the systems with Bg5. It's a question of what you're really looking for. You say that you find the Colle drawish over 2000 but really I'm guessing that when you plug these drawn games into a computer program for analysis you still find missed opportunities. Change is good though. The Torre wouldn't require too much preparation. (BTW, if you play the Colle past 2000 level, I assume that you're already familiar with the b3 idea.)

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I enjoy the Scotch opening. It is quite fun to play. The queens gambit can also be fun.

Ah, dynamic, but not messy. That is not so easy. If you play the Colle just to play d4 with the idea to hang on to the d4 square, you will find not many openings are like that. If you play the queens gambit, 1.d4 and 2.c4, the centre may become dissolved sooner. While there is nothing wrong with that, it is probably not what you want. Of course you can play 1.e4. Black cannot undermine e4 so easily. You just defend with the d3 pawn or you advance to e5. That way the centre stays intact and it is not so easy for black to arrange the f6 break. In other words, you either play a typical 1.e4 e5 opening, or you transpose into a King's Indian attack type position. If black plays a Sicilian, you can still play this setup or a closed Sicilian, which is very similar. Either way the centre is going to stay alive for a while, which seems to be what you want. You may have to arrange the break d4 to get some counter play though. That is if it was an 1.e4 e5 opening. Another idea is 1.f4. Nobody knows that anyway. The black break e5 takes time to arrange, or black has to give up a pawn. So, with white you can hang on to the strong point e5 for a long time, like it was a Colle. Then you work towards the break d3 and e4 to gain the initiative. If you don't like that, you can just lock the game with d4, entering a reversed Stonewall. This will of course not give white much of an edge, but it is very solid and it closes the centre for a long time, much like the Colle. If you get comfortable with these positions, you might want to move to more lively positions at some point. If you always play the same type positions, you will get stuck in them. GL