What was your first Opening?

@BorisOspasky - to be honest, at your level or mine I'd be a bit suspicious of the idea of "style", too, at least as being some sort of natural, unchangeable feature of your personality. It's like, at some point you think you're a positional player who doesn't have much of an attacking instinct, then you spend a month or so grinding tactics and studying Morphy games and you gain some rating points and suddenly you realize that compared to the people you're now playing you're a tactical player who gets a bit lost in quiet positions and endgames. Then you work your way methodically through Stean, Silman, Hellsten, Pachmann etc while not really keeping up your tactics and you're a positional player again.

Re first opening - probably the Italian Game, the old-fashioned version with a quick c3 d4. I remember that as a kid I was only really interested in full-on romantic gambits and weird hypermodern stuff that I didn't understand at all. Anything that smacked of normal, boring, positionally sensible chess - Ruy Lopez, QGD, any Sicilian apart from the Dragon - was rubbish, and beneath contempt.

I do occasionally wonder whether I'd actually have been pretty decent at chess if I'd had a coach to bang my head against a wall every couple of weeks and remind me that I wasn't actually as clever as I thought I was...

I was doing the Colle System without knowing it

Italian Game. I still play it today, albeit without hanging pieces (as often).

For Black I remember playing a lot of e5 stuff (and falling for the Qh5 Bc4 stuff quite often).

Before i studied chess properly,the setup 1.a4 2.Ra3 3.h4 4.Rh3 5.Rad3 6.Rhe3 and i always lost my rooks because of that.Later on,when i have studied chess,Giuoco Pianissimo is my first opening and the only opening that i have studied in-depth and every other opening i have learned and learning are revolve around the Giuoco

I thought it would be wayward queen attack for everyone...

The italian game

e4 :D

The Four Knights game.

As a kid, I played 1 a4 or 1 h4 a lot (or 1 .. a5/1.. h5) as black.

First opening I learned the name of was probably the Italian Game (or rather the Giucco Piano, but that name is not used a lot here).