How to play for a win with White without fighting for an opening advantage I know that there are practical methods of playing for a win with White without bothering with an opening advantage. In Kasparov's multivolume work on his predecessors Bent Larsen is described as someone who excelled at building complex playable positions without attention to opening advantage. It was enough for him that the position held enough complexity to make for a hard battle.

Presumably, this kind of playing is easier than fighting for an advantage. My question is about the reason why opening books focus only on finding an advantage for white rather than make life simipler for the reader and show how to obtain a good promising position with equal chances using the White pieces as a means of forcing one's will.

In my earlier question in this vein there was a lot of controversy over the value of winning versus drawing, which I find amazing because people don't seem to value draw as an outcome of a game of chess. So here I ask a similar question that is focused on winning rather than drawing but without fighting for the so called opening advantage. Compare
Advice on how to draw with White
One way to play for a win without seeking an opening advantage is to play a system opening. In this answer, I recommended the English Botvinnik System to a player struggling against the Sicilian.

A system opening is where one player develops their pieces to the same squares and has similar plans available no matter what their opponent does.

System openings have the advantage of saving you clock time and giving you a position that you are familiar with, hence allowing you to play for a win.

The problem with system openings is that they ignore the opponent's play and you tend to play with a mind that is half closed. That is, you may miss interesting moves that take advantage of an opponent's mistakes. This is why system openings are not objectively 'the best', i.e. they don't give a theoretical opening advantage.