Hello.

I know a beginner shouldn't bring alot of attention to opening variations and stuff but I just want to choose a few openings that suits me best. So, I've got some questions and I hope you can help me. Here it goes:

1. After 1. c4 e5, what is the simpliest and most effective continuation as white?

2. After 1. e4 c5, what is the best continuation for white? Is 2. Nf3 good?

3. After 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 [any move but a6], how should white continue?

4. What opening would you offer so that white had chances to attack via the diagonals (B + B, B + Q, B + B + Q), especially white square; king side?

5. Any opening as white in which c-pawn wouldn't suffer from block from knight on c3? (except english)

EDIT: 6. After 1. e4 e6 is Nf3 promising? I don't like getting into 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 as in most of games I played it, the position gets very tied up.

I would really appreciate comments with games as examples (maybe even with annotation)

Thanks in advance!

Castle or push the d pawn, for the Ruy Lopez. I don't know anything about the English

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3. I agree with dlordmagic

4. I don't really know any but this

Ok, this is how I shouldn't play but how should I continue after 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 [Nc6/e6/d6]? What can I hope out of it?

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 (cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6).

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 (cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6).

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 (cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6).

These are the main lines for the 3 openings you ask for. As you can see, 2. Nf3 is played with the idea of initiating d4 as soon as possible.

After e4 e6 (the French) d4 is definetely the main move, but you said it ties your position up (I assume by this you means you get a closed position). I don't know anything about Nf3. However, there's an interesting move I play occasionally in blitz games instead of d4: Qe2. It blocks the Bishop but if they play d5 then exd5 Qxd5 Nc3 and you gain some time back attacking the Queen. This leads to somewhat more open games. Against moves other than d5, I just develop naturally (at least as naturally as possible with a Queen on e2). By the way, the point of Qe2 is so they can't take on d5 with the e-pawn because it's pinned. I don't really know whether it's very good or not, just telling you about its existence. By the way, the main problem I know about is that they can play c5 and transpose into an e6 Sicilian (the Sicilian is e4 c5) where White has played an odd Queen move instead of the normal Nf3.

Well for the first one Nf3.

Second one Bc4.

Dude, you have chess opening database od this address:

http://www.shredderchess.com/online-chess/online-databases/opening-database.html

Below it shows what is the common and what is the most efficient move in openings. You can learn something about openings there.