can anyone teach me some openings

can anyone teach me some good openings? usually i do whatever when I play chess with my friends, but i always lose. Can anyone tell me some openings that they usually do? four move checkmates would also be nice :)

how bout the kings gambit 1.e4 e5 2.f4

or the the fried liver attack  1e4 e5 2Bc4 Nc6 3. Nf3  Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5exd5 nxd5 6  Nxf7 a legitimate sacrifice of the knight to get an attack on his king

The Creepy Crawly Formation!

1. h3 e5

2. a3 d5

Play for white usually continues with c4 (sacrifice), followed by e3 and then a finechetto of the king side Bishop. Truly the bestest opening ever :D

really though i love this opening lets give this guy something mainstream like the hyper accelerated dragon of the sicilian deffence

Aww...but couldn't we at least throw in the Hippo? It does technically have an entire book devoted to it. xD

http://www.jeremysilman.com/book_reviews_jd/jd_hippo_rises.html

yeah lets throw the dog a bone and show him another totaly useful opening for either losing or for laughing at those who are below him the bongcloud

And just what is wrong with the mighty Bongcloud?

nothing its fun to play sometimes

For black I like the Russian defence.  e4 e5  Nf3 Nf6  If Nxe5 d6  if you immediately take white's pawn you will get caught in an opening trap.

To follow up on post no.3, this opening really should do the trick. I honestly don't see anything wrong with it. Hypermodern vs. Classical is the way I see it.

Ok... I am not a very good player. But I am an opening dilletente, and have dabbled with most of them, so I'll take a crack at it.

For white, just play 1.e4. Learn the first three or four moves for one of the 1.e4 45 openings (the main three would be the Ruy Lopez, the Italian, or my favorite, the Scotch). You can search the openings book for those and get the lines. But don't go too deep, just get the first few.

Probably need an anti Sicillian as well (1. e4 c5). I like the Alapin or the Closed Sicillian myself. Again, check the opening book.

That should do you fine for 85% of your games as white. Eventually, you will need to learn a line for the French, and maybe the Caro. Don't worry about the Scandinavian, its easy.

Now, for black, you need a response to 1. e4 and 1. d4.

For 1. e4, I will list the major ones, and the characteristics of each...

1. e4 e5 (this leads to what are called the open games, the Ruy Lopez, the Italian game, the Scotch, etc.) Good for a beginner, as they focus more on tactics than on slow positional play. Most people would reccomend you master these first.

1. e4 c5 (the aforementioned Sicillian Defense. This is kind of considered the Cadillac of chess openings. There are dozens of variations, gambits, and anti-sicillian lines here. I would advise you stay away until later in your chess career.)

1. e4 e6 (The French Defense. This is my favorite, so I am biased. It has a reputation for being boring. I disagree. The point of the French is to allow white to create a pawn center, then counterattack it and desroy it. If white is cooperative, it can lead to some of the sharpest lines in chess. One nice thing about it is that most people hate to play the French, so they suck at it.

There are others. The caro-kann, the Scandinavian, and various gambits.

Now, d4... d4 is tricky. I have yet to really settle on a favorite here myself. But, some of the main ones are...

1. d4 d5 (this generally leads to the Queen's Gambit, and its Slav and Semi Slav cousins. This is a slow positional tactical quagmire i've never really delved into much.

1. d4 Nf6 (The Indian Defenses. There is the King's Indian, the Nimzo Indian, the Queen's Indian, the Bogo, and the Gruenfeld. These are hypermodern openings that dictate central control through piece play. That means that if you screw up, things get ugly in a hurry.)

1. d4 f5 (The Dutch. Sets up a kingside attack. Leaves the King a bit open for my taste.)

Anyway, as you can see, this gets complicated, particularly since you always have to keep in mind that your opponent has a large say in the matter as well. And one thing can transpose into something else frequently.

Anyway, just start off simple. Feel free to experiment with different things. This is supposed to be fun right?

e4!!!!!  The remainder of the game is left as an excercise for the student. 

I think that seriously, it is a matter of taste, and that if you follow the basic opening principles, 99 times out of 100, you have a playable middlegame.   You did ask for suggestions however, so I'll give you what I personally like as white.  e4, and the italian headed for a fried liver/traxler if he'll let me against e5, the advance against french and caro-kann, and a delayed alapin against most sicilians.  Against anything else, good solid intuitive play works just fine.

Actualy, this line of Fried Liver seems to be defused with 11...Qh4!.

Please see last finished Bishop vs. Knight game for details.

http://www.chess.com/votechess/game.html?id=18138

P.S. and black doesnt need to play Nxd5, he can just play good old Na5(or b5, or Nd4).

If you have no time/will to learn openings, then you could try the Hippo or some other systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus_Defence

(free e-book for hippo):

http://www.beginnersgame.com/

Other systems:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_Attack

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colle-Zukertort_System

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Indian_Attack

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I'm going to say something that's already been said before: Go with e4 as white. Even as somebody who usually plays d4 (now) I think it is a good place to start.

As Fezzik said, develop your pieces. Nf3 is usually a good second move, for what it's worth. 

And as echecks06 said, as black pick an opening or two and stick with it. The suggestions of e5 and e6 are good against e4. Against d4, I dunno what you should learn first. My inclination would be d5, but I'm not sure.

thanks people for giving me such great suggestions, especially Flamma_Aquila, for giving me so much openings. Also, as first mentioned, some four-move checkmates would be nice

lol

If you want to learn chess openings, you may have to read some real boring books!

and still you wouldnt learn:)

just use your kidney;)