Looking for a new opening for white.

I'm looking to expand my opening repertoire. I currently play the Scotch a like it but I want to learn how to play a more closed positional game is there a good opening to do this with? Also is this a good idea at all or is it just to hard to understand what I'm doing right and wrong in a closed game with practice alone?

Hi,

try to see Karpovs games ( from either side in Ruy Lopez opening ) to know something about closed openings, not all games will be ideally closed but u will get the feel.

best wishes, 

Play the Ruy Lopez, you can play anti marshall lines, and learn how to play against the other typical Ruy Lopez lines (Chigorin, Breyer, Open) .  I don't know about other people but alot of Ruy Lopez lines for black in closed games almost look like typical King's indian defence games with black going Re8 Bf8 g6 bg7 f5

Alright thanks I shall give it a try. Still not sure if I will actually manage to figure out what is going on in the game though but I guess I shall try.

The Colle 

Scotch gambit

Read up on the Ruy Lopez and learn it; learn the ideas behind it, otherwise you may as well be learning any opening.

There are closed defenses vs the Ruy Lopez as well as open defenses.

So you will have to know how to play against the open defenses.

However after 1. e4  you will also have to know how to respond to

1.  ... c4  1. ...g6  1. ...e6   1. ...Nc3   1.  ... Nf6   1.  ... d5   1. ...c6

1. ...d6   So chess is very hard.

Lost my first game but made at least two really bad blunders so I'm not sure if I blew the opening I don't think I did though as I looked fine.

There's an e4 opening that nobody has discussed yet, that's good against the French and Sicilian.  It's called the E4 King's Indian Attack.  It's not a closed game, but might be an interesting choice.  I also like the Scotch Gambit against e5, if you're a tactical, attacking player.  

If you really want a positional game though, openings with 1. d4 d5 are a better choice.  Queen's Gambit, Colle System, Catalan, etc.

Last time I played QG I got into a really weird although very much won position that was anything but closed perhaps I didn't play it right. As for Scotch Gambit it is a nice way to shake things up from normal Scotch but will hardly teach me about a completely different type of game.

This may sound ridiculours but... If you really like your black repertoire, play 1.a3.  

It works out really well especially if the reversed openings you're playing include the move a2-a3.

For example in the Reversed Najdorf Sicilian, you can gain a tempo.

You'll need to essentially think up 2 replies:

-What you'll do against 1...e5 (essentially 1.e4)

-What you'll do against 1...d5 (more common, essentially 1.d4)

This is what I play:

I play the Reversed French against 1...e5 in which 1.a3 isn't that benfitting but it can sometimes help to have that move already in, in some variations.

Example:

I play the Reversed Benko against 1...d5:

You don't have to play these.  These are just examples of what you could do against 1...e5 or 1...d5.