Should i use the same opening in every game?

Hi i mostly use king's gambit when playing as white..Should I try variety of openings or just stick to one....Your suggestions please.

Yes=You should ceate a style

I will also like to hear some advice because I always play queen's gambit with white and french defence with black (whenever possible).

Thanks plavin and vampirechamp for ur views

At your rating level, stick with one opening for at least a year.  You have alot to learn and openings are at the bottom of the priorities to be spending your time.

I agree with cdowis75 about using 1 or 2 openings for a long period of time. However, the suggestion of 1 year is one that was originally made when people could only play OTB. Now, with the ability to play several of games PER DAY, it won't take as long to learn the ins and outs of the openings.

Please see forum topic,

Opening book with good explenation

I say yes, because it's better to be very good at one opening than to know a little about a lot of openings. And at tournaments you play mostly new people who don't know what you are going to do.

But when it does, the payoff puts a big smile on your face.

Isn't there a proper name for using the KID as white?

Kings Indian Attack

Oh, obviously, of course.

For serious games, having a well understood opening repertoire is desirable.  And in order to help develop understanding, it is better to have a narrow opening repertoire.  Understanding comes from, amongst other things, studying typical middlegames for the given opening.  It stands to reason that having fewer such middlegames to study will allow you to study each one in more depth, and hence play them better.

The above is result focused in the short to medium term.  However, for the longer term development of your general chess, it may not be optimal.  Real chess improvement involves the ability to play a wider variety of positions.  Try playing with an isolated pawn; or against it; with/against hanging pawns; sharp attacking play versus slow positional play; various endgames; etc.  In this respect, there is a danger of blindly playing the same old opening again and again while starting to just go through the motions and thinking less about chess.  Imagine catching out an opponent in opening preparation - good from a results point of view but doesn’t do much in terms of challenging and growing your chess ability.

So, I agree with the approach of playing a narrow opening repertoire for a certain amount of months.  I won’t get hung up on how many months exactly but rather just knowing that I should break my comfort zone at some point in order to develop my general chess ability.  Or maybe have a fixed repertoire for serious games but play other openings for less serious games.

I remember a comment about GM Polugaevsky who specialised in the Sicilian Defence.  It was said that his chess was hampered to some degree by not experiencing lessons of the Ruy Lopez.  But this is not to say that players shouldn’t recognise their strengths and play to them.  Fischer had a relatively fixed and narrow opening repertoire but still displayed an understanding of other openings (e.g. Benoni and Nimzo-Indian in his WC match with Spassky).

With white I always play e4 and try for King's Gambit, but with black I guess I play like 10 openings  French, Alekhine, Sicilian, Ruy Lopez and many more  I guess because when I am white black decides where to go after e4.

How do you play the Ruy Lopez as black?

I read somewhere that if you want to learn openings you should play the same opening for a year then switch to another. That's supposed to give you a good understanding of an opening and its various lines. Playing it for a year also makes sure you remember it better than just studying an opening for a month or so and moving on.

I also read (Same place? Somewhere else? I have no idea.) that beginners should choose one opening for white and two for black, one for king's pawn openings and one for queen's pawn openings.

The one year thing is outdated. The rest seems about right though.

My stategy is to learn one opening as white and black answers on d4 and e4 first.

I try to play these openings in OTB -tournaments if I can.

But I also try to learn some more openingplay. This gives me a larger general foundation for ideas. Today I started with an opening I am not trained in in an onlinegame, because I need to understand whats going on when the game goes on unknown paths.

A lot like me I guess.

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