Learn the Réti opening

The Réti opening begins after 1. Nf3.

This opening is sometimes referred to as the "Zukertort" Opening. Your opponent has many responses, many of them being 'invitations' to different openings. For example Nc6, will likely transpose into a king's pawn game. We play e5 and after they play e5 I would recommend the Scotch game, which lucky someone made a blog about .

They have the Sicilian Invitation witch c5, if you know the Sicilian, play e4, if you don't, play c4 and learn the English(assume I have a blog on these openings). If they play c6, this is the Slav invitation, learn the Queen's Gambit or the simpler Slav Defense. If they play d6, the Pirc Invitation, learn the King's Indian Set Up. If they play e6, the Queen's Gambit Invitation, learn the Queen's Gambit. If they play f5, learn the Dutch Defense.

If they play e5, this is the Ross gambit. Take their pawn, if they kick your knight with f6, play e3 to play Qh5+. If they play d6 or anything similar, move it back.

If they play d5, this is the mainline, we play c4, the Réti Gambit. If they accept, we will play e3 to win it back. We must do everything to win the pawn back, for example if they play b5, we play a4. If you don't want to go into the complicated e3 line just play Qa4+ to win it back.

If they decline with Nf6, we take their pawn. If the knight takes, play d4 and prepare to nab the center. If the queen takes, play Nc3. If they gambit with c3, accept.

If they play d5, this is a reversed Benoni Defense, and we likely go for some sort of Benko Gambit. In short, you need to learn a crap ton of openings before playing this one. Especially the Benoni Defense! Enjoy this opening, and goodbye.