yes, I really think you should. relatively easy openings to learn would be the French against e4 and Queen's Gambit Declined against d4. of course "learning an opening" doesn't mean that you should learn complex lines that are 20 moves deep, but you should definitely learn the basic ideas of these openings and the standard moves (this will probably take less than 2 hours per opening) middle games are much more essential at your level, but a good opening ist still important.
thank you all for the responses and yes I am very turned away from the Sicilain defense due to its complexity and the fact as white when I face it, it is never a fun game to review from either side. So what I have taken away from this, and somebody correct me if they believe what I am doing is incorrect, but the french and queens gambit declined depending on which opening white chooses so understand the concepts of them, what their overall goal is. The first few moves will be consistent but I should focus my time on the mid game after the first 4,5,6 moves. Any other feedback is great and if you happen to know (which im sure you chess experts do know) what is the overall goal of the french defense I am going to go do some research on it but any tips are great from the community. Thank you all<3
please provide a game to prove I am wrong
Sure, everybody has ABILITIES in different areas. Some are going to be able to learn chess faster than others simply because the algorithms in their brain's neural network are more efficient at indexing geometrical-spacial information. The other person might be brilliant with language and communication. We ARE all different. And you can learn whatever you want to learn about regarding chess, but if you are trying to improve as fast as possible rating-wise, most chess games under 2000 are decided by tactics, so getting a perfect opening isn't going to help you win a game if you are likely going to blunder a couple of pawns 3 moves into the middlegame. Tactics are the critical moment of the game, that one moment that likely decided who wins and who loses. Tactics are just patterns. And the more complete your database of patterns is in chess, the quicker you will be able to learn an opening anyway. A player who is 2000 strength tactics will be able to learn an opening in much less time than a player who is 1200 strength in tactics because the 2000 will be able to use chunking of known patterns to quickly account for all the variations while a 1200 will be unfamiliar with all of the tactics and will have to do more memorizing than actual learning.