5 Solid Openings/Defenses For Beginners

I believe beginners should focus on open games and even gambits, learning tactical playing and development importance.

sicilian defense is pretty simple

Get your rooks connected by move 10. This rule forces you to develop all your pieces. You can't castle and connect your rooks until all your pieces are out of the back rank. Do it in 10 moves and everybody is already on the battlefield ready for war.

Play a few games on chess.com and you will know how you are rated, ratings don't really mater excpt for you to mesure your improvements and know what leval of article would be most helpful.

I'm 10 years

My rating in chess.com is 1340

Sicilian for beginners?

Thanks Alot !

I don't object at all to what you've posted, except to note that other than the Spanish (which itself has tons of variations) these are barely openings. Actually, 1. d4 Nf6 isn't an opening at all in itself. Not even slightly, especially since it can transpose to pretty much any defense to 1. d4 (including QGA, QGD, Slav) except for the Dutch and English Defense. What you did was give recommendations for the first move. 

I'm of the opinion that players trying to improve can play whatever opening they want. It's not necessary to start with 1. e4 or meet 1. e4 with 1...e5 to improve at a low level, in spite of what a lot of people have said. There's no intrinsic value in learning the open games first IMO.

Hi!

Openings that I love for getting pretty closed games are 1.d4 when I play white (I find it defensive and simplifying since the pawn advances protected at the very begin of the game) and e4 d6 which prepares king for early castle after east indian defense almost whatever white plays.

Really good one.ill have to give atry

Thank you! Great advice

I am finding it really helpful to be able to tell square colors blindfold and also to train locating squares with no lettering on the board.  It really helps me to read a passage in "chessese".

This gives a benefit regardless of the opening or anything else, and it isn't that hard to do.  Try out ChessEye and the Training Tool on chess.com 

I think the best response for Black is 1...e5.

Thank you for your advice on openings. I really appreciate the fact that you explained the ideas behind each opening in real, actual, clear language instead of just listing variation after variation, each one 10 moves deep. Endless analysis is useless to me; I want the ideas behind the openings. Thank you again!

Playing d4 is for advanced players like 1800 , and you mention it in a beginner's article.

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The following articles relating to choosing an opening repertoire are interesting and informative...

http://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/aa02i07.htm

http://grandpatzerchess.blogspot.com/2007/03/openings-for-improving-players-part-1.html

http://grandpatzerchess.blogspot.com/2007/03/openings-for-improving-players-part-2.html

http://grandpatzerchess.blogspot.com/2007/03/openings-for-improving-players-part-3.html

Here are some opening repertoire suggestions by GM Nigel Davies and IM Andrew Martin:

Martin's repertoire...(click the icons with downward pointing arrows to download the pgn files)...

http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/repert.htm

Davies' repertoire...

http://www.chesspublishing.com/content/repert2.htm

For the beginner-novice I particularly recommend Vincent Moret's two recent opening repertoire books (for White and for Black) - featuring fun, aggressive openings/defenses to play, plus you will learn how to play good chess as the books are exceptionally instructive...

You might also like to check out some of the openings repertoire books in (towards the end) the following list...

Good Chess Openings Books for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/good-chess-openings-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

A book to guide in the considerations involved in choosing your openings - the title says it all...

How to Build Your Chess Opening Repertoire  by Steve Giddins.

Check out this article: http://chesswinning.com/10-best-chess-openings/

London System is the best opening. You basically start a desicive kingside attack in every game. It's unstoppable.