Beginner Opening,Gambits and more

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Queen's gambit accepted/declined, Sicilian, Caro, English system, but I recommend Ponziani most

Ponziani is just 2 knights then Pc3 then bust open the centre

after watching this video, and training with it, I am so in love with the Englund Hartlaub/Charlick Gambit!

I've searched for an anti-1.d4 system EXACTLY like this for decades! it has an open center (more like a reverse 1.e4 game than closed!!!!!! YAY!), is SUPER MOBILE, the basic ideas covered in the video are MOSTLY easy to remember (except the queen sac to mate line) and mix and match in one's own games punishing white tactically instead of him punishing you positionally.

it just fits me like a glove! I have a 2:1 record with it even! very poisonous and white never knows what to do without cracking under pressure or blundering. I've even had COMFOTRTABLE games where I've had to give one idea up, retreat and regroup on another target... it's very tactical and flexible like smith morra gambit, but even more vicious when accepted by the unwary.

instant clicking, minimal study, trouble only in the sidelines, and if your opponent plays 2.c4, 2...d5 transposes to the albin counter gambit which is ALSO super tactical, but without needing a fianchetto based (hate those!) repertoire to go with it. IT is the side line in EHG.

haters want to talk trash about the 2 points down and blah blah

"WHAT IF someone ACTUALLY plays the best response? you should quit playing chess FOREVER if .005% of your games go there! your 2:1 win record is ONLY HOLDING YOUR RATING BACK and STOP HAVING SO MUCH FUN!!" *WAH WAH WAH*

goering has better stats than scotch and danish has slightly better stats still

when you say "beginner" i'm guessing you mean under 1500. i play these at 1700 (ELSEWHERE!) and in the main lines, opponents get crushed. I actually started playing the 3.Be3!? mieses gambit in the carokann by accident and saw instant 2:1ish stats there too just playing Bxf7+ to break every Bg4 pin black tries to get away with before or after Nf6 and using initiative to crush them from there. they aren't used to a bishop on c4 I think and haven't experienced Bxf7+s yet to keep an eye out and maybe play e6.

this is "the perfect mieses" as I see it

this one concept will get you through MOST of your games. that semi-open f file is PRIME MEAT for attacking f7 too king's gambit/BDG style after you castle and activate your rook having neutered your opponents' one

blackmar diemer gambit (i play the 3.f3 gedult BDG as I do worse with the 3.Nc3 main line everyone else wins with via the scandinavian move order ) isn't the EASIEST gambit to learn, but if you add it to that similar themed mieses and its cousin the french alapin diemer gambit... you come as close to a "1 system for 3 openings line" as you can get playing 1.e4 which is the choice of gambit lovers USUALLY. the concepts in those lines transfer to even harder to master king's gambit, but having already been a KG player, it was easier for me to adopt THOSE Nf3/Bc4/semi-open f file systems. I live to attack f7 before an opponent can say "uh-oh! (0-0)... get it?

If you're really talking "beginner", where your opponents will have almost no book learning, then the Queen's Gambit is terrific. Why? Because it isn't a real gambit and opponents who try too hard to hold the pawn will get themselves into deep trouble.

Like this ancient miniature by Greco:

I don't play queen's gambit, but when I was at a chess club where some snotty 1700 answered my (1400s) question as to WHY no one would play me... "most players don't want to play lower rated players" (said condescendingly)

then he says "OK, i'll play you" and insists it's on the clock which i had never done, except online AUTOMATICALLY

we get into a game where I was probably trying to stonewall attack and for some reason I played c4. then, i threw my bishop at a check, traded, followed up with my queen where my opponent tried to block with b5, but the pawn I had on c5 took it en passent and re-established my check to trade queens and after taking his b7 pawn, his hemmed in rook became my queen and i finished him off in something like 14 moves.

he demands a rematch...

"well, maybe I don't want to play someone i can beat in 14 moves" (HAHAHAHAHA!!!)

JERK makes a move when I'm not looking and acts stupid until my clock runs out talking about how it's my job to memorize the board & blah blah blah. Oh it's my turn to steam now...

so, in the tie breaker, the fire alarm goes off in the middle of our game where I think he was up a minor piece and then he starts demanding I resign. "over your dead body cheater!!!"

even when the firemen were clearing the building, I assured him, "they're going to have to pull me off this board or your ### before I ####ing resign! you ain't getting a free ride! you want to win this, you're going to have to earn it" eventually COWARD tipped to save his skin.

I've played a chess game TO THE DEATH! (i'm an anti-phobic)

i really CAN call myself gik-tally!

That's quite the story 1983B-Boy. Thanks for sharing!

I rarely get the excuse.