I would say that your friends are right and don't worry about preparing openings. If you are serious about building an opening, then I can only suggest a series of articles.
http://www.chess.com/article/view/typical-chess-mistakes
http://www.chess.com/article/view/must-know-openings
http://www.chess.com/article/view/must-know-middlegame
http://www.chess.com/article/view/must-know-endgames
Best and easy opening repoteri for black??
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@fanxiong thanks once again for spending your valuable time and helping me out.
Jun 7, 2013
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I would suggest you focusing more on opening concepts at this time. Stake your claim of the center. Gain enough space to manouver your pieces. This is not the time to start playing openings that lead to cramped positions and you lash out when they overextend. Instead, answer 1.e4 with 1...e5, 1.d4 with 1...d5, and make that your strongpoint.
For example: 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 (Attack loose e-pawn) Nc6 (Protect pawn) 3.Bb5 (Attack Protector) a6 (Attack the Bishop that's threatening my knight as I have time for this now since if he takes my knight, and then tries to take the pawn on e5, I get it back with ...Qd4, forking the Knight and pawn, and he can't save both), etc.
1.d4 d5 2.c4 (attack strongpoint) e6 (Protect Strongpoint) 3.Nc3 (Attack Strongpoint) Nf6 (Protect strongpoint) 4.Bg5 (Pin one of those guarding d5) Be7 (Unpin), etc.
Don't be trying to learn 20 moves of Ruy Lopez or 20 moves of Queen's Gambit. Your opponent will be out of book way before that. That's why it's more critical to understand the concepts at your level rather than the theory. Use your conceptual knowledge to take advantage when your opponents make a bad move in the opening.
Control the center, develop your pieces, castle, connect your rooks. This is what you need to do in the opening stage. Different openings are just different ways to achieve this goal. Your opponent will be out of book on move 5, do not waste your time with it.
Play e5 for e4, d5 for d4, and just play logical developing moves, knights usually go to f3/f6 c3/c6, bishops are usually go to c4/c5 or g4/g5 f4/f5 b4/b5. You do not need to know opening lines to make good moves. Opening theory is based on chess strategy, if you know strategy, you can pass the opening stage. It is the easiest stage of the game, do not deal with it on your level.
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Hi friends I am karthik I love playing chess I am going to play my first fide tournament BELOW 1600 next month. And I need help on how to practice as far as now I am strong in white with colle zukertot opening and I realy don't have an opening repoteri for black my friends suggest that. for below 1600 rated tournament opening preparation is not much needed and tactical practice is only needed but to play good tactical middle game I need to get into a good position with good opening for black.
suggest me simple opening repoteri for black which is less time consuming and easy to learn and also please suggest me good books to learn those opening!! :-):-) friends I am
waiting for your valuable suggestions