Best Chess Openings

I am a big fan of Caro Kann with black. For the d4 I tend to play old Indian or Pirc, sometimes the Semi-Slavic. Caro-Kann is really fun to play and in hte endgame the black pawn structure is better. I hate blocking my c8 bishop in openings so the Slavic defence is easier to play for me. With white I hate Ruy Lopez when black answers with Marshall attack - I prefer 3. c3 or Bc4 or d4. Black comes back many times strong in Sicilian so I started to experiment with Alapin defense in order to get black into unfamiliar field, but Keres attack is nice too. 

nah, h5 is the best opening

i call it the.... Stupid opening!!!

it depends on your chess rating, i think.

being more of a correspondence player than

a sharp tactician, i've looked at many Gm books

to make a study of the openings, and summarized

the info, together with new findings, in an E-book:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/jef-kaan/better-chess-openings/ebook/product-21826451.html

suitable for beginners up to 1700 or so i suspect,

look at the preview to get an idea,

paperback is coming later,

jef

nice.

thx, there now also is a kindle version (which is cheaper):

http://www.amazon.com/LEARNING-CHESS-OPENINGS-intermediate-levels-ebook/dp/B00PULUACW

and i'm now in the process of finishing a first the paper version 

jef

Scotch gambit, transposed from a centre game.

One cannot learn chess in a day, nor a week, nor a month, nor a year. Openings are not supposed to be memorized, they are to be learnt from experiences. One must study openings not to memorize it but to understand its strategy and tactics.

I really like the Nakhmanson Gambit, as it's really easy to learn, and you just have so much potential. With perfect play by black, it is a draw though, but they have to play computer moves, and even Stockfish 12 can't beat/draw it! I recently made a video on this, and you can find it right over here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8TAR69EyY 

You could try the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile Gambit