Can anyone recommend any good opening books?

Can anyone recommend any good opening books?

No, I couldnt recommend you any opening book when you dont need one.

But i want one

Oh, then you can waste both your money and time with many books. I like "Starting out, the Sveshnikov"

Wait for my books to come out later this year, "The Bongcloud Attack-WTF variation" and "The Transvestite-Straight Variation". Guaranteed success

It's called....The Queens Battle : )

Instead of buying a book it is better value to join chesspublishing.com. you get all their playable ebooks for every opening, about 30k highly annotated games and the theory evolves over time so is never out of date like a book  

    However if you under around 1800 then probably best to go the book route sticking with more wordy books that properly explain, eiither that or just look at videos etc

MCO

It's aboard game. I wouldn't take up to much time learning. Just have a friend show u. Only takes 5-10 minutes to be able to play the game and play here against people. Ask questions. U sound bright, u'll be fine : )))

 This is about all the opening knowledge you need till you are about 1600ish: http://exeterchessclub.org.uk/content/ten-rules-opening

You can learn 20 moves of some opening from you head (without understanding them) to notice no opponent of your level ever makes it past move 4.

"How to Win in the Chess Openings" by I. A. Horowitz, pub. by Simon and Schuster.

He begins with Principles of Opening Play, then Exceptions to the First Rule. Then he writes about 9 openings; and after each, goes through 1 to 3 short games with commentary after each significant move - specifically about how a move utilizes or violates an opening principle. It's an 'old school' book with old style chess notation. And some old names , e.g. "Giuoco Piano" instead of "Italian Game". His follow-up book, "Modern Ideas in the Chess Openings" is also good, IMOHO. Both are available from alibis.com for $.99 + shipping. You can get some good ideas from these books and then play games and record your moves, so you can go back later and try to see where you erred. And what kind of error was it. I.E. Did I just miss-read a tactical situation and make a silly blunder, or did my doubled pawns actually screw up my middle game?

I recommend you buy these books. You can get a lot "to chew  on" for a couple of bucks.  

I recently joined this web service (chess.com)  and I pulled both my old yellowed copies down off the shelf to review them. Because the last time I played chess was in 1982! 

http://www.alibris.com/How-to-Win-in-the-Chess-Openings-Israel-A-Horowitz/book/3032563?matches=80

For someone seeking help with openings, I usually bring up Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014).
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
I believe that it is possible to see a fair portion of the beginning of Tamburro's book by going to the Mongoose Press site.
https://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf
Perhaps 11dex-11 would also want to look at Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627115737/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen99.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/380.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627105306/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen124.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/926.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/927.pdf

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627070808/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen137.pdf

https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/940.pdf

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Even back in 2008, FM Carsten Hansen felt it appropriate to write that MCO15 "pretends to be up-to-date and relevant in all chapters, but it isn’t".

https://web.archive.org/web/20140626165820/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen110.pdf

"[The encyclopedic presentation of opening theory] uses tables of variations, and alternatives given in footnotes. For new players, I cannot recommend books that use type of presentation, because the explanatory prose that elaborates typical plans and ideas is usually absent, thus leaving the student without any clear idea why certain moves are played or even preferred over other apparently equivalent moves. Another problem is that encyclopedic works are often rather costly and do not get updated as regularly as monographs that concentrate on individual openings. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2010)

Decades ago, I read those books all the way through and I still have fond memories of them. If one doesn't mind the descriptive notation, I would guess that they would be a good place to start for someone who is relatively new to chess. I believe that they were written in the 1950s.

Good Chess Openings Books for Beginners and Beyond....

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/good-chess-opening-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.amazon.com/Chess-How-Play-Black-Pieces/dp/057200866X

How to play with the black pieces by Reinfold.   Was my first ever chess book.   It very good for newbie players, all about sensible development

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