can someone pls help me find a good but easy opening so i can get 500 elo?

Don't play the London System, it's kind of stale because you get closed positions, which are hard for beginners to handle and dont improve board vision due to the lack of piece contact.

I suggest the Botvinnik System.

Try to get this setup no matter what black plays and attack on the queenside by pushing your pawns all the way forward. Notice that you can open up your bishop on g2 by playing e5 at some point. Both of your bishops are looking into that direction.

You can also play d4. Check the positions you get with the engine and you will get a feel for when to play what in which kind of position, it's really simple and even if you go wrong, it's super solid. Just try to open the position up on the queenside and you'll be okay.

And if you're unsure, I can go over your games and tell you what to work on, just send them to me.

BTW, I was referring to the "dynamic" variation of the London system, which has an early Ne5 and dreams of O-O-O and a f/g/h pawn storm on black's position in the future, rather like the Yugoslav Attack- quite different from a standard, positional London.

Oh, sorry if I missed a joke there !

In any other case, I would say that suggesting the Wayward queen nonsense to a beginner is a disgraceful, disgusting thing to do.

But this is Compadre_J. This is what he does. I am not surprised at all.

He is right though, about the "pure annoyance" of this "oppening"

You are completely correct!

The “Scholars Mate” isn’t a long term line.

It is a short term line which can help players gain points fast, but only to a certain ranking extent.

At which point, The same strategy and trick no longer works as the opponents have become stronger and will not fall for it any longer.

At which point, You as a player need to move on to your next short term trick line or try to learn a long term line.

Either way is completely fine!

You could aim to study 1 long term line and use it your entire chess career and progress up the ranking ladder with it.

Or

You could aim to study dozens of short term lines and hop from 1 line to another as you make your climb upward.

Both strategies can work and at the end of the day if you are happy that’s all that matters!

Who should I recommend the Wayward Queen Variation to if not a Beginner @Magipi?

Do you think I should be recommending it to Grandmasters or something?

Come on Magipi - Your not thinking about what you’re saying.

The Wayward Queen line is a beginner line which is played by a lot of beginners.

at 500 elo online (so around 100/200 elo OTB) is totally useless look for an opening line to play or variation, studying an opening line or variation at this level will keep you stuck at this elo rating forever. from 500 to 1800/1850 elo play only e4, Nf6, Bc4 as first moves. depending on what your opponent will play as second and third move but in general as white e4 only. As Black if your opponent play e4, always and only e5, and if he play d4 always and only d5. Then when you will reach at the least 1700 / 1800 elo is possible to start to learn an opening you like. Is ok also if you want to learn a variation and opening now at 500 elo, but the problem is that in this way you'll always stay at 500.

You shouldn't suggest the Wayward queen to anyone.

When you give advice, it should be good advice, not bad. The second best option is to not give any advice. The worst option is what you are doing, again and again.

you totally right, but in general a chess player plays the wayward one time in his life just for fun to make a couple of laughs. And it is also very weird that someone suggests some openings lines and variation at someone below 1800 elo. Imean he is 500 elo, so if he is 500 elo is pretty clear he would like to learn how to play and become even better, and not loose his time studying an opening or openings theory.

I usually play e4 and accidentally got above 1400

Reading all of this, I think it’s fine if I stop focusing too much on understanding openings. Every time I try, I end up making moves without knowing what the next good ones are, and I end up as lost as I was before playing the second move. I think it’s better to lose and lose until I find my own logic in the openings, and then maybe look at the theory later. But right now, learning opening lines seems pointless at my 300 Elo rating. Because then what? I’ve realized that you can recover from a bad opening, but you can’t recover from a complete lack of tactical vision in the middlegame and endgame. But I could be wrong.

I was thinking on trying it one day but I almost find it disrespectful and shameful hahaha

I guess we have a difference in opinion on what classifies as bad advice.

The player in question is below 500 ELO.

I see nothing wrong with teaching them how to play the Scholars Mate.

It’s not an opening/line he can play forever, but if it helps him learn, have fun, and get better.

Then why not?

Everyone should know the Scholars Mate.

It is a fundamental line in chess history.

Why not? Because it's a bad opening, both theoretically and practically. If the guy plays the Qh5 line, it's the opponent who is gonna have fun.

You should teach why is that a bad opening and how to punish it.

Again: the problem with giving bad advice is that you do actual harm to actual people. Some of them might believe you.

At 500 elo level Wayward Queen is not a bad opening. I remember killing my sister in that opening when I was about 7. That was before I was 1200 on yahoo chess at age 11 or so. Those were the good old days.

There was a point where I was seriously analyzing Napoleon gambit lines. I have since moved on to bigger and better things however (English, Bishop's opening, etc)

There's nothing wrong in trying out bad openings. In blitz chess, openings don't matter anyway.

My problem with CJ is that he advises beginners to play bad openings. That's disgraceful in my opinion.