Chess openings for beginners/ kids

ex_submariner wrote (~5 months ago):

"If you can find a copy of 'How to Open a Chess Game', buy it!  Published in 1974 there are seven chapters, each by a leading grandmaster of the day ... The chapter 'Developing an Opening Repertoire' by Lajos Portisch alone is worth the price of the book. ..."

"... For white kingside openings Portisch recommended the Ruy Lopez exchange variation. ... For closed games as white he said play the King's Indian Attack and the English Opening.  Also the QGD. ..."

GM John Emms wrote an introduction to basic opening principles, Discovering Chess Openings (2006).

https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

"Throughout the book Emms uses excellently chosen examples to expand the readers understanding of both openings and chess in general. Thus equipped the student can carry this knowledge forward to study individual openings and build an opening repertoire.

Books of this kind in relation to openings are quite rare – and good ones even rarer. For beginning players, this book will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)

Definetely Ruy Lopez and Sicilian Najdorf.

Despite Dvoretskys love for the KIA I might suggest it could hinder growth playing such similar positions and plans. I think without a grounding in classic games and the earliest openings it would be hard to understand

When I was beginning I bought books on Ruy Lopez, Alekhine and Caro-Kann.  I almost gave up chess.  Those books were forgotten on the shelf, and my chess didn't improve.  I missed the point at that time.

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Whats up with this strange thread necromancy all the time in this forum.

I played the London in a tournament today and experienced exactly what is likely to happen to every beginner who plays it, and lots of people well-above beginner, too. I got a nice position and then struggled to understand how to proceed when the middlegame began. I came up with a plan that was not well-suited to the needs of the position and soon found myself defending a difficult position.

the one with the highest percentage used.

Hallo

Think: e2 (e7) has to move one or two steps for beginner, followed by knight and bishop, castle...

(tactical play goes over strategy, no doubt :-)

I am with DoctorStrange.