Good strategies for the Beginning of the Game

Anyone know some simple, but essential strategies for getting an advantage (positional and mabye material) at the beginning of the game? I want to improve my beginning games but some of the forums are just too much to read. So does anyone know anything simple?

Thanks

PS Im 13 so yeah

2 words book openings or just following opening priniciples your choice at the level you are at

nothing is simple in chess if it were no one would play.try fools mate its simple and fun if you can pull it off which is very rare but when you do lots of fun.

try to control the center 4 squares, move your knights before you move your bishops

ya the four knights game is good. my strategy after moving two knights and knings pawn two places ahead is to kill a knight with a bishop. this changed from getting beaten to beanting others

also castle and develop bishops and knights and create a good pawn structure

i follow a few of the basic openings but i want to know some tricks that help you - like enhancing the opening

the control of the central squares is very important, also, don´t move a piece to many times, you loose tempo that way. Nimzowitsch says that the move of the pawns are maked to create space, that means you only move pawns to ocupate some square and leave space to develop your other pieces.

thanks. im sure that will help sometime

Don't worry about tricks. Stick to the basics.

i have a trick when playing the four knights game, to kill a knight with a bishop. i find this is a matter of life and death if i do not kill it. 

i remember last year in a group chess lesson we were told about fools mate and we started playing. straight away my friend got fools mated. that was a fail. but nobody opens up like that - nobody i know - (hopefully my friend learned)

anyone know any?

noone else?

1. Move a central pawn two squares.

2. Develop minor pieces such that they influence the centre.

3. Castle.

4. Develop Queen such that it either worries the opponent's King or influences the centre.

5. Put Rooks on open files.

i know those basics but arent 3 and 4 middle game strategies????

How long is a piece of string?

as long as it is.