The best for beginners:
1.e4 e5
2.Nf3 Nc6
3.Bc4 Bc5
My Favorite Chess Openings
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As I said in another forum topic, gambits can be used as a good tool for learning even for players with the "prophylactic-est" of styles. That said, you do need to have a fairly firm grasp of the game first.
For dalmatinac and MayTheHorseBeWithYou,Thanks for sharing your meaningful thoughts and advices for anovice like me. More power to your games.
I love Italian as white and Pierce as Black
thanks for posting mrsoccerchessman
Apr 3, 2008
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I think for novice players the Ruy Lopez is very interesting, if i was a teacher i would start by that.For black i m a sicilian player,but it s a very sharp opening, with many small tricks.
thanks Smartattack... honestly Ruy Lopez is my 2nd choice and sicilian defense for black but i don't have a good grasp for it.. of so many openings sometimes end up in undevelop pcs... my fault of course not the defensive opening.. i just laugh at myself for doing such silly mistakes every now and then... enjoy..
Apr 3, 2008
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I have been playing the scotch game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 )for most of my games as white recently
Apr 3, 2008
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Michael_Sarmiento wrote: thanks Smartattack... honestly Ruy Lopez is my 2nd choice and sicilian defense for black but i don't have a good grasp for it.. of so many openings sometimes end up in undevelop pcs... my fault of course not the defensive opening.. i just laugh at myself for doing such silly mistakes every now and then... enjoy..
Sicilian can be very stubborn to break when handled by experienced players...i m a sicilian Dragon player, but nowadays is considered an inferior defense.If u want and have time, study sicilian dragon (accelerated and hyper) and the sicilian Najdorf,if u master reasonably this two sicilian and their main lines, you are equipped with 2 powerfull tools to play against 1e4.If you want a rather quite game, take Ruy Lopez :)
Apr 3, 2008
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DaPharaoh wrote: I have been playing the scotch game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 )for most of my games as white recently
If treated corrected by black, Scotch opening gives no good lines of development for white
I'll take that in mind...thank you for sharing...
I'm sure lots of our newbies were eager to know more about opening and how it is being put to use by current members from beginner-experts.
Scotch game.
I have some experience in the Scotch. Back when I was considering switching from 1.c4 to 1.e4 I investigated the Scotch as my response to 1...e5. I liked the lines where black played 4...Nf6 but HATED the lines with 4...Bc5 so I more or less gave up on my Scotch dreams.
Fried Liver
judgeofthenight wrote: Fried Liver (after 4. Ng5)
Wrong! 4... Bc5 is the Traxler, also called the wilkes-barre gambit. It is a Rook Gambit! [offering a whole rook and pawn] (like some lines of the latvian aka greco counter gambit) It is theoretically correct.
Beginners, against beginners [otherwise they get beaten badly!] should often, say in 30% of the games, play Gambits, specially violent Gambits like traxler; muzio, salvatio and other king's gambit variations which offer a piece and pawn; and similar greco counter variations.
Why? Because this will sharpen their tactics - the "book" lines themselves are mostly wild and unclear - no one knows who is better placed - so remembering opening theory and general opening-theory principles don't help; you start getting tactics training almost from move 1 !
On this site there are several classic Traxler games that black won - search for them!
That said, the fried liver as given above is also good.
6. d4 is also worth trying - if black takes 6.. exd4 then 7. O-O with a strong attack.
But black should instead play 6... Bb4+ which equalises e.g. 7. c3 Be7 8. Nxf7 Kxf7 9. Qf3+ Ke6 10. Qe4 b5 11. BXb5 Bb7 12. f4 g6 - this is grandmaster analysis cited in MCO-14 so don't ask me no questions about it [it is unlikely to be glichy because all MCO-14 lines have been computer-verified according to the author GM Nick de Fermian.]
Smartattack wrote: DaPharaoh wrote: I have been playing the scotch game (1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 )for most of my games as white recently
If treated corrected by black, Scotch opening gives no good lines of development for white
Chess Assistant gives 57% for white in both the Scotch and Spanish, with 55% after 3 Bc4 .
For a beginner and novice player like me, the most important thing at the moment is to widen my familiarity with the game - its tactics, strategy, how to attack and ways to defend. Thus, studying chess opening is a good way to start.
Common advise that I had is to concentrate on one or two opening and learn them well. This way I can gain confidence, and achieve better results, by putting-up a good fight and not loosing very quickly.
My Favorite style is the King's Gambit. Like several open games, it is seen less often now a days compared before. but still a dangerous weapon in the hands of a skilled attacking player like Spassky and Fischer who have used the opening to score smashing victories several years ago.
Say something about your favorite chess openings, your insights would give us (beginners/novices) something to start with in finding ways to improve our play.