Opening principles first, champ. You are at a level even if you learned an opening it wouldn't matter because people will do random stuff anyways. Train your tactics.
Opening for beginners
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Play developing moves like this.
I’ll try some of those openings, thanks
I would say if your a begginer to do london. I have never played it but I know LOTS of players that used it up to 1500 elo
Ok
E4 E5
Develop your pieces towards the center, then castle. kind of like this.
Basic opening principles- Develop quickly, put 2 pawns in the center (if you can and it won't get taken), and castle your king quickly.
Play should look something like this:
(You don't have to follow this exact move order, but this is a general idea of what you want)
Or like this, if your opponent allows you to take the center:
(again, you don't have to follow this exact move order, but this is good to keep in mind)
You don't have to learn any openings yet. Just make sure to avoid this stupid trap with the queen and the bishop, the Scholar's Mate (the following examples are from black's perspective):
You can refute it like this:
Follow these principles and you'll do just fine.
Thanks guys
thechessgod5454 wrote:
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
Chess principals are a necessity. But if you are looking for something specific and can get you wins. Here are a few for WHITE: Danish gambit, Italian center attack and fried liver, Ponziani, BLACK: Scandinavian (Nf6), Normal Scandinavian, Englund Gambit, Albin counter gambit, caro kann
My personal favorites are Ponziani for WHITE and Nf6 Scandinavian for BLACK. Caro is also good except more solid rather then aggressive.
I'll show Ponziani and Nf6 Scandinavian. Gothamchess has videos on both of these openings along with a few others.
PONZIANI:
Scandinavian Nf6 line:
THESE are trappy but still good according to stockfish.
Another good option is the vienna Gambit gothamchess has a vid on. But it's kind of advanced.
u love gothamchess
not true. I watch any instructional creater including Daniel Naroditsky, Chess brah, Chess giant, Gothamchess, Eric Rosen and more. It is true that I learned vienna from gothamchess. But I also learned more from Hikaru and other videos about vienna. PONZIANI is an opening I learned before gothamchess even made a video on. I learned it by Eric Rosen. And Scandinavian is what I learned from this YT called the chess website.
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
Chess principals are a necessity. But if you are looking for something specific and can get you wins. Here are a few for WHITE: Danish gambit, Italian center attack and fried liver, Ponziani, BLACK: Scandinavian (Nf6), Normal Scandinavian, Englund Gambit, Albin counter gambit, caro kann
My personal favorites are Ponziani for WHITE and Nf6 Scandinavian for BLACK. Caro is also good except more solid rather then aggressive.
I'll show Ponziani and Nf6 Scandinavian. Gothamchess has videos on both of these openings along with a few others.
PONZIANI:
Scandinavian Nf6 line:
THESE are trappy but still good according to stockfish.
Another good option is the vienna Gambit gothamchess has a vid on. But it's kind of advanced.
Most of these openings are substandard but passable. However, the Englund Gambit is actially trash. You can't be allowed to get away with this.
Also Gothamchess is trash.
SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
Chess principals are a necessity. But if you are looking for something specific and can get you wins. Here are a few for WHITE: Danish gambit, Italian center attack and fried liver, Ponziani, BLACK: Scandinavian (Nf6), Normal Scandinavian, Englund Gambit, Albin counter gambit, caro kann
My personal favorites are Ponziani for WHITE and Nf6 Scandinavian for BLACK. Caro is also good except more solid rather then aggressive.
I'll show Ponziani and Nf6 Scandinavian. Gothamchess has videos on both of these openings along with a few others.
PONZIANI:
Scandinavian Nf6 line:
THESE are trappy but still good according to stockfish.
Another good option is the vienna Gambit gothamchess has a vid on. But it's kind of advanced.
Most of these openings are substandard but passable. However, the Englund Gambit is actially trash. You can't be allowed to get away with this.
Also Gothamchess is trash.
I know but they work for the lower levels. Except that might be a problem as right now I'm struggling cause I play trash openings. And yeh gothamchess is trash at the game. but a decent teacher. I like Ginger GM or GM Simon Williams better as well as various other channels.
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
not true. I watch any instructional creater including Daniel Naroditsky, Chess brah, Chess giant, Gothamchess, Eric Rosen and more.
You forgot the best chess coach ever.
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
And yeh gothamchess is trash at the game. but a decent teacher.
I think the opposite.
He's decent at the game but a trash teacher.
SamuelAjedrez95 wrote:
Chill_Vibes_Booming wrote:
not true. I watch any instructional creater including Daniel Naroditsky, Chess brah, Chess giant, Gothamchess, Eric Rosen and more.
You forgot the best chess coach ever.
CothamGhess (aka Revy Lozman), a 100-rated bullet player who advocates for advanced openings such as the Sicilian Defense and the Ruy Lopez. He quit chess when he was 15 and came back when he was 8, and the first opening he learned was the Sicilian Defense. He says he got many spectacular wins with it but nobody actually believes him because he's never won a game. He's known for his controversial statements against the popular Caro-Kann Defense, a popular opening at the grandmaster level known for its solidity, saying that the Sicilian, a more beginner-friendly opening, is much more suitable for a chess player and that the Caro-Kann is too simple of an opening to be played correctly.
I am not good. What openings should I use? For black and white.