Openings for beginners - which to start off with?

Hello! What openings do you guys recommend to start with when you want to learn some openings? I'm pretty much a beginner so nothing too complicated please! :)

e4/e5, will probably end up being a ruy lopez or italian game

against d4, play queens gambit declined.

I liked QGD when I started because there was less complex ideas to learn unlike the nimzo and Slav defense.

Start with open games 1.e4 1...e5

DO NOT waste time learning openings.  At your level, spend your rime learning the opening principles:

Control the center squares e4-e5-d4-d5

Develop your minor pieces towards the center

Castle

Connect your rooks

Hi,

I'd say 1.e4 with White, with Black sicilian and Queen's pawn game.

Hope that helps

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A lot depends on the people around you.  I came from an environment where the Queen's Gambit was extremely popular locally, and so I first learned the Queen's Gambit, QGD, and French.  I actually played the French only because it's what came to me naturally, like a baby becoming left- or right-handed, and the Queen's Gambit was all the rage where I was at the time, and so I play it as both White and Black.

That said, I agree that the best two openings to learn are e4 e5 and d4 d5, and really you should exercise BOTH with BOTH COLORS!  In addition, the Ruy Lopez and Queen's Gambit Declined are two of the most "principled" openings.  Many of the "Opening Concepts" apply to these two openings, and neither one "violates" the concepts that beginners learn, like not developing your Queen too early (Scandinavian), or grabbing your share of the center (something the King's Indian Defense fails to do).

That said, do not, and I repeat, DO NOT start trying to learn all of the theory.  Play thru a bunch of games with the QGD and Ruy Lopez, ignoring the annotations, and try to understand why each move is being made.  Playing thru 50 GM games with the Ruy Lopez, 50 GM games with the Queen's Gambit Declined, and playing a few dozen games with 1.d4 and a few dozen games with 1.e4 as White, along with a few dozen games with 1.d4 d5 and a few dozen games with 1.e4 e5 as Black, will take you a long way!

Also, let me emphasize, how useful your studying and practice is will depend on the format of what you play:

MOST USEFUL - Game in 60 minutes or longer OVER THE BOARD!  Find a chess club if you don't have a person to practice games with.

NEXT - Correspondence Games WITHOUT the use of a computer until after the game is over (some sites allow computer use - you need to play the game to get better, not Rybka)

NEXT - Time controls between 15 and 59 minutes over the board.

LEAST USEFUL - Online Blitz and Bullet (i.e. Game in 5 minutes on Chess.com).

There is also a old but true adage - 1 Hour of thorough studying from a chess book is MORE USEFUL (not "equally", "MORE") than 12 Hours of online Blitz!

i m also a beginner .i usually start with d4 .can u plz suggest me if it is gud or not and also what should be best to move next ?

It's fine. What to move next depends on what your opponent does. Chess isn't about memorising sequences of moves.

Get your pieces into the game, control the centre and castle.

I like the King's Indian Attack as white and the King's Indian Defence as black.  These i find good because I can play them pretty much without regard to what my oppenent does.  I end up with similar positions on my side in most of my games, and it's easier for me to get to the middle and end game without getting into openings that I don't understand.

Just my 2 cents.

You can play whatever you want against any opponent response. It doesn't mean you understand the differences in the positions.

This.

But try to connect your rooks by move 10. Why? Because 1) it will force you to develop by emptying out the back row, and 2) it won't allow you to prematurely attack until rooks are at least connected first.

Many yeasrs ago, when I went through a semi-serious chess phase, I used to get clobbered by players who had memorized tons of opening lines, and I'd almost always be at a disadvantage after 6-8 moves.  So I decide to study just a couple of openings that I could either select as white or steer the game into as black.  So I usually play the French defense (P-K3) against a King's pawn opening, or the Dutch (P-KB4) against most any first move on the Queen's side.  As white, I often play Bird's Opening, which is just the Dutch with a move in hand.  When I don't open with P-KB4 (Bird's), I usually open P-K4, then try to steer us into a Ruy Lopez against a P-K4 reply (taking the black knight with the bishop at move 4, since that's a less common line, and most average players (like me) haven't memorized anything beyond the retake.)  I also have a pet line against a Scicilian reply, a playable but less common line that gets us out of the book ASAP.  

In sum, I minimized memorizing the openings, learning just barely enough to get me and my opponent out of standard opening lines ASAP, so I'm not already at a big disadvantage early in the game.  For a casual player, I'm convinced this is the way to go.  

Unless of course there is benefit to ignoring this advice.

I guess. 

Ignore advice.

Lose at chess.

Give up chess.

Go out.

Meet nice girl.

Live happily ever after.

You serious?

If I can win a queen on move 8 I'm not going to worry that my rooks wont be connected by move 10.

Thats pretty obvious...

Beginners miss a lot of the obvious. Especially when following rules.

Absolutely, but i was giving the OP some of the basic opening principles.  Tactics are up to him.