Openings for White or Black

There are so many openings to learn...  smile  I will keep you guy's advise in mind.

Looks good thank you protos I will give it a try.

Sounds Interesting bigmac... Will look into the four knights too.

If some oppenings are designed to give black less options, what openings should black try and avoid?  Still learning...smile

You're asking the kinds of questions that spark endless debates among players of all strengths. When you have a little experience, the answer, or at least an answer becomes: Play what you know and are comfortable playing. In some cases, black may have fewer options, but this may mean fewer lines to worry about as long as some of the lines which are available are perfectly playable.

How do you get to the point of finding something comfortable? Well ... any way you can. One way might be to buy a book like Modern Chess Openings which has thousands of lines, the vast majority of which will be of absolutely no use to you, at least for a good long time. However, it will contain brief descriptions of most if not all of the main systems for both white and black, and several of the key variations and subvariations. I do NOT suggest trying to commit significant or even modest portions to memory. Rather, I bring this up as a way to get a brief introduction to many of the openings which exist.

At your leisure, and just for fun, you can read through the introductions and see which seem like they might be interesting and suit your own temperment. In practical terms, unless you are playing a much more experienced player, you will likely find yourself "out of book" in the first few moves anyway, so detailed study and/or memorization will be time wasted. But if you can get the idea of some openings, and repeat them in appropriate situations, you will be on the way to developing the sort of pattern recognition which will pay dividends down the road.

The really bad moves usually aren't in there, so you will be on your own if your opponent makes a blunder, a minor mistake, or even an "inaccuracy." In some cases, however, the book will be a good reference for post-game analysis in the event you were the one to go wrong. As you get better, it will be of more use to you.

If you find an opening which seems to work for you, and you want to study it a bit more, you can always find other more detailed sources and games.

Personally, I think finding a few choices which you find personally comfortable may be the first step toward surviving in good shape to the middle game. Also, study some tactics and the most basic endgames. I've seen so many games where an inexperienced player finally gets into an easily won endgame, and has no idea what to do, often losing as a result. I've won or at least drawn many "losing" games because I knew a tiny bit of endgame theory.

One further comment regarding choice of opening: When I played more, including the local tournaments, I'd try to find out what my opponents liked to play, and avoid those openings altogether. I had a friend who was fond of either the Ruy Lopez or Giuoco Piano (both 1 e4  e5 openings), so I would play the Sicilian Defense (1 e4  c5) or French Defense (1 e4  e6). A lot of players knew king pawn and queen pawn openings as black, so I would often play the English (1 c4) [not recommended for beginners!]. In short, I wanted to play openings I knew better than they did. In the jargon, I wanted to "take them out of their book." (It was interesting watching someone burn eight minutes of his clock on move 3!)

On this site, with as many players as are here, that's likely impossible. So it's best to find something you like that makes sense, and can learn and understand. As your experience increases, you can begin to make other choices for yourself from a more informed perspective.

Thank you Bur_oak Your advise is very helpful and instructive.  I think it is a very good idea to spend my time learning end-games and tacticts.   I will do just that...smile

I say that this is the best

Berzha, what do you do if Black tries to hold the pawn, with pawn to b5?

I've tried playing that before, but I finally figured it was better to play nc3 before e4.

Otilla I've decided to give you some "beginner" openings for both white and black to use.

For white