My post 20 wasn't a direct shout at you.  It also was a message to all lower rated players, and just pointing out a prime example of what to expect from patzer opponents like the poster of the line 1.e4 e5 2.b3 Bc5 3.Bb2.

Many of the threads (not this one specifically) have people going around saying things like "Yeah right!  I'll believe it when I see it!".  So since we now "saw it" in post 18, just thought I'd point out to the general public, not you specifically Bednarek, that what we are saying really does happen!

That's OK I knew I'd be misunderstood I was shouting at everyone :)

No one is shouting, its called advice.  You can take it or throw it out the window.  Since none of us including you know your style of play, suggesting openings is a waste of time. 

London System in the top five!?

French should be there instead.

Harsh Advice

You can waste your time anyway you like. You don't have to follow any advice... :p

I will follow your advice.

Its advice, and its up to you if you want to heed it or not.  If you think its harsh, you may not have the intestinal fortitude for chess.  Or youre simply looking for advice that you want to hear, and not what to need to hear.  Good Luck either way.

Calm down, I've just been playing around.

LOL - This guy sounds like an American Politician!

ThrillerFan wrote:

LOL - This guy sounds like an American Politician!

All politicians are echoing their Master's voice. No?

Perfect description

Ah yes...mockery...and surprisingly the sheeple will follow along.

Something to keep in mind is that when a strong player says you don't need to learn any theory to a sub-1600 player, you can mentally add "after the 8th move" in there, because to a strong player that's where the meat and potatoes of opening theory usually starts. It's still a good idea to have the foundations of openings picked out (eventually you'll want two for White and Black, but watch some videos on a bunch of openings, learn the general idea of what they're about, play around with a bunch of different ones, and then maybe pick the ones you liked more) so that you can build on them when you wish to. You learn from trial and error to some extent, and you'll waste a lot of time if you're spending the first eight moves doing something different every time because you have no plan and you're 1300. Just don't waste your time memorizing super deep into things. Feel it out, figure it out for yourself.

Also something else to keep in mind: just because someone is good at playing chess doesn't make them good at teaching it.

here is a random quote.

Strategy requires thought. Tactics require observation.

WHAT ARE THE TOP 5 OPENINGS?

From the White side in order of popularity.

1. 1.e4  - Kings Pawn Opening
2. 1.d4  - Queens Pawn Opening
3. 1.Nf3  - Reti Opening
4. 1.c4  - English Opening
5. 1.g3  - Hungarian Opening

I just want to make it clear the above 5 openings are the top 5 played.

I just want to mention 1.b3 is ranked 6th. I know some people mentioned it but its not in the top 5 yet.

6. 1.b3  - Nimzo-Larsen Attack

From the Black side?

Giving the top 5 openings for black is tough because they have to wait until white moves. After white makes there move. Black will response accordingly.

I will give two examples:

First example:

If white plays 1.e4 which is the most popular white move. Black has 5 main responses in order of popularity.

1. 1...c5  - Sicilian Defense
2. 1...e5  - Kings Pawn Game
3. 1...e6  - French Defense
4. 1...c6  - Caro-Kann
5. 1...d6  - This defense is not yet defined.
   

It is not yet defined because the line is in the realm of tranposition still.

Alot of lines can be played from this position. At the present moment it is called the Rat Defense.

However, It usually does not stay in the Rat Defense for long almost never.

The tranposition lines which usually get tranposed into from 1...d6 are the Modern Defense or Pirc Defense.

Second Example:

If white plays 1.d4 which is the second most popular white move. Black has 5 main responses in order of popularity.

1. 1...Nf6  - Indian Game
2. 1...d5  - Queens Pawn Game
3. 1...e6  - Horwitz Defense
4. 1...d6  - Rat Defense
5. 1...f5  - Dutch Defense

Yeah as you can see the moves change depending on what white's move is.

I did a very curious activity project so to speak about what the best opening move was. I even made an article about it. I'll give you the link incase you feel like checking it out etc.

http://www.chess.com/blog/X_PLAYER_J_X/the-most-active-move-at-move-1

I thought it was a very interesting discovery.

So hopefully that can answer your top 5 openings.

You didn't ask for top 5 opening lines. So I guess I'll save that for another forum I suppose. However, at least you got some opening moves now.

dont focus on an opening because it has the highest win rate, it means nothing at your level. And if you want improve faster, dont take opening that close the game, more problems there are, more your brain works.

As an occasional casual player I find a contradiction between the opening principles and some of the book openings. There's an excellent article (meaning that it's easy for me to understand) on the 10 opening principles. I think it's on this site. Now if you take an opening like Ruy Lopez, 3. Bb5 means the bishop is moved to a less than ideal position and is likely to have to be moved again within the first few moves (unless it's sacrificed). 3. ... a3 seems fairly pointless and also violates those principles. (I tend to use the Berlin defence.) Also, in Philidor defence d6 blocks the dark-square bishop. On the other hand you can apply the principles and fall into traps, being beaten by someone who ignores them.

Just a few random thoughts.

And Brady success requires deflation!

Let's not forget what happened the last 2 times the Giants played the Patriots during the regular season - what scam you guys going to try on us this time and fail?

Oh Snap!  <as the kids say>