What is the best opening to start with?

As white I like the King's Gambit or Queen's Gambit. Both seem to be on the easier side to learn. As black I usually play King's pawn or Queen's pawn.

DO NOT STUDY OPENINGS as a beginner!

Endgames, Tactics, Strategy, and only after you have MASTERED (not just spent an hour, see you in 2 years) all 3 do you worry about openings.

Until then, it is opening concepts. Control the center, don't move pieces multiple times unless threatened, castle and get the king safety.

After 2 years, chances are, you probably are playing an opening and don't even know it as you proceed to learn which patterns you best understand. I was playing the French before I knew what the French was. It wasn't 15 moves deep, but that is what told me to be a French player for 29 years.

Forget about openings for now.

What YOU LIKE and what the OP NEEDS TO DO are TWO TOTALLY DIFFERENT THINGS!

See post 4. If I were to just spout what I played for 29 years, I could tell him the French because that was what worked for me, but what works for you or me does not work for everybody!

Hence the approach mentioned in post 4 being what he needs to do, not just listen to people spew random openings. Soon some dumb clown will have him playing the bong cloud or whatever this dumb Cow opening is we hear about.

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As a beginner, the most simple openings are not always the best. Kings gambit opens up your king (Queens gambit is better), Caro-Kann clamps your pieces, etc. You need to play openings that best suit you. Learn your playstyle, then main an opening that complements it. Like if you're a defensive player, then Gambits probably aren't for you. I like focusing on big attacks on my opponent's pieces, so I main Italian. Also, learn openings for BOTH colors. You sometimes may think you can get around this, but trust me, a different color almost always means a different strategy, especially in the opening.

Once you have an opening, do some practice games. An opening is usually no good if you don't have a good follow up. Study for things like what to do & not, opponent strategies you should watch out for & how to counter them, etc. But remember, the biggest builder of an opening is your playstyle.

Also, lessons for the opening you main can be wasted if you don't get it. Make sure you understand run-downs before you do Chess.com's official teachings.

That's absolutely no problem. Once you know just the opening principles you can advance quite a lot.

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i like kings Indian attack btw

if u looking for an opening to play at 1000s u should try queens gambit chill opening

there isn't a solid "best" opening. find an opening you like, stick with it so you can practice, and repeat

I dont think there is a best opening but at different levels of chess you can have different chess openings my favourite chess opening currently as white is e3

as a beginner don't focus so much on openings. Focus on opening principles, like only moving two pawns, getting your pieces out, then find a good spot for your queen where she doesn't get harassed, connecting the rooks, getting your king to safety => castling. You need very little opening theory to play well.

In other words, leave opening theory be for the time being focus more on training your tactical eye, calculation. Play a lot of games, play what you find interesting not because you think some GM recommended it. It is important to play moves that you think make sense. Then after the game find out if it was a good move, a good idea or just bad altogether. Yes, this is painful but if you keep doing this two things will happen. You'll start thinking for yourself and you'll be playing moves that make sense to you, second thing, you're correcting your errors and if you keep doing that you'll be improving faster than all your friends and even your dad.

Practically no one does this except on occations. When I started out I was reading a ton of books. I knew the Najdorf 15 moves deep and got fantastic positions but I almost always lost when I played opponents who understood the needs of the position. And that only comes with correcting yourself, gaining a deeper understand of what is a good move in this position.

You can also analyze. Which is very effective. It is basically like playing against yourself so you learn what you know and what you think you know. Analysis is a masters tool but there is no reason you can't start as a beginner. It is very difficult at first because you'll have a beginner's mindset. You want to win and you don't care how. Winning is everything. Of course that is the driving force, but you can't improve by how much you want to win. Wanting to win is what should drive you to analyze, train your tactics/calculation. If you analyze your games you will see why you lost. As a beginner it will be tactical, almost always, you didn't see a threat, a small combo or you just blundered a piece or even mate.

Chess is a game of errors. The one who makes the least errors has the best chances. But you still gotta stay sharp because even in the best position there can be poison that leads to a loss or a draw. This is what makes chess so wonderful.

People say "don't focus on openings" and that's correct, to the extent that you don't need to be memorizing an opening repertoire when you don't even have the fundamentals down yet.

HOWEVER, I do find that there is one thing really helps new players learn the game a lot more efficiently, and that is consistency. Chess is a very inconsistent game, so anything that can add help with consistency will help you learn the game that much more efficiently.

So, learning certain openings is a good thing. For new players, I suggest learning the London System for white (lots of consistency) while for black, when facing 1.e4 I recommend the Caro-Kann. Many variations of the Caro provide consistent motifs that play relatively identical to one another.