Which is the best opening

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At your level it's important to focus on fundamentals. 1.e4 e5 as white and/or black.

and 1.d4 d5 as white and/or black.

Spanish and Queen's Gambit Declined.

Focus on maintaining a pawn in the center, fast development, and fast castling.

Don't feel like this is only for beginners, those two openings are played at every level, including world championship matches. But focus on development and other opening principals over memorization, and then win your games with tactics and good calculation habits in the middlegame.

Other good openings (like the ones you listed, Scotch, Petroff, etc) are fine too.

I like the Ruy/Spanish because it will expose you to wider variety of positions, but there's nothing wrong with other good openings.

IMO, in the beginning, the most important thing is playing enough that you develop good calculation habits and some visualization skills. This can be helped by solving puzzles, analyzing your games, playing over notes in a book without moving pieces (as far as you can, then moving the pieces) etc.

Because after you can spot most 1-2 move combinations. then not only are you winning a lot more games, but now strategy starts to make more sense. You start consistently getting to move 15, 20, 25, 30 and material is equal, but one player's position feels a lot better. Why is it better? Because of strategic stuff you've heard about, and now it's making more sense because you're experiencing it.

1. Their is no "best" opening.

2. At your level, opening dont matter.  You can play 1.a3 and win.

3. This is asked all the time.  And yet here i am answering the same question i have answered before. 

4. Have i said openings dont matter?

5.  No really...you can play 1.a3 and win. 

6. Asking what is the best openings is like asking what is the best vegetable?

7. I love salads. 

8. With ranch dressing.

9. Now i want a salad...

10. Tomorrow is Friday!!!

I would personally recommend the London System(d4 Bf4) because it's a good solid opening for beginners.

Is popcorn a vegetable?

If it crunches.  Its a raw veggie.

For me silician defence works at an amazing level.

"6. Asking what is the best openings is like asking what is the best vegetable?" Everyone knows the best vegetable is kale, but which kale? Yes, you're right any kale is the best kale.

Not saying it is the best, who I'm I to even really have an opinion, but I found the London System a quick study and Simon Williams has some training videos called "London System for the Busy Chess Players" under Learn -> Lessions -> Mastery -> Openings.

e4 with white, anyways

No. I'm a chess.com free member.

I don think it matters so much what opening you play....the important thing is to find something that you enjoy. A good place to start this exploration would be David Bronstein's book "200 open games"  It covers a wide range king pawn openings and his writing style is quite entertaining. 

Like others have said, their is no best opening. After learning opening principles and playing some games, I learned that I played the Italian a lot as white without knowing it was an opening. After playing more games, I learned that I loved 1.d4 openings more, particularly Queen's Gambit. Most folks I play with at my level accept the gambit right away or at least earlier than they ought and if you plan ahead you can get a big advantage in developing and coordinating pieces. For black, I don't know that I have a favorite. I feel that e5 after e4 or d5 after d4 are safe. I think the Sicilian is pretty good as black too, but I would probably recommend reading up on it and playing it as a daily game where you will have plenty of time to calculate variations first because you really shouldn't develop your pieces the same way after 1...c5 as you would 1...e5. I think the Scandinavian is a fun change of pace if you don't mind being down a pawn for a little bit. The French for black has a lot of fans too, although I have never played it. I really don't know that there is a "best" though. Openings are more about the journey than the destination.

https://chessmood.com/blog/what-are-the-best-openings-in-chess I recommend to read this article