Why so many openings?

Do not worry about openings.
You do not win or lose because of the opening, but because of tactical mistakes.
Just develop your pieces into play towards the center.

TRY CHECKERS

Better yet, TIC TAC TOE!

With its symmetry, there are only 3 openings due to the symmetry:

A) Center - O must go in a corner

B) Corner - O must go in the center

C) Other - The center is safest for O, but he could actually go in any of the 4 squares in the same row or column as X as X's first move only controls 2 of the 8 possible wins while a corner controls 3 and the center 4. So if you numbered the boxes 1 to 9, and X went in 6, while 5 is the safest, O could go in 3, 4, 5, or 9 and be fine. 1, 2, 7, and 8 would lose.

#3 and #4 arent wrong

Tic Tac Toe - Has been solved

I have already Mastered it

Checkers - Has been solved

I have already Mastered it

Chess - Has not been solved
Maybe, A few years more, Than I’ll have it Mastered.

I'll believe you with Tic Tac Toe.

Demonstrate the forced draw in checkers!

The game of Checkers has been solved for decades.

Best Opening move is 11-15 (Old Faithful)

In unrestricted Checkers, all Checker games often start off from 11-15, over 90% of games.

In fact, Checker tournaments officials had to implement a new style of play in order to prevent massive amount of draws and repetitive positions.

Its called 3 move Checkers.

You draw a piece of paper from a hat and the paper has 3 moves on it which you and your opponent are required to play as a “starting position”. Than players play what ever they want afterward.

His point is it's only solved on a computer, nobody can state the best move for any sequence of moves because it's far beyond any human comprehension.

7-men tablebases are available for chess. According to your logic as soon as only 7-men are left the game should end as in a computer somewhere the perfect continuations are known.

OP's point is well-founded, chess has way too many openings. To really get chess openings and theory properly you probably have to be at least IM strength.

Checkers is arguably a much better game than chess because chess relies so much on openings and theory. You can't just not play openings in chess either, you always are sucked into playing something and will lose if the other player knows it and you don't.

So many people think chess is so much better and more intellectual and complex, eg. the saying "playing checkers while he's playing chess", but then when you have to spend so much time studying for a game like as if it were schoolwork, you have to wonder who exactly the smart people are.

Checkers has been solved for Humans & Computers.

This is what I am saying!

Chess isn’t solved, but you never know.

It could end up solved like other games.

Need plan

It won't happen any time soon.

With decades of intensive computing, tablebases have solved all 7-piece positions (7 and less, including the 2 kings).

8 pieces are soon to come. When it is done, roughly 0.000000000000000000000001 percent of chess will be solved.

The key is to learn chess opening principles because they can be applied to ALL openings and they usually give you a good position: https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again

I've got lots of chess videos, but here are 3 videos which might be useful for you