Best approach for beginner

Hey guys, I'm a beginner chess player and just wondering what the best method for learning is. I've joined chess.com and lichess and have been playing quite a bit.

Should I learn a few different openings really well or be more broad? What are the best openings to concentrate on early? https://xender.vip/

Thanks for the help!

Practically speaking there is no "best" opening...just some openings more solid than others and openings to experiment with until you find one you like and fits your playstyle. 

However, opening study can be really complicated and if you are Intermediate (and especially if a Beginner), then you can get by without opening knowledge and instead just apply basic "chess opening principles" as these are fundamental to the opening of chess. "Regular" openings with names usually follow these guidelines, so chances are that you'll end up with a decent position if you follow these guidelines

https://www.chess.com/blog/KeSetoKaiba/opening-principles-again 

Feel free to message me if you ever have any chess questions (openings or something else) or just want a chess friend to chat with. See ya around chess.com

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"what the best method for learning is"
++ The best method is to play, and then to analyse your lost game to learn from your mistakes.

"Should I learn a few different openings really well or be more broad?"
++ You should not learn any openings, it is a waste of time and effort. You should always play the same opening so as to accumulate experience: what works and what does not work.

"What are the best openings to concentrate on early?"
++ Do not concentrate on openings, concentrate on blunder checking, tactics, and endgames in that order. As black defend 1 e4 e5 and 1 d4 d5, as white open 1 e4.

Hi first of all learn notations 

then focus on pieces movement and basic checkmates  then move towards opening principles  after u understanding opening principles then move towards basic middle games book.

For more info please check the post which I shared for beginners only.

You can also add me up and I will share useful info.

https://www.chess.com/blog/Abhi_Mary_1997/chess-study-plan-for-beginners

Don't get me wrong I think  this guy is smart and brings up good points in his blog and the posts that he writes.  I also think his videos have loads of gems in them.  But I don't believe this blog is even necessary, just go here:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/study-plan-for-beginners-the-opening

That being said.   The reason why the "broader" approach is often said to be the better approach for beginners is because it's just TMI, too much information, otherwise.  You can't learn "everything" before you even begin to understand the fundamentals.  At the beginning a beginner knows little about tactics or strategy, so for the most part, all they have are "general opening principles."  It's easier to give a beginner a general map of the situation than to fill in the details when they are barely learning how to crawl. 

What am I talking about?  A beginner to intermediate lets say for arguments sake knows about 500-2000 tactical and strategical ideas while a master knows about 50,000, for arguements sake.  You can't drill in these ideas to a beginner on day 1 because no matter how hard you try one cannot teach a person to become a doctor in a day, regardless of how genius the person is.  It's much easier for a beginner to learn general opening principles because not a whole lot of memorizing is involved, well, not nearly as much.  Since the beginner doesn't know tactics or strategy, they are only going into the game, with "general principles."  You start this way because it's easier than trying to cram everything else in that your not going to even remember tomorrow anyway.  Get it? 

Lets say Tom knows 5 tactics and 5 strategic ideas, and Bill knows 50 tactics and ideas, Bill has a greater chance of winning because he has reference experience to draw from outside the general principles everyone learns as a beginner. 

Yeah sure, one can learn about the opening at all levels, but before that, learn basic principles.  That's all we are saying.  Though, relying heavily on the opening will lead to deceits to other areas of your play if you so choose to do it when you start playing in the beginning.

That is my humble opinion.  Feel free to disagree with it.

Before I go, I just wanted to say that the best way to learn general principles is to go over annotated master games.

Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

Fair enough - opening principles have been around long before chess.com was even a site, but I wrote this blog post because it became a necessity for me. I am active in the chess.com forums and typically friendly to those messaging me; I would get a flood of people (usually beginners) asking me variations of the question "what opening should I study?" or "what openings should I memorize?" I still get messages this these sometimes, but I used to manually type back in-depth responses for each person (essentially teaching them opening principles). 

It become a necessity for me to write a blog post on this topic so that I could simply copy and paste a hyperlink rather than re-write my answer over and over again. It became an efficiency thing and now I can use that "extra time" to work on my chess or answer other forums etc.

Glad you like my YouTube videos though @Fizzleputts I actually thought about YouTube because that was kind of an extension of the same problem-solving from writing the blog post. Quite frankly, I can reach even more people through a YouTube video than a blog post and I'd like to help as many people as possible with chess and help share this fun board game