best opening for beginners

some of the best openings for beginners:

1: vienna gambit

This is a good opening, for many reasons.

1. it can give you a major positional advantage as soon as 5 moves.

2. if playing against very low elo players, it can lead toa short chesckmate, resembling scholars.

this is the main line, with it accepted

this is the positon with it declined

it can also transpose into the italian game and such.

the only defense against it is the anderssen.

I found the best openings for beginners to be the Sicilian defence kan variation

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Really helpful post thank you so much

thanks. i will add more openings as times go on

Vixirix wrote:

I found the best openings for beginners to be the Sicilian defence kan variation

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Yes, I would not hesitate to recommend it. It is the most solid and flexible sicilian, with easy development and does not require a lot of memorization. You get more opportunity to use your own judgement with this opening, compared to most 2...d6 lines.

Beginners should not be afraid to play the Sicilian. A lot of the opening advice for beginners is crap. As you progress, you will be playing players of similar ability, who are in the same boat. The Sicilian Defence is just as complicated for White as it is for Black. Black has a lot of control over the direction of the game, lots of choices for Black, which makes it less complicated for Black than is commonly believed.

I would think that the best openings for beginners would be the ones in which the aims are readily apparent, the book moves also happen to be "natural" moves that mirror opening principles, there are little or no retrograde piece movements or transfers, and do not have any complex positional ideas--no creating weak squares, inferior pawn skeletons etc. If an opening has moves that are confusing to a beginner in the first 8 moves, that is, a beginner can't explain why the confusing move is in fact the best move, then this is probably not a good opening for a novice chess player. By default, this makes the classical e4 openings like the Center Game, Bishop's Opening, Philidor, Four Knights and The Italian /Guioco Piano, Petrov, and Scotch Game as the best openings for beginners, as well as the 1.e4 gambits.

Sicilian and self variation of movement and mobility would be great to win 500-800 and Gambits:fish are good to win 600-1000   

Two good ones.....for beginners and beyond...not difficult to learn....

Introduction to the Vienna Game & Gambit…

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-the-vienna-game-gambit

Introduction to the Bishop's Opening...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/introduction-to-the-bishops-opening

and although I haven't created a blog article on the following (yet), they are worth checking out...(lots of articles and videos on all of these on the web and YouTube)...

The Scotch Game & Gambit.....very tactical.....never a dull moment...

https://www.365chess.com/chess-openings/Scotch-Game

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=scotch+Game+%26+Gambit

The Ponziani Opening.....solid...flexible...

https://www.365chess.com/chess-openings/Ponziani-Opening

The more you study and play an opening, the more you will typically know it better than your opponents' do (particularly at the amateur level)...thus, the more success you will have with it.

As White against the Sicilian Defense (1.e4 c5)…for beginners and beyond....

The following openings are designed to take your opponent (Black) out of his/her Sicilian Defense preparation from the very start. That is, to prevent your opponent from playing any of the myriad, heavily theory-laden ‘Open’ Sicilian variations that they have studied and hope to play, and probably know better than you do. Instead, you will force them to play a variation that you have studied and know well - one that they very likely have not and do not. Here are three good anti-Sicilian openings for that purpose which are relatively easy to learn, and interesting to play..

Fighting the Sicilian With The Grand Prix Attack...

https://www.365chess.com/eco/B21_Sicilian_Grand_Prix_attack

https://www.chessable.com/blog/grand-prix-attack/

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/fighting-the-sicilian-with-the-grand-prix-attack

The Alapin Sicilian...(aka, 'The c3 Sicilian')...

https://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m=4&n=37&ms=e4.c5.c3&ns=3.3.37#search_block_opening_explorer

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=alapin+sicilian

The (Smith)-Morra Gambit...

https://www.365chess.com/opening.php?m=4&n=52&ms=e4.c5.d4&ns=3.3.52#search_block_opening_explorer

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=morra+gambit

I typically go for the French-Sicilian (not the official name, but it gets the point across)

1. e4 c5

2. Nf3 e6

Nf3 isn't required; it's just a common move most people play.

It's not a flashy or interesting opening, but it can be tricky. It invites the opponent to play natural, but nonetheless inaccurate moves that leave me with a marginally better position right out of the gate and make it somewhat hard for White to find good moves.

i dont love the kan because it takes a little setup. i myself play smith-morra, or the cowboy attack, (b3) although i dont love it against beginners