Best Openings for beginners

Or you can try ...e5 openings like the Scotch Game

Italian, Ruy Lopez, Sicilian, French, Queen's gambit, and King's Indian defense are good open and closed options to play with both Black and White.

I’m a beginner do you want to play with me ? 

guys you can't play chess, it's the duras gambit obviously

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It's best to play fun, aggressive openings with dynamic structures as you will enjoy the game more.

With white:

• Italian / Ruy Lopez
• Open Sicilian

With black:

• e4 e5 / Sicilian
• King's Indian / Nimzo-Indian

These openings are very high quality at all levels. If you get good at a couple or all of these openings then your chess skill will improve dramatically as a result.

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You don't know what you're talking about and are just parroting what someone else is saying.

Open Sicilian is a great opening at all levels because it's fun, aggressive and gives you dynamic, open positions to develop your pieces and attack.

If you're playing it at a lower level then people won't play all the theoretical lines against you and it's just like any other opening. There are moves to know, some common mistakes, just like any other opening. When people think of theory below 2000 level it's not further than move 10. You're not playing against a GM who knows all the theory.

The Alapin is a very passive option and much less ambitious than the Open Sicilian. It actually hinders white's development as it deprives the knight of it's best square on c3. White can't actually establish a broad centre as black can force an IQP position.

I'm sorry but people who play the Sicilian do know the main line against the Alapin. It's actually a lot of Alapin players who don't know the main line theory of their own opening that they play. They just play it because they think it avoids theory and then don't know what to do when opponent does know. Black has very easy, rapid development and a good game.

Black equalises very easily and white is passive.

The Grand Prix Attack isn't that good and black does very well against it. The Wing Gambit is just a plain trash opening.

I would avoid openings like the Caro Kann and London as they are very rigid structures and quite boring. They are simple but very unambitious. They will not teach you much about the game and will be a bit of a snoozefest. These openings are mostly for positional players who want a slow, dry game.

Black equalises easily against the London. It's actually a much inferior option compared to the Queen's Gambit or main line Indian Game.

These are all very good choices.

Those openings work for me, and I am very new here.

Sicilian for Black because it takes away so much of the momentum from White's first move. I never feel that I am one step behind. I didn't know it was considered a hard opening. I agree that Ruy Lopez can get very complicated, but playing with White I much prefer it over Italian, which I find a snorefest. There are a lot of openings that other beginners play that I haven't really explored yet, such as the London system. I think I will try it on a few times on the low-level bots before I start using it in the wild. 

Exactly, well I do know Alapin theory. I played against an Alapin player before who clearly had no idea what they were doing. Like all they know is 1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nc6 3. d4... and then you play 2. ...d5 against them and they don't know what to do. Black equalises easily here.

The Wing Gambit is trash because not only does it sacrifice a pawn for dubious compensation but it also leaves the queenside crippled horribly. When black fianchettos the bishop it will just be a monster applying pressure to white's queenside and in the endgame black is just going to push up the pawns and win. It's not worth the centre and black can break it up anyway. The engine gives -0.7. It's terrible.

I don't know what you're talking about people "playing it against GMs and dominating" but sounds like a tall tale to me. The Wing Gambit gives a winning advantage for black so it's just about converting it successfully.

No, you won't because the opponent won't know theory either. Of course there are some things you need to know but that's the same with any opening. A lot of people actually do very well with the Sicilian at lower levels so you don't know what you're talking about.

If you are an improver, Sicillian, Ruy, Queens Gambit are stuff you should look for. Italian is of course solid too. These kinds of openings challenge both sides. Stuff like London system lacks the fight in chess, which is a fighting game. Why waste your initiative for safety? You are here to fight.

If that's the case, it doesn't matter what opening they play then if they will blunder and make a mistake anyway. Even if they play Sicilian and Ruy Lopez at 650 ELO, the opponents will also be about 650 ELO so they will be just as likely to make a mistake or not know the theory which makes it even and still good to play.

The difference is if they work on a good opening like the Sicilian or Ruy Lopez then they will actually improve.