Best Openings for beginners

Saw a good video on this recently.

I'll give a perfect example of this. You can say you just need to follow principles like "put a pawn in the centre, get the knights out, get the bishops out" and then you end up with something like this:

Sure, this is still a game but if they want to improve, this will eventually be detrimental. It loses the advantage and gives an uncomfortable position. So what have we learned? Developing in a seemingly natural way falls for a common tactic. So playing this instead is better:

This is now an opening, the Italian. Learning openings IS important.

Can you give us a link to that course you're following? Sounds promising...

I know. I'm definitely an excellent choice for a beginner. And even for an advanced one. Wait... when you said the Spanish you were talking about me, right?

Seriously, though, whether the Ruy López is good for a beginner depends on what you mean by beginner. If you mean a 1200 beginner, then, yeah, by all means learn the Ruy López (just the basics, though, not the whole thing). If you're talking about a 300 beginner, like in this case, not much point in learning an opening based on pins and pawn structures when they probably don't even know what any ot those things are.

I know. I'm definitely an excellent choice for a beginner. And even for an advanced one. Wait... when you said the Spanish you were talking about me, right?

Seriously, though, whether the Ruy López is good for a beginner depends on what you mean by beginner. If you mean a 1200 beginner, then, yeah, by all means learn the Ruy López (just the basics, though, not the whole thing). If you're talking about a 300 beginner, like in this case, not much point in learning an opening based on pins and pawn structures when they probably don't even know what any ot those things are.

I know. I'm definitely an excellent choice for a beginner. And even for an advanced one. Wait... when you said the Spanish you were talking about me, right?

Seriously, though, whether the Ruy López is good for a beginner depends on what you mean by beginner. If you mean a 1200 beginner, then, yeah, by all means learn the Ruy López (just the basics, though, not the whole thing). If you're talking about a 300 beginner, like in this case, not much point in learning an opening based on pins and pawn structures when they probably don't even know what any ot those things are.

“I’m not sure he’s right”!

Wonderful! I would have said that he is spewing fecal matter. Of course, although Levi is one smart dude, he pushes a lot of nonsense because it builds his audience.

What this guy meant is that a player who is 650 NOW needs advice that works for him NOW. You want to give him advice that will work when he's 1000, 1300 or 1800? OK, but at least be clear and tell him first that that advice won't work until he reaches that level. And, honestly, why would you want to do that anyway? If you want to give 1800 Elo advice, great, but give it to 1800 Elo players.

And, as I said, he's not even really 650. His "real" Elo is more like 300.

The point is that a 300 needs to learn about pins, so if they’re gonna waste their time learning an opening, they oughta learn an opening with pins.

There’s also the old and disputable notion that an individual player’s progress follows the pattern of the history of the game.* Fr. Rodrigo Lopez sought to refute the “weak” 2…Nc6, preferring 2…d6. This idea is worth exploring at any level. So, a player starting out should play the Italian, Spanish, Philidor, and King’s Gambit. However, rather than picking up an opening monograph, opening study should begin with these games: https://www.chessgames.com/player/gioachino_greco.html  All of them.

*See Max Euwe, The Development of Chess Style

I'm not a Levy Rozman fan. Let's just say that lol.

Besides pins and forks, beginners should learn why the battle for the four center squares is important. And that in opening moves it is wise to develop pawns, then light pieces, or you will lose a lot of tempo. That is the context in which a 500 elo should learn common openings. 

King's Indian Defense is good?

me parece que la defensa india del rey es una buena opcion para contraarestar esa accion