Best Openings to learn?

I never bothered with learning openings because I felt it would make chess boring and be pointless since the opponent can just make an unexpected move and then you're stuck asking yourself, "now what"? I think learning basic principles and gaining positional understanding will take you much, much further

Back when I was a beginner, I played the Scotch game a lot. But Rhetro1 is right. No matter which opening you play, you need to be able to adapt to crazy moves - especially at a beginning level.

If you have no ideas though I would play either slav (for black) or just something simple such as the accelerated london for queens pawn

London and Caro-Kann.

Queen's Gambit is interesting, especially for beginners, you can crush your opponent's defenses by just sacrificing 1 pawn.

If you are bored with e4, try d4 for a change.

yea Queen's Gambit is pretty good as I had stated before just due to the fact that you get the center for the price of one pawn that you can win back in a few moves.

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Id recommend the Vienna for white and stanfford for black but if your getting tired of E4 then id recommend the Reti

English Opening is interesting.

I used to play two completely different lines in it, one line quite open and the other semi-closed, and I would just choose at the board whether I wanted a tactical fight or a maneuvering game.

The open line was the English Four Knights

I'm around 2k and I still don't have a real opening repertoire. I just play generally e4/e5. As black, I'll often just play a general semi-slav or tarrasch structure against d5. Middle game and endgame are much more important.

valid tbh

As a beginner, you should focus on learning general opening principles rather than memorizing sequences of moves.

Try to understand why opening moves are made. It is easier to learn the reasons for a move or a sequence of moves than it is to memorize the moves themselves

if I were your coach, I would give you a standard opening position about 5 moves in and have you choose the next several moves.

If you can do these, then it does not matter what opening is played. You will be able to handle anything new that an opponent comes up with.

I think London and sccilion defense is good

London. Yes it is boring but it gives you a good position

It gives good stable position. And beginner start to think that he knows how to play chess. In reality it’s “stable”. It’s not skill of the beginner who does not have skill by definition.