Chess Openings for Beginners?

I'm Mid-700 in Rapid and I was wondering if I could hear suggestions about openings and utilize different openings so that I can improve my chess abilities, I also use the Scandanavian for black and Scotch for White so if you could tell me if those openings are good for someone of my skill that would be greatly appreciated. 

You pick a Practical openings for beginners. I played both Scandi and Scotch. You can view my games to learn. GM games are best but beyond your understanding for now.

You can have an excellent crash course of all the main chess openings here.

https://chessopenings.com/

Thanks for posting that, I've been meaning to learn some openings. I never really knew much about them until recently. Usually just try to make smart moves. Anyone have a suggestion on which one to start practicing?

I play 1 e4 as white. As black, depends on white's first move. They play 1 e4 I play 1...e5, they play 1 d4 then I play 1... d5, then build from there. Focusing on opening principles is probably a safer way to go and a better way to 'improve your chess abilities' as you put it  You can of course play whatever you like. If it's not broken...

Playing longer games is probably better too. I always play 30 minute rapid. Gives you more time to consider your best move.

I recommend trying different things out and see what you like and what works. I personally like the French Defense and Queen's Gambit. I study them using books and analyzing my games afterward to see how I can do better with them and improve later on. 

To improve on my openings, I use the opening explorer from my games to see which variations I do well with and which one's I don't do well. I find the variation and use an analysis board to see whether I should allow the variation or if I should play a better move

When playing white the London System is the easiest to learn. And it works against almost anything black plays.

If you play Scandinavian as black, you should learn Caro Kann, many of the different ideas and structures overlap. Scotch is also very good for beginners

Chess Openings Tier Lists by GM Hikaru Nakumura and IM Levy Rozman

Chess openings are rated in terms of their appropriateness vis-a-vis player skill level - i.e., beginner vs intermediate vs GM’s, etc. For each of the openings discussed be sure to pay attention to whether the evaluation is from White’s or Black’s perspective. They also frequently refer to some openings as "garbage" or "bad"; these qualifiers are used in the context of, for example, how much so-called "theory" (i.e., documented variations) the opening encompasses, or how much emphasis the opening places on positional versus tactical skills in order to play it well. For example, an opening they refer to as "garbage" (an unfortunate choice of terms) for a beginner may in fact be appropriate for higher rated players who typically know more of the theory for particular openings and have a more highly developed understanding of positional concepts.

The Chess Openings Tier List for Beginners…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9CwH47r6og
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHsb7-LbC34
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3FBRlzSMHc

The Chess Openings Tier List for Intermediate players...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qq_rEYTiLy4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCVdrmKHdiI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pblb8ZQ3OJ4

The Chess Openings Tier List for GM's...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glMp0dNGPN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vzDjlu-96s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HShiBcGbfeA

The Chess GAMBITS Tier List for Beginners...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9N6Bo7BBPg

GAMBITS.....with moves...
https://www.angelfire.com/nf/chess/Gambits.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chess_gambits
https://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/aa04g10.htm
https://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/aa04g31.htm
https://www.ianchessgambits.com/

Chess Openings Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/openings-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

For White I like Ruy Lopez, Guicco Piano, and Scotch, I think you want to focus on understand what the moves in the openings achieve to understand the principals. For instance don't get the in the habit of doing the Wayward Queen attack people might be able to get points early on but at some point people you face will know how to defend and then you will be at a disadvantage. 

As I do with most new players 

I try to explain the importance of the Reti opening.

It teaches players a defensive opening which will be harder to break through as well as having the double fianchetto bishops cutting across the board.

Since most players will want to learn the kings Indian defence as a answer to queens gambit or Saemisch , it seems like the best opening to learn as it teaches you the structure of kings Indian but one move ahead. As you grow used to the opening you can try different variations to try different pawn structures from the book opening to the Nimzo Larsen attack then finally variations like Capablancas Reti which helps players understand the fundamentals of certain defences 

from Kings Indian Defence, Gruenfeld,Marshall and Semi Slav all have the same shape as Reti but in different sequences with different pawn structures.

in my opinion 

if you feel comfortable playing Capablancas Reti then you should be comfortable with most defences against the D4 opening.

it’s also a great way to practice counter play since double fianchetto offers assistances to most pieces while attacking the centre of the board and up into your opponents back rank in the left and right corners.

It has so much fundamentals that need to be transferred over to black defences like Kid and The Marshall defence 

Reti book opening 

the defence is the Kings Indian 

Capablancas Reti 

Once you learn to play this 

you will have more knowledge on counter play with in these openings. As you can see the C pawn counters blacks D5. 
Learning exchange sequences is a must and I find this opening to be very educational when it comes to pawn structures and what exchanges to make in what attacks 

You don't need an opening. Players at our level will deviate from theory so fast it will make your head spin. If you MUST study a specific opening, try the Four Knights. You will get into that position more than half of your games whether you are playing White or Black.

e4, Knights out. Bishop out, Castle, Rooks and Queen to the Middle, Don't give away free pieces... win your game without knowing any opening. At our level, the winner gives away the fewest pieces, not the player with the best opening.

when you're playing as white, you shouldn't be looking for a draw, which is exactly what the four knights is in practice. other than that, i agree with @AngryNaartjie

The Four Knights is a draw if you are a Master. We're not masters here.

I am busy taking note of every opening I play, as black and as white and whether I win or not. In my last 30 or so games, I have seen the Four Knight about 25% of the time, but only because half the time my opponents play something super random. I won every one of those Four Knights games. I intend to take these notes until I have a nine large sample size, then come back and report back to this beginner forum.

Well either way I had fun watching the videos. Feel like I learned something.

Just move the pawn in front of the king and play normal chess. There isn't any better move, just play how you would normally play after that.

Reti?!