Chess Openings for Beginners?

Just learn opening principles, get your knights out take control of center, castle connect rooks etc… 

yeah Reti's a little too complicated for beginners imo

even more so than Sicilian and Grunfeld and stuff like that

I always recommend beginners not to beginn with the beginning.... don't focus on openingns! follow the five or six general rules for the opening (control the center, knites bevor bishops, don't move a developed piece twice, castle soon) and focus on the middle game strategies. do a lot of taktics and the courses chess.com provides. and, by the way, I'm a fan of capablanca: focus of endgames, they are teaching you a lot.

and you know this how? you've never been 1300

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Thanks for this! Some people, like Yosef115, just write that something is wriitten I believe.

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First of all, the Ruy Lopez is a deep opening no one 2000 or lower should play, you need to know so much theory and it is veryyyyyy deep.

The Danish is nice, but if black knows a few moves of theory they can get into a nearly winning position, it's not used at the top level and isn't good for U1000 players, they have to remember a lot of attacking ideas. The Sicilian for black I agree with, but choose something offbeat like the Taimanov or the French Sicilian or something. The Stafford gambit is pretty easy to refute if you know a few moves of theory, it won't work at 1300+ in my opinion, and therefore should only be used when tilted or in the last few minutes of a tournament, where the game might be cancelled before white can use their advantage.

i like to move the pawn in front of my dark squared bishop