The Vienna is good for beginners, and the Caro Kann is a sound opening. The thing is at sub 1200 players don’t tend to play the book lines so knowing them will not help much, especially sub 1000. Knowing what the ideas and what they are trying to accomplish will be much better to know. That along with following the opening principles will get you into a playable position every time as long as you look for tactics. Every move you make in the opening should accomplish at least one of the opening principles, unless responding to a threat that can not be met with following the principles, or playing a tactic that nets you a minor piece gain into material or greater. Doing that will take you far in the opening.
Is my opening choice good?
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Mar 29, 2023
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The most important thing when it comes to the opening is learning and applying the opening principles. Your opening choice doesn’t really matter until get to 1200, and even then you don’t need to have chosen a particularly sound opening.
The Vienna is good for beginners, and the Caro Kann is a sound opening. The thing is at sub 1200 players don’t tend to play the book lines so knowing them will not help much, especially sub 1000. Knowing what the ideas and what they are trying to accomplish will be much better to know. That along with following the opening principles will get you into a playable position every time as long as you look for tactics. Every move you make in the opening should accomplish at least one of the opening principles, unless responding to a threat that can not be met with following the principles, or playing a tactic that nets you a minor piece gain into material or greater. Doing that will take you far in the opening.
The Vienna is good for beginners, and the Caro Kann is a sound opening. The thing is at sub 1200 players don’t tend to play the book lines so knowing them will not help much, especially sub 1000. Knowing what the ideas and what they are trying to accomplish will be much better to know. That along with following the opening principles will get you into a playable position every time as long as you look for tactics. Every move you make in the opening should accomplish at least one of the opening principles, unless responding to a threat that can not be met with following the principles, or playing a tactic that nets you a minor piece gain into material or greater. Doing that will take you far in the opening.
Openings are not important. At all. The important thing is that you don't play games like this:
I think it would be time to revisit some of the basics, like how the pawns move and how the pawns capture.
The same thing happens again, in this game:
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Openings are not important. At all. The important thing is that you don't play games like this:
I think it would be time to revisit some of the basics, like how the pawns move and how the pawns capture.
The same thing happens again, in this game:
To be fair you're completely correct and my board vision is extremely narrow. In my defense those games are 3 months old and I have improved quite a bit since that.
I believe games like this one (playing against a friend who doesn't know stuff but still) do a bit more justice to my current ability. (In this game, I'm black.)
Vienna and Caro are fantastic picks for a beginner from all the info I've soaked up as a beginner. Although I'm not skilled enough to start advising other beginners I would go to chessable.com and look up "short and sweet" free course over your openings to build a better understanding of your openings
Mar 29, 2023
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It took me years to realize that I needed two openings with black. One against 1. e4 and one against 2. d4.
Improving Your Chess - Resources for Beginners and Beyond.....https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/improving-your-chess-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell
I have just reached 500 elo and I mostly use the reti opening or sometimes the london, should I change my opening choices?
Mar 30, 2023
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My comment above addresses that. Your opening choice does not matter much at lower levels of chess. Especially under 1000. Players under 1000 should focus on tactics first, opening and endgame principles second, and learn the overkill mates (two queens vs king, two rooks vs king, queen and rook vs king, king and queen vs king, and king and rook vs king).
Last time I posted here I basically only knew how to move pieces. Thankfully, i've improved since that, beat Nelson (yeah ik he's not that good), and developed an actual opening.
My opening choice at the moment is the Vienna as white, which I tend to transition into a Four Knights, and the Caro-Kann for Black.
Is there anything I should improve?