Keep playing e4?

Hi Ryan. Changing openings wont solve your problems. If you are keen to improve then study regularly. As a beginner it is likely your ability to calculate, visualise and evaluate moves in your head, before they appear on the board, will be weak. Puzzles will help strengthen this skill. Prioritise doing 5 to 10 puzzles every day and give it a few months. A good book that teaches this is Chess Tactics for Students by Bain. Logical Chess by Chernev was mentioned. It is a collection of GM games selected and annotated to teach beginners basic principles. Every move is explained. In many games Chernev highlights a positional weakness that a player has used as the basis of a plan. Playing through these games is a good way to start learning about positional chess and how to select a weakness in your opponents position and form a plan to exploit it which unifies your moves. Tactics are important but I think it is good to learn both tactical and basic positional ideas together, as well as develop your calculation skills. As your ability to look a few moves ahead improves, along with positional and tactical understanding, plans will come to you and your chess will improve. Hopefully you'll see that this had nothing to do with e4.

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