New to openings


You will get lots of opinions, but I play Italian opening as white, and for black, King's Indian and Sicilian Najdorf. Evans gambit is popular, but you have to be excellent at gambits because their advantage is temporary, and if you miss your opportunity, you will be losing

Principle means a set of basic ideas that are fundamentally good. So controling the center, move your bishops and knights, castle. Put your rooks on open or semi-open files. You can accomplish a lot without memorizing openings simply by getting your king to safety, getting all your pieces out, and making sure all you pieces are defended.

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Vienna and I play Sicilian but i wouldn’t suggest it yet for you as it’s not even suggested for my level. Maybe French?

ok, basic white openings:
E4: most popular move. I always play this, and there is no doubt that it is a good move.
After they (usually) play e5, Nf3 is the best move. After they play Nc6 (they usually do) Scotch game and Italian game is very simple but leads to fun games. Many gambits in Italian game, such as Fried Liver Attack (gambits a knight), Evan's Gambit (very fun and very good gambit)
D4: Great move, I play this 1/20 times, leads to closed positional games usually, so not a common beginner move, but shouldn't be avoided only for this.
London System: I don't know all of the moves, but it is very solid.
Queen's Gambit: Great positional opening. Also some traps if they try to hold on to their pawn.
I don't know why everyone reccomends London System, but I suggest e4 and do Scotch/Italian Game.
My suggestion is Italian Game (which leads to Evan's Gambit) for beginner. The reasons are that the moves are Logical and easy to understand. It encourages rapid development of pieces, kingside, and castling. It introduces f7 weakness which is an important theme. It leads to open games that emphasize piece play. Start with the Italian, castle and then develop your queenside based on opening principles. Should get you into a good middlegame. Giuocco Piano is a fun line in the Italian.
You are going to get a lot of opinions here. What I can do is to recommend you series of Gotham chess - there is opening guide from Levy on youtube. If I remember well, he has series for London system for white and King´s Indian for black (after white plays d4) however it is good to choose something for e4 as well. Personally I play Queen´s gambit (accepted or declined, it can also turn into slav defense) and for black sicilian (mostly old variation or bowdler attack) or king´s indian sometimes nimzo-indian. There so many options. You should adapt opening that suits your style and that you personally like. Just look into opening explorer and find one that you really like (I recommend something what follow opening principles). After you choose it, study ideas about this opening look at some masters game so you know how the position after looks like
You cannot choose just to play a few openings. In practice you choose an opening move for White and you will have to play against anything that Black plays - for e4 that means e5, c5, e6 c6, d5 Nf6, d6 and sometimes even others, for d4 mostly d5, Nf6 or f5 (others are possible, too), for c4 mostly c5, e5 or Nf6 and for Nf3 mostly Nf6, d5, c5. As Black you need to be ready to play something against e4 and d4 at first (they are by far the most common moves). If you choose 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6, you need to learn to play Ruy Lopez, Italian and Scotch, if you choose 1. e4 c5, you need to learn closed, open and Alapin Sicilians, for 1. e4 e6 you need to learn the exchange, advance and Nc3/Nd2 lines of the French and so on. The question of picking an opening is a matter of style (do you like open or closed position and so on), but the most important thing is to learn to make good moves no matter what opening you face (so called opening principles) and to think, why the moves are made.
Hi,
presumably, in this forum, you will find a lot of advice and comments, which will then lead you to the information you may need. My answer will certainly not be as relevant as the answers of more experienced players here. Nevertheless, I hope I can describe my opinion on the beginnings of chess and the possibilities of how to improve in the game itself. Most of all, I think it´s necessary that you like to play, and that´s what you have certainly fulfilled. My attitude about getting to education more useful has often been based on getting more information from books, and so far they are perhaps the best source of knowledge for me. Usually, the information published in books is more comprehensive and their author took care of its wording more precisely. I would read the publication Chess Fundamentals by Capablanca, even if I was about to forget everything and start learning again, and the book Chess Masterpieces by Bird was also truly helpful to me, but the reader should expect from the second one, some of the comments and edits from the publisher, as the publication is the oldie and Bird has made some inaccuracies in summarizing the information, he had in mind and remembered.
I believe that you will find the most convenient way to learn chess! :-)
My suggestions: White: London System, Italian Game. Black: French Defense, Queen's Gambit Declined. Gambit: Danish Gambit


Try this as a good start. I have a lot more videos for beginners on my channel.
It seems to get me into the middle game easily enough without many mistakes - it is then my game falls apart.
I can recommend it because there is not much reacting to do, the positions are the same but I occasionally play the order differently based on what black does.
I’ve only played a few games as I’m focussed on learning via puzzles and against bots but have a 1100 rating .. for now.