I... dont understand this part...
"usually it's... can't lose all your knights come hell or highwater....."
Playing without losing your favourite pieces, and so winning very slowly
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I am allergic to losing all my knights usually : ) <<< problem child
I had bishop losing sickness when i was a small kid, i thought bishops were slightly worth more than knights. But now i realize that humans make mistakes... so if you hold on to a solid defending position, and opponent makes a blunder, make sure to take advantage of it. 
No am allergic to those as well xD
Ahh yes! same... when i was like you. but later deep understanding removed teh allergies. xD
PawnstormPossie wrote:
Knights do well in closed positions
Yes, I guess I like my opponent to keep all closed up and then call in the cavalry. I think the technical term for me as an opponent is cannon fodder.
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Quite honestly, if your chess coaching is as loose as your grammar / English mistakes ........
I would prefer that my chess coaches were very precise communicators. Here is an example that has really helped me:
The closed Ruy Lopez as white and black both is a very rich opening. You get pretty far with no trades and lots of opportunities. The opening moves make sense and the plans are simple enough to grasp but complex enough to have room to improvise. It's not the easiest to learn, but it's a solid opening, playable from both sides. Recommend the Chigorin or Breyer variations for Black.
I'd stick to e4 as white, and if you want something more aggressive than the Ruy, try the Italian game, or even King's Gambit. Maybe it's not totally sound, but that doesn't really matter until you're getting up to expert level; the game will be decided by how well the players play, not the inherent deficiencies in an opening.
Eventually you should be developing specific lines you play for various openings, but you can play the King's Indian Attack against about anything until you come up with specific lines for what to do against the French, Sicilian, etc. I do recommend the Grand Prix against the Sicilian to avoid the reams of theory associated with the Open Sicilian (Gawain Jones has a good book on the Grand Prix if you decide you want to learn it). Most of your games you will probably face 1..c5 or 1..e5 for awhile, so Ruy and Grand Prix will get you pretty far as white.
As black I'd suggest e5/Ruy to learn it well from both sides because it will teach you so much. Against d4 however, stay away from the Nf6 defenses for now. They tend to be very, VERY complicated and hard to really understand what you're doing. 1..d5 will be simpler to get an understandable position. I don't play it myself, but what I play (Leningrad Dutch, 1..f5) is extremely dangerous to play if you're only kind of prepared. Very easy to have a losing position in 5 moves, but very aggressive and unbalancing if you do know what to do. I therefore don't recommend it until your tactics and positional understanding is pretty good.
Alternately, if you like youtube, John Bartholomew is probably the best instructional streamer. Watch some of his stuff and/or play what he plays. Best to have some examples for what you want to play to see how the game flows.
Really, you have 3 things you want to do in the opening, whatever moves you play:
1. control the center (the Indian defenses (1..Nf6) don't tend to do this well and are harder to play)
2. develop your pieces
3. get your king safe (usually by castling)
If you can do those things without giving up material and without making huge weaknesses, you'll have a playable game.
BIG, BIG THANKS TO @Lucidish_Lux for giving me these amazing notes 
Thank god for computers what person would put up with my nonsense!
I know everyone wants to be sleek efficient and super fast at winning but ... I'm always making up dumb rules in my head, like right you have to do the weakest opening etc....
usually it's... can't lose all your knights come hell or highwater.....
does anyone else have these mental illnesses?