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What chess openings would you recommend to beginners?
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Jun 25, 2022
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All openings are positional also. The best way to improve positional play is to study strategy. The 5 elements of evaluating any position are space, time, king safety, pawn structure, and material. You should study those elements, and how they are used in games. Some of these have different names in the opening like time is development and space is controlling the center. Traps in the opening only work if your opponent falls for them, and often leads you in a worse position then you would have had been had you not played the trap. If you are talking a tactics instead then that is different. For white if you want games that tend to be more open and have tactics choose an opening that starts with 1e4. d4 openings tend to be more positional, and not have as many tactics. The Sicilian against e4 will lead to very tactical games, but is not the most beginner friendly opening. Ruy Lopez as white may be an opening to look into also. Grunfeld may an opening against d4.
Also when it comes to playing closed positions it is about creating pawn breaks in your opponent's position. that is another thing to look at when studying strategy.
Hope this helps
Jun 25, 2022
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#4
You do not need to worry about openings. Just follow opening principles and you will pick up the positional ideas as you go.
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As black defend 1 e4 e5 and 1 d4 d5 2 c4 dxc4, as white open 1 e4.
white: LONDON SYSTEM ( this is my favorite because it does not have complicated main lines since it's a setup based openings. It's also a bit hard to play against because it's a solid opening. I won many games with it. )
Black (against 1.e4) : Caro-Kann Defense
For white e4 and for black, e5 and d5. That is what I have been using since start.
Italian game for white. Italian game for black (if possible).
Jul 13, 2022
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GeorgeWyhv14 wrote:
Italian game for white. Italian game for black (if possible).
Yesterday in two games in the opening of the Fegatello Attack, I got the accuracy of the game 100%. I analyzed the first one and my opponent made a fatal blunder, moving his king to g8 after a check with my queen to f3.
And in the second game, my opponent played correctly until he counterattacked my queen with the move Nc6-Nd4, after a dvp move, op got a stothered checkmate on the d6 square.
I don't anaalyzed the second one, but i know the result sure..
Jul 13, 2022
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#11
PawnTsunami wrote:
You do not need to worry about openings. Just follow opening principles and you will pick up the positional ideas as you go.
What if I play the London System, the Greco Gambit, the Urusov Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Scotch Game and the Dutch Defense? These openings require certain knowledge, without them you can easily get a losing position or a mating attack in the short term.
Jul 13, 2022
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#12
JinxklyTheOpossum wrote:
white: LONDON SYSTEM ( this is my favorite because it does not have complicated main lines since it's a setup based openings. It's also a bit hard to play against because it's a solid opening. I won many games with it. )
I'm sorry, but I better know the defense against this opening. It is played so often that I prevent 2. Bf4
with the Erglund Gambit 1.d4 e5. In most cases, White's position is won, but it's still interesting to play like this
Jul 13, 2022
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#13
Cringe3752 wrote:
PawnTsunami wrote:
You do not need to worry about openings. Just follow opening principles and you will pick up the positional ideas as you go.
What if I play the London System, the Greco Gambit, the Urusov Gambit, the Evans Gambit, the Scotch Game and the Dutch Defense? These openings require certain knowledge, without them you can easily get a losing position or a mating attack in the short term.
Against other beginners, the amount of theory known by both players will be extremely small and most of the time you will find yourself in a decent position just by following general opening principles.
Jai4chess skrev:
I like the Sicilian, a nice trap I like:
Why would white trade of the knight like that?
I keep my knight on d4 when I play white.
Jul 13, 2022
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#16
Jai4chess wrote:
I like the Sicilian, a nice trap I like:
No reason to take the knight on c6 at that point and e5 is just terrible. Both of those moves violate not only opening principles but also the spirit of the Open Sicilian from the White side.
Jai4chess wrote:
JinxklyTheOpossum wrote:
Black (against 1.e4) : Caro-Kann Defense
He said no closed positions
I'm fine with the caro kann, it isn't that closed when black plays c5
"My 1st word"
Jul 13, 2022
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#19
Start with the Italian. Play through all of Greco’s games that are the Italian. There are not many. Learn them well. Then, look at Morphy’s.
https://www.chess.com/explorer?color=white&playername=Gioachino%20Greco
Jul 13, 2022
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#20
Ziryab wrote:
Start with the Italian. Play through all of Greco’s games that are the Italian. There are not many. Learn them well. Then, look at Morphy’s.
https://www.chess.com/explorer?color=white&playername=Gioachino%20Greco
Maybe on this site: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chess.pl?pid=72111&playercomp=white&opening=C50+C53-C54&title=Gioachino%20Greco%20playing%20the%20Giuoco%20Piano%20as%20White ?
Hi all! I'm pretty good at open opening schemes, but closed openings are hard for me. Can you recommend me an opening repertoire that can develop an understanding of positional play and still have some combination ideas (traps)?
Openings for both colors, please.