Any Opening Suggestions For A 1000-1200 Player?

I've been hovering around the 1000-1200 mark on chess.com for quite a while now, but just recently i have been starting to get more competitive. I've purchased a diamond membership, and I occasionally go to some local tournaments, to start to grow a rating outside of chess.com. 

Personally, I like openings where there are many lines that I can try to memorize, letting me go as far into the game as I can while playing the best moves (Also, getting to the endgame early would be good, I'm not very confident in middle games). I have seen IM Perunovic's video on the Danish Gambit, as well as watching many videos, such as the Urusov Gambit from the 'Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis'. 

I'm also a huge fan of gambits and have adapted to a really aggressive playing style because of it, consisting in many sacrifices and giving up quite a bit of material for better positioning in the middle game.

If anyone could please suggest me some openings fitting these catagories for either white or black (or both), I would really appreciate it!

Thanks For Your Time!
~DeathTank

The basics of each phase of the game

Opening:

Follow the Opening principles:

1. Control the center squares – d4-e4-d5-e5

2. Develop your minor pieces toward the center – piece activity is the key

• Complete your development before moving a piece twice or starting an attack.

• Move pieces not pawns.

3. Castle

4. Connect your rooks

• By move 12, you should have connected your Rooks, or be about to do so.

Middle game:

When you have completed the Opening Principles, you are now at the middle game. Now you need to formulate a middle game plan. The middle game is a very complicated part of a chess game. A simple way to develop a middle game plan is to perform the following steps.

1. Scan your opponents 5^th, and 6^th ranks (3^rd, and 4^th if your black)

2. Look for weak pawns, and or weak squares.

• Weak pawns and squares are Pawns, and squares that cannot be defended by another Pawn.

• Knights are excellent pieces on weak squares.

• When deciding on weak squares, and weak Pawns to attack, the closer to the center the better

End game:

Start with the basics:

1. Learn basic mates – KQ vs. K, KR vs. K, KRR vs. K

2. Learn Opposition, and Key Squares

3. Learn basic King and Pawn endings

Pre Move Checklist:

1. Make sure all your pieces are safe.

2. Look for forcing move: Checks, captures, threats. You want to look at ALL forcing moves (even the bad ones) this will force you look at, and see the entire board.

3. If there are no forcing moves, you then want to remove any of your opponent’s pieces from your side of the board.

4. If your opponent doesn’t have any of his pieces on your side of the board, then you want to improve the position of your least active piece. 

Also:

You dont follow Opening Principles.

Youre hanging pieces.

Youre missing simple tactics.

Work on...tactics...tactics...tactics...and the bsics that i posted.  

But...since you feel youre an "agressive player" you will ignore the advice, and memorize openings.  We will see you back here later, when you ask the follow up question:

"Im memorizing openings, but still hanging pieces.  Do i need to study openings more?"

If you're interested in improving, don't run away from your weak areas.

Also, memorization only postpones the feeling of confusion. The goals should be to learn about: strategy, tactics, endgames, and play over annotated games.

Openings you can get by with principals and trying out whatever you've seen in the games you play through. Watching videos on openings is fine, but that shouldn't be your main expenditure of study time.

https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Chessboard-21st-Century-Richard/dp/1936490218

https://www.amazon.com/Back-Basics-Tactics-ChessCafe-Chess/dp/1888690348

But to answer your question, I would recommend classical openings for example play the Ruy/Spanish as white and black. Play the QGD as black. Play 1...e5 against the 1.c4. The advance for the french and caro, for the sicilian alapin (or moscow + rossilimo), 2...Bc5 for king's gamibt.

"... I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas. ..." - GM John Nunn (2006)

For someone seeking help with choosing openings, I usually bring up Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014).
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
I believe that it is possible to see a fair portion of the beginning of Tamburro's book by going to the Mongoose Press site.
https://www.mongoosepress.com/excerpts/OpeningsForAmateurs%20sample.pdf
Perhaps DeathTank3 would also want to look at Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
"Each player should choose an opening that attracts him. Some players are looking for a gambit as White, others for Black gambits. Many players that are starting out (or have bad memories) want to avoid mainstream systems, others want dynamic openings, and others want calm positional pathways. It’s all about personal taste and personal need.
For example, if you feel you’re poor at tactics you can choose a quiet positional opening (trying to hide from your weakness and just play chess), or seek more dynamic openings that engender lots of tactics and sacrifices (this might lead to more losses but, over time, will improve your tactical skills and make you stronger)." - IM Jeremy Silman (January 28, 2016)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/picking-the-correct-opening-repertoire
http://chess-teacher.com/best-chess-openings/
https://www.chess.com/blog/TigerLilov/build-your-opening-repertoire
https://www.chess.com/blog/CraiggoryC/how-to-build-an-opening-repertoire
https://www.chess.com/article/view/learning-an-opening-to-memorize-or-understand
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-perfect-opening-for-the-lazy-student
https://www.chess.com/article/view/3-ways-to-learn-new-openings
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-understand-openings
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/9035.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627110453/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen169.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/9029.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/Shop/Images/Pdfs/7277.pdf

The Reti opening.

"... If you want to play competitively, then you must develop an opening repertoire. ..." - GM Patrick Wolff (1997)

DeathTank3 -

Several suggestions for you....

For the best treatment of fundamental chess openings principles...

"Discovering Chess Openings..." by John Emms...

https://www.amazon.com/Discovering-Chess-Openings-Building-Principles/dp/1857444191/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1491371946&sr=1-1&keywords=discovering+chess+openings

for a gambit repertoire...

Alterman Gambit Guide by Boris Alterman...

This is a 3-volume series in which the author offers a select gambit repertoire for both White and Black.  The treatment of the gambits covered is quite instructive. The first volume covers White gambits (G.) as follows: Danish G., Urusov G., Cochran G., Evans G., Morra G., and the Milner-Barry G..  Several other openings are covered including the Morphy Attack vs the Two Knights Defense, the Max Lange Attack and the Panov-Botvinnik Attack.  The second volume features Black Gambits against 1.d4 and 1.c4, primarily the Benko G., Blumenfeld G. and Vaganian G..  The third volume continues with Black Gambits against 1.e4 and 1.f4 - The Marshall Attack, Hector G., Traxler Counterattack, Frankenstein-Dracula G., Falkbeer Counter G., and From's G.  See also "Open Gambits" by George Botterill. 

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_fb_1_13?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=alterman+gambit+guide&sprefix=Alterman+gamb%2Ctoys-and-games%2C198&crid=25VFAX7PIMDXW

A site devoted to gambits - http://www.ianchessgambits.com/

The following is book is excellent, very instructive, and features a dynamic opening repertoire for White beginning with 1.e4 (note - no gambits here)...

"My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White..." by Vincent Moret...

https://www.amazon.com/First-Chess-Opening-Repertoire-White/dp/9056916335/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491267830&sr=8-1&keywords=my+first+chess+opening+repertoire+for+white

 Otherwise...

Good Chess Opening Books for Beginners and Beyond....

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/good-chess-opening-books-for-beginners-and-beyond

I have to say. Urk showed me the Caro-Kann and I haven't looked back. If there was only a Caro-Kann type defence against D4 I would be really happy.

You often dont get your bishop out in the Slav which is nasty and one of the reasons I experimented with it sometime ago. The  whole pawn structure is very different you have to contend with a lot more minority attacks against you. While as black with the Kann you often get to initiate them and a strong queenside attack.

The slav is just so passive, Im not claiming that the Caro kann is the most exciting opening quite the  reverse by a very long way. But it is both solid and gives some positional advantages to black which can make for an interesting game. The slav is just passive.

So is there anything similar to Caro-Kann against D4 then SerBrus? 

Try the modern defense:

There is the Gurgenidze Variation 1.d4 g6 2.e4 c6 which has some similarities being a semi open defence like the caro kann. Main differences being the fianchettoed bishop (which is quite nice for creating threats to whites center).

Of course white doesnt have to play e4 its the most common response - both that I've seen in clubs, online and if memory serves the databases too. White alternative moves would be c4 - best to transpose into a KID (whole new system but one of my favorites),  or g3 Nf3 which will in most cases transpose either into a KID or some weird indian system that nobody knows and you just have to play chess.

But I digress the real attraction of the Gurgenidze Variation is the sneaky possibility of transposition directly into the Gurgenidze System of the Caro-Kann.

Via: 1. d4 g6 2.e4 c6 3.Nc3 d5

Normally it is reached via: 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6

against e4 I suggest playing any sort of proper e5 opening, against d4 I suggest playing the slav where you take on c4 and play bf5 at one point (maybe it was called the dutch variation? I can't really remember) and as white play both e4 and d4

Thank you, I will look into this. 

"... For beginning players, [Discovering Chess Openings] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf

"... In the middlegame and especially the endgame you can get a long way through relying on general principles and the calculation of variations; in the opening you can go very wrong very quickly if you don't know what ideas have worked and what haven't in the past. It has taken hundreds of years of trial and error by great minds like Alekhine and, in our day, Kasparov to reach our current knowledge of the openings. ..." - GM Neil McDonald (2001)

"... Before moving on to a discussion of specifics, here are a few general thoughts on opening play. Note that I propose a few principles rather than provide a whole list of outmoded opening dos and don'ts. I feel that such a list inhibits creativity in the opening, and encourages beginners to play like automatons, almost never deviating from the Giuoco Piano (the chess equivalent of 'Chopsticks' on the piano). ..." - FM Graham Burgess in The Mammoth Book of Chess

Eh, that's pretty misleading I think.

Give someone pawn odds in the opening, and it isn't worth much.
Give a 1200 rated player pawn odds in certain endgames, and they can beat Carlsen.

Mistakes with reduced material matter much more... although sure, if you're trying to play some sharp theoretical line, you can lose right away if you don't know what you're doing. The answer then, of course, is to not play sharp openings if you don't know what you're doing. You can play colle and london crap all the way to a title, the opening doesn't need to be a big deal unless you make it one.

Where is it advocated to make the opening "a big deal"? Is one going to learn about the colle, the london, or avoiding sharp openings by doing tactics drills?

Should players learn openings? Sure, it's one of the main areas of study.

But for openings to actually make sense you need to know strategy, tactics, and endgames. So in the beginning, sure, memorize a few moves (not 10 or more). The moves wont make much sense, but that and the opening principals will be enough while you collect all the basics in the other areas. 

Then you can go back and add to opening knowledge, then add to all other areas, etc. It's a cycle, If done right, sure, you can even start with openings. There's a lot of negative feedback because people like the OP ask questions like "give me an opening that always makes me win" then they try to memorize 20 moves of a dozen different lines. That's the wrong way for sure.