What Is The Best Chess Opening for a 1000 elo?

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Atlas_Slept

As White, what is recommended to play? Im not looking for statistics of wins or anything, because people of all different levels contribute, but as a good, solid opening, with little room to be trapped, and not be closed in is what Im looking for.

DimaCrotalus

bishop's opening, queen's gambit, ruy lopez

Deadmanparty

If you want solid and locked down positions stuck behind pawns but safe, you can try the C3 Colle system.

MonstrousReprobate

There's a great video with iirc Levy and some other youtube chess person (Hikaru maybe? Idk) doing a tier list of openings for beginners. I took notes from it on the ones that sounded like they suited me, it's really useful!

Bramblyspam

At 1000, the only opening you need to know is scholar's mate. And the only reason you need to know it is so you don't fall for it.

Forget about openings. Focus on following general principles instead. They'll serve you much better, particularly since your opponents will take the game out of book by move 5 anyway.

blackmore324

Openings don't matter. Just develop your pieces while making sure you don't blunder anything or fall for an opening trap. Just stick with an opening that seems intuitive and simple to play for you, whatever that may be.

SoupSailor
The Vienna game worked really well for me at that level and I’d highly recommend it. There’s a bunch of videos on it but it’s pretty simple with not a lot of variations which makes it perfect for 1000 lvl.