If you're begineer intermediate, openings don't really mean that much. When you are about lets say under 1800 in rating, openings don't mean much. You rather want to focus more on the endgame and middlegame. Of course you need to know the BASIC opening principles, like control the center, develop your pieces, castle and so on. Yes, it is always good to know some of the basic openings, like Queen Gambits Declined, Ruy Lopez, The Spanish Game, and so on.
besides your strong opening repertoire, how many lines do you need to know of other openings to get
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May 18, 2015
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I absolutely disagree with the idea that players under 1800 shouldn't focus on openings. Where ever that idea came from is proposterous. We don't allow children to run a mok either just because they're younger. We give them simplified instructions that are improved upon with time.
New players SHOULD learn openings that exemplify basic opening principles such as the Giuoco Piano, the Italian game or The four knights opening. I would not recommend the Sicilian Defense, Caro Kann or the French Defense, which are dense with theory.
Here's an article that's written by a chess.com player on Building a Chess Opening Repertoire. This one is for beginners but he also wrote an article for Intermediate and Advanced Player Respertoires. Good luck and keep learning your openings....Cheers
Beginner Repertoire
http://www.chess.com/blog/X_PLAYER_J_X/chess-repertoire
Thanks for your kind responses. I just want to know the basics of several openings to be prepared in tournaments and start from there, and the try to select two or three openings as a base. I'm trying too hard?
Prologue1 wrote:
If you're begineer intermediate, openings don't really mean that much. When you are about lets say under 1800 in rating, openings don't mean much. You rather want to focus more on the endgame and middlegame. Of course you need to know the BASIC opening principles, like control the center, develop your pieces, castle and so on. Yes, it is always good to know some of the basic openings, like Queen Gambits Declined, Ruy Lopez, The Spanish Game, and so on.
This is the most ignorant post that i ve ever seen in my life.
Playing in this principles will get you stuck in deep t and you will wonder why you didnt achive anything in 30 years after you study "so hard"!
Middle game and end game is useless if your opponent will get advantage of you because u put your pieces in "ok" square instead of the right one, which leads to lose in 10-15 moves making your endgame studies completely useless.
I'm starting to study general aspects of openings, I'm a beginner intermediate, besides your strong opening repertoire, how many lines do you know or need to know of other openings to get well to middle game?