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Best chess opening?
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Dec 31, 2020
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#4
Yeah, do not listen to bozos and morons like post 4.
Posts 2 and 3 give you far more legitimate advice. Different openings work for different people.
There is no absolute best opening, but there are a FINITE number of good and mediocre openings, and the rest are bad. Finding the best opening for yourself is like dating women!
For example, "best" for White is either e4, d4, c4, or Nf3 on move 1. Nobody can argue against those 4 moves. If anyone says 1.e4 is way better than 1.d4 or 1.Nf3 is way better than 1.c4, they are getting their own personal opinions so tied up in a wad that they view the chess world way too narrowly. It would be like looking for a woman and saying she must be White, Blonde, exactly 5 foot 6 inches, under 100 pounds, exactly 23 years old, Lutheran Missouri Sinead, and eats Froot Loops for breakfast every morning, and does not see that there are many nice women out there that do not fit that mold!
Same goes for chess - broaden the mind and realize that there is no best, but there might be a best for you, and there are many bad apples out there, just like women. 1.g4 is like dating that drunken high school drop out that is now selling drugs and robbing convenience stores!
So stick with the good ones, but they are equally good:
White: 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3
B vs e4: 1...e5, Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann
B vs d4: QGA/QGD/Slav/Semi-Slav, Kings Indian, Nimzo/Queen's Indian, Benko/Benoni, Grunfeld, Dutch.
Like I said, the good ones are finite, and lots of bad apples, but no one is best, just like women!
It depends on what you're trying to do. If you want a closed game with limited attacking lines, usually 1. d4 is good. If you want an open game with lots of attacking lines, 1. e4 is good, as is 1. Nf3.
Generally, open games will help a player at your level improve more quickly, but they can lead to disasters in the opening if your opponent knows the opening better than you.
I tend to discourage young players from trying to play "safe" positional openings simply because their tactics haven't developed enough for them to know how to hold together those positional setups. Even the most closed position contains pawn weaknesses that a strong, patient attacker can exploit.
Chess Openings Resources for Beginners and Beyond...
https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/openings-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond
ThrillerFan wrote:
Yeah, do not listen to bozos and morons like post 4.
Posts 2 and 3 give you far more legitimate advice. Different openings work for different people.
There is no absolute best opening, but there are a FINITE number of good and mediocre openings, and the rest are bad. Finding the best opening for yourself is like dating women!
For example, "best" for White is either e4, d4, c4, or Nf3 on move 1. Nobody can argue against those 4 moves. If anyone says 1.e4 is way better than 1.d4 or 1.Nf3 is way better than 1.c4, they are getting their own personal opinions so tied up in a wad that they view the chess world way too narrowly. It would be like looking for a woman and saying she must be White, Blonde, exactly 5 foot 6 inches, under 100 pounds, exactly 23 years old, Lutheran Missouri Sinead, and eats Froot Loops for breakfast every morning, and does not see that there are many nice women out there that do not fit that mold!
Same goes for chess - broaden the mind and realize that there is no best, but there might be a best for you, and there are many bad apples out there, just like women. 1.g4 is like dating that drunken high school drop out that is now selling drugs and robbing convenience stores!
So stick with the good ones, but they are equally good:
White: 1.e4, 1.d4, 1.c4, 1.Nf3
B vs e4: 1...e5, Sicilian, French, Caro-Kann
B vs d4: QGA/QGD/Slav/Semi-Slav, Kings Indian, Nimzo/Queen's Indian, Benko/Benoni, Grunfeld, Dutch.
Like I said, the good ones are finite, and lots of bad apples, but no one is best, just like women!
+1 lol
Joking aside, Queens gambit is a nice opening for white while French for black. I say this because these are my lead favorite to go agaisnt. I personally really like the Vienna and Sicilian but I wouldn’t study the Sicilian till you get to 1400+. At this level don’t worry about memorizing hundreds of lines, learn the ideas of an opening such as where should your pieces go and what’s the central ideas.
Caro kann is also good and you could start playing it now will little study.
Owen's defense. Ok maybe this sounds retarded but listen for a second.
byyb137 wrote:
Owen's defense. Ok maybe this sounds retarded but listen for a second.
Ok, it seems like an good opening as the bishop is attacking the rook at a1, thanks for sharing.
Moonwarrior_1 wrote:
Joking aside, Queens gambit is a nice opening for white while French for black. I say this because these are my lead favorite to go agaisnt. I personally really like the Vienna and Sicilian but I wouldn’t study the Sicilian till you get to 1400+. At this level don’t worry about memorizing hundreds of lines, learn the ideas of an opening such as where should your pieces go and what’s the central ideas.
If white plays queens gambit, I will counter it with Slav
Jan 8, 2021
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#14
I would recommend the Nakhmanson Gambit as there are a lot of winning opportunities and is a draw if black finds the very hard to find best line (this is an opening for white that comes out of the Italian Game after Nf6). This opening actually beat Magnus Carlsen, and Vampire Chicken (a human streamer) used it to beat Stockfish 12 (latest version of Stockfish which is the best chess computer). The reason why you may not have heard of it is because it's a new opening that came out in 2020. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't like playing gambits, because you do need to sac, even though you get it back later. If you want a full course on the Nakhmanson Gambit, I'd recommend watching my 15 minute video that explains every single lines. If you prefer to watch someone else, then I can also give you some videos from other people, though I don't know anyone except for me who did a full walkthrough in one video. Here's the video if you want to watch it:
London op
isjatt wrote:
London op
Unless the two Kings each defend their pawn with the Knight, there is no way that london can happen but thks anyway
Chess_Night5030 wrote:
I would recommend the Nakhmanson Gambit as there are a lot of winning opportunities and is a draw if black finds the very hard to find best line (this is an opening for white that comes out of the Italian Game after Nf6). This opening actually beat Magnus Carlsen, and Vampire Chicken (a human streamer) used it to beat Stockfish 12 (latest version of Stockfish which is the best chess computer). The reason why you may not have heard of it is because it's a new opening that came out in 2020. I wouldn't recommend it if you don't like playing gambits, because you do need to sac, even though you get it back later. If you want a full course on the Nakhmanson Gambit, I'd recommend watching my 15 minute video that explains every single lines. If you prefer to watch someone else, then I can also give you some videos from other people, though I don't know anyone except for me who did a full walkthrough in one video. Here's the video if you want to watch it:
Woah, many thks
Jan 13, 2021
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#18
Pick an opening you like and learn it well. Any standard opening is fine and the difference in win% amongst them is tiny. What matters more is that you know the opening better than your opponent does, and you know the basic plans of the opening.
So pick an opening—any opening—and stick with and study it. You won’t get better just because you picked a different opening that is “better.”
So pick an opening—any opening—and stick with and study it. You won’t get better just because you picked a different opening that is “better.”
The article in post #2 seems very generic and offers little useful information. How are the Sicilian, French, Slav, and even the Ruy Lopez are good for beginners when I have heard master level players and experienced coaches say these are precisely NOT what a beginner should play (though there is mixed advice on whether a beginner should play the Ruy Lopez)?
OK, I recently became level 900,and I know that now I would have to face against tougher opponents, so before playing I would like to ask, WHAT IS THE BEST CHESS OPENING and how to counter them. Thanks!