That is something that we need a perspective on how you play. We can't exactly tell you what opening to play if we don't know what your strengths and weaknesses are.
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For example, I prefer to be flexible and attack at some point, so I play the Najdorf and the Ruy Lopez. For someone who prefers a calm game, the Queen's gambit might be a good choice. But it is all relative to how you play.
The best for chess improvement are technically the most complex as they would provide a wide array of positions for you to learn from. And that is what I do, but it is unsuitable for a beginner as they are super complex.
So it is up to you to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Some of the more commonly recommended openings for beginners are the Caro Kann against 1. e4, Italian as white, and 1. d4 d5 as black.
But experiment: I never found I liked the Najdorf until I tried it. You will find the opening best for you by experimentation.
Simplest and best defend 1 e4 e5 and 1 d4 d5 as black and open 1 e4 as white.
One beginner to another, study the Ponziani opening. It gives you a super dense defense that punishes the opponents wreck less moves. Once you get around 800+ study the polish opening. It catches a ton of people off guard. I’ve used it to get from 400 to 1000 in this year.
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One beginner to another, study the Ponziani opening. It gives you a super dense defense that punishes the opponents wreck less moves. Once you get around 800+ study the polish opening. It catches a ton of people off guard. I’ve used it to get from 400 to 1000 in this year.
from personal experience, there's no guarantee that you will play a Ponziani from the white side. Black will have to bypass both the Petrov and the Phillidor. I like the Ponziani but there are richer positions for white after black plays 2...,Nc6 like the Ruy Lopez or the Italian game.
and yes, the Polish opening is very underrated. I play it routinely against 1900 to 2200 level players in daily games.
Dec 25, 2023
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stick with the e4 d4 c4 stuff and dont get into theory before 1200 but learn openings
Dec 25, 2023
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Hi!
Here a link to a post of mine where I make my suggestions on openings for beginners: https://www.chess.com/blog/maafernan/openings-for-beginners
Good luck!
For e4 you could do the ruy lopez or the italian
For d4 you could do the queen gambit or london
If you're black and white plays e4 mabye the sicillian but in the Sicilian white can catch you off guard. If white plays d4 then you could do the Indian
For d4 you could do the queen gambit or london
If you're black and white plays e4 mabye the sicillian but in the Sicilian white can catch you off guard. If white plays d4 then you could do the Indian
Dec 25, 2023
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IMO
When we are "too newbie" it doesn't matter "the best opening" and for ex. the Chessmaster program demonstrates this to us quite clearly because bots above 1100 give us pieces (they play in losing positions) then "they really start playing" and this allows us to understand that if our tactical level is too weak and we do not have a strong enough level in endgames, just the opening doesn' t matter because the opponents can play losing positions and still win or not lose.
So in short as "a newbie" we just play the basic principles of openings and we focus on the aspect of exploiting blunders, not making blunders, tactics and basic technique of winning endgames :
example as White :
1) e4 first is center contrôle by pions e and d if possible 1)...e5 2) Nf3 the base is development, it is first the Knights then Bishop then casteling and 2) Nf3 because the base is rather o-o than o-o-o 2)...Qe7 a weird move, I'm looking for an exploitable error, something tactical then if there is nothing I'm going to continue development 3) Nc3 c6 4) Bc4 d6 5) 0-0 the opening is finished, I played as simple as possible mechanically by applying the basic principles and the position obtained is not bad for White.
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