Best opening for me

New theories of the universe are always welcome. But if they involve an exceptionally large number of turtles, most educated listeners will not give audience to them.

Possibly the greatest book, on the subject of turtle stacking, ever written.

My rating is 1263; and I sure am flying.

hey man... tone it down a little... we're all friends right :D :D

also its not techincally correct grammar to say "hate it when people spit in your face when you ask for advice liek you are doing now" contains a misplaced modifier "like you are doing now"; it should be closer to the phrase you are modifying...

and no. I am not an english teacher

This post is months old and now you post it on it about grammar. Come on now; don't bore me to death with your stupid grammar.

dont think to much about the rating when it comes to advice:) everyone knows something here and there. my mainopening is the zukertort and a guy 300 points lower than me teached it to me

seeing that you obviously follow simple gramatical punctuation, I am improving your skills as a better writer with each comment I make.

obviously I'm not boring you, because you still take the time to answer each and every single post people make :D

Just because I reply to your post does not mean that I am not bored of it.

Are you blind or are you blind? I say I am only showing my opening not the moves that the opponent is going to play.

Are you blind?

hey rapidfire, I typed your name into google and I came up with several gaming sites... you a gamer? if so what games you play?

Previously I have played several games including RuneScape, World Of Warcraft, TribalWars and Kings Of Chaos but I don't play any of them anymore.

cool. did you give them up for chess?

Basically yes, I got bored of all the other online games.

Please explain what you mean by "at your level"?

Hello, I just read this, and although i'm no expert, i can give you some basic advice about openings.

The first thing we can notice by seing your first post is that Black does not answer. Intentionnal or not, it proves that you do not seem to mind what your opponent answer and, what more important is, that you do not mind about the "time" factor in the opening. Another point is you always put a bishop in fianchetto.

I suppose you ponder each of your opponent replies and defend against threats (if you always play the same 15 first moves whatever the other guy do, you will soon been checkmated !), so i will not talk about it.

Other people talked about knights developpment. They are true, the knights shall be developped in c3 (f3) instead of d2 (e2) if you have the choice.

Other points you can improve : principally pawn structure. The best position for pawns is to be side by side, just as at the beginning, because :

1 - no ennemy knight can sit in the hole you've made yourself, as it could happen in c3 in the 3d diagram of your first post (the other weakness in this diagram is that the c4 bishop has no retreat because of his pawns, which can be lethal if attacked by black pawns).

2 - they cannot be blocked - thus, if one of them is threatend, he can just advance and be protected by the other, after the opponent decided which one he will attack.

Otherwise, here are some general advice (remember - in some position, it might be good not to follow them, always adapt) :

Develop knights before bishops, because knights have only one, or two, good squares to go, while bishops have 2-3 squares, and you should wait to see the opponent's  pawns to choose.

If you are late in development, close the game (i.e. don't exchange pawns) and catch up ; if your opponent is, open the game (i.e. open lines - files and diagonals - by exchanging pawns) and try something : the time factor is more important in open than in closed positions.

The motto "In case of doubt, play a pawn move" is the exact opposite of what you should do ! ("think ten times more before playing a pawn than before any other move" - Tarrasch)

The material, the time (development advantage) and the space (area your pieces control) are the three components of chess. None is always superior to others, they can be trade, and an opponent that gives a pawn might wait some superiority in time or space - evaluate it before taking the pawn !

You may want to develop your queen knight to c3 OR d2 depending on the situation. This seems like a more fluid setup to implement rather than the three you have shown. Maybe follow-up moves after the sequence of moves I've projected would include Nc3, Qd2 Rac1 & Rfd1...

Hope this is helpful. If you're looking for tips beyond this, I've included 10 in the following video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m--LuusPfwA

Best Wishes... ~Jerry~ :)