The Top Ten Openings to know?

I would like some feedback on what are the first 10 most important openings to be competent in, beyond the two move openings like Kings or Queens Pawn. Thanks!

Top 1 qweens pawn opening

Caro-kann

Kings pawn

But I asked for others rather than king or queens pawn, or at least explain why.

THE TOP OPENING TO BEGINNERS IS WAYERD QUEEN attack, haha .using kings pawn it is the most superb and worst, second fritz trap then, stafford it is dangerous, then aborting that's it .............🙃🤪

Ten openings isn’t even close to half a full repertoire. For example, since I play 1. d4, I have to know:

1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 Rubinstein French

1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 Winawer French

1. d4 e6 2. e4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 Classical French

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 Slav

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 QGD

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 c5 Tarrasch

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 e6 Semi-Slav

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 QGA

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 Benoni

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Bb4 BID

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 QID

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 Grunfeld

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 KID

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 b5 Benko Gambit

And that’s only against the three most popular first moves, and that’s only out to move three. If you play 1. e4 it’s way worse, and it’s usually worse as Black due to needing to know sidelines as well.

The Mexican defense / dark knight tango

Why would you want to know 10 openings? What for?

Forget openings. Your problem is that you are throwing pieces away. Try to minimize one-move blunders, that's the only thing that matters.

Example game:

https://www.chess.com/game/live/99642072071?username=spinecruncher

ROFL - hanging the queen and openings are his worry?

A beginner should be working on endgames first, then tactics, then strategy, and only then openings.

After that, it is a matter of where your weakness is that the emphasis needs to be placed.

Acknowledging your weakness is another hurdle you must get over. My over the board rating may be 2000ish (USCF) but that doesn't make me 2000 strength in all aspects of the game. My openings and endgames are way stronger than that. My strategic play is right around par with an expert. But I will be the first to tell you that I am tactically weak. More like that of a B player. You won't typically nail me in the first 10 to 15 moves, and if I get to an endgame with an equal or better position, you can almost forget winning unless I am in severe time trouble. But in that middlegame, all you need to do is nail me once on a bad move and it could be game over before the endgame even arrives.

Acknowledging your weaknesses and fixing them are far more important than some stupid top ten list of Openings. This is chess, not late night TV with David Letterman!

you're showing your age, Thrillerfan.

David Letterman lost a game to Kasparov. if I remember right, it was the Qe5+ variation of the Scandinavian. I have forgotten the sequence that Kasparov used to mate David but it was tactically gruesome!

Hi!

Here my list of the top 10 openings to be known by advanced players:

Ruy Lopez

Sicilian

French

Caro Kann

QGD

Slav

KID

QID

Nimzo

Gruenfeld

Good luck!

When my openings are closer to book I do better. But I enjoy faster games and I need to focus more on blunder checks before I move.

also maybe this is off topic, but are the better players seeing the pieces and variations in their heads? Like, to look at the board and see several moves ahead; doesn't that take a certain type of brain to be able to see in the minds eye the possible variations and outcomes that will sequence a possible move?

It doesn't take a certain type of brain, all humans can do it. And it gets easier as you get better at chess.

Well like in the movie I saw, Queens Gambit, it showed how she had this visual capacity to see the board and its pieces several moves ahead. It is hard for me ti have a minds eye on what the board looks like three moves ahead. Then I know Bobby Fisher was compulsive about learning everything, studying all the science and art of chess as an intellectual would approach it, training training training, learning learning learning. But I wonder if he also had that minds eye where he could see the board and all its pieces 15 moves ahead. This is actually something I would like to know more about and maybe I should post the question in the GD forum.

I will be the first to tell you I am old.

In 469 days, I will be eligible for senior events, AARP, senior menu in certain restaurants, etc.