What are the first openings a beginner should learn for each color?

I'm having a little trouble learning openings and just want to know the easiest ones.

E4 Italian game or D4 queen's gambit

I think a new player should probably decide if they are going to try being a 1.e4 or 1.d4 player and learn (mainly by just playing games I think, rather than books) the sort of positions they get from playing the most common sort of openings that follow - so for 1.e4 things like the Italian, Spanish, maybe scotch, 4 knights, but also awareness of Sicilian, french, Caro... Though not in huge detail... For 1.d4 queens gambit, KID, maybe the popular systems like the London. And as black v 1.e4 I think they should go 1...e5 and v1.d4 probably 1....d5..... Keep it classic before deciding to specialise in anything in particular. That's what I wish id done when new to the game anyway, so that's what I would advise others to do

When I say should decide if they are going to TRY being a 1.e4 or 1.d4 player I obviously mean just initially.... They may play it for a while then decide they wish to try something else - or they may decide to stay with it, they shouldn't stick with it just because it's the one they started with, but it might work out that they get positions they like and there's no reason to change

Open games (e4-e5) with both colours, and preferably some romantic stuff with White, like the King's Gambit or Evans Gambit. so you develop a feel for advantage in development and initiative. That is how the kids start in Eastern European countries. 

Deciding whether you are an E4 or D4 player comes much later. As a beginner, you don't need to worry about your style. 

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"I'm having a little trouble learning openings and just want to know the easiest ones."
++ You do not need to learn openings. Just develop pieces into play, control the center and castle your king to safety O-O.
Most recommended are to defend 1 e4 e5 and 1 d4 d5 as black and to open 1 e4 as white.

Hey Flameus52,

In my humble opinion, commit yourself to learning opening principles first...to the point that the principles are a habit. This is an EXCELLENT beginner's level article about that.

https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-principles-of-the-opening

The beginner lessons on Opening Principles are awesome also (may need subscription though)

https://www.chess.com/lessons/opening-principles

My suggestion is to re-read the article, before playing your first game of the day, for at least five days.

Chess.com recommends these following tournament openings for beginners:

    The Ruy Lopez or Spanish Game
    The Giuoco Piano or Italian Game
    The Four Knights Opening
    The Two Knights or "Fried Liver"
    The Queen's Gambit Accepted
    The Queen's Gambit Declined
    The Queen's Gambit Declined: Slav and/or Semi-Slav

Lastly, when you decide upon the first opening you'd like to become more familiar with be sure to check the "Openings" section of chess.com There's TERRIFIC information contained there on most openings. Make sure to check the "Opening" section of lichess.org too!

Good Luck!

Yeah so what i'm doing right now is I started using the london system a few days ago for white, I also use the italian game a little bit and it's worked so far, but for black I tried using the Sicilian and it worked ok but it doesn't really seem like it's for beginners. I think my two white openings could still use some work but I can't find a simple enough black opening to learn.

Losing is a part of chess...accept it. I remember a time avoiding e5 as Black because of being victimized by Scholar's Mate. A little study and some persistence got me through that though. You don't need to know a bunch of positions if you respond to e4 with e5 especially since your opponent won't know a bunch of positions either however, when you fall into an opening trap more than once...learn the principles of the trap and the principles of how to refute the trap. If refuted properly, many opening traps lead to an early positional advantage for the refuter....and at your level (and even mine) if you refute a trap adequately most opponents don't have a plan if the trap fails.

There are close to 300,000 Masters games on chess.com that start 1. e4 e5

Why?

1...e5 is Black's classical response to 1.e4. By mirroring White's move, Black grabs an equal share of the center and scope to develop some pieces particularly Black's Queen and dark-squared Bishop. 1...e5 is one of the few moves that directly interferes with White's plan of playing d4. 

I preface this with saying that I don't love the "chessbrah" style of fist pumping, dance music dude-bro channel that they have. But! and it's a BIG BUT, Aman Hambleton's "Habits" streams on their youtube extra channel is really the best I've seen anywhere (it's a lot to watch btw, and worth watching from the beginning (I think 400 elo, don't skip ahead)).

You adhere to rules, follow what he does, and instead of learning specific openings to use, he eventually teaches you ways to open as an answer to openings that your opponents use. Meaning, if they do the kings gambit, Vienna or Englund, you learn to refute it, and just re-watch that clip until you can commit it to memory. 

This way, you're not learning openings for yourself, you're more learning to answer how your opponent opens, and just play solid chess. He starts going over refuting specific openings around 1000-1100 which is where I am in Rapid. 

There are now 2-3 openings that I'm happy to see from my opponents because I know that I'll get out of the opening stage safely and then can just focus on not making any blunders. It's really changed how I play for the better. I'm now using the London but applying his rules and logic and it helps. 

Here is the youtube link, although I understand if people would rather search for it themselves instead of clicking a random link.. lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8pZbhjL-fQ&list=PL8N8j2e7RpPnpqbISqi1SJ9_wrnNU3rEm

Chess Openings Resources for Beginners and Beyond...

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell/openings-resources-for-beginners-and-beyond

https://www.chess.com/blog/RussBell

For beginners and low elo players I like...

For white:

1. The London System

2. The Vienna Game

3. The Queen's Gambit (mostly QGD)

4. The Scotch Game

5. The Centre Game

Higher level players might also add the Ruy Lopez, Catalan etc and all the variations...

For black it depends, you can look up lines for white on how to play against them like the Tarrasch against QGD or the Slav etc.

I think the French Defence and Caro-Kann are probably good ones to start.

Intermediates maybe Dutch Defence, Nimzo-Indian or KID etc, higher players would maybe try the Grunfeld or Sicilian Defences, or learn specific defences against openings like the Berlin against the Ruy Lopez and so on.

Play 1. e4 as White and the Italian, and/or a gambit (Evans, Kings, Danish) to learn to attack.

1... e5 as Black.

For black I've picked the Caro-kann, for white the Queens Gambit and sometimes the London, are these good ones to stick to even after raising my elo a bit?

Queens Gambit

This.

For white:

Scotch Game/Scotch Gambit
The Queens Gambit 
London System

Avoid Ruy Lopez and Giuco Piano at all costs imo. too many variations for you to remember.
For black:

King's indian defense (works against anything)

None of them. Focus on piece safety.

Not if you actually pay attention though.

Wayward queen attack as white, elephant gambit as black