What are good openings for beginners?

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HorkstowGrange

What are good openings for beginners?

Juice_WRLD999999999999

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PandasAwesome

I made a tier list for openings for beginners, and basically, openings I love.

MarkoHoog

Sometimes you could use the wayward queen attack however after a bit people will realise it more.

Kadenstarr

Somewhere Gothamchess cried out about the Portuguese gambit being put in F teir

Chuck639

I started the game with the Kings Gambit and McDonnell Attack just for the shear entertainment and decisive games. You’ll learn to attack and defend very quickly. Games don’t last long either which is great for getting more games in a day. It also plays well against all of black’s common responses such as the French, Caro Kann and Sicilian which I saw often playing e4.

I was scoring a 58% win rate which isn’t bad considering a fraction of my losses were due to flagging and opening blunders as I was learning. Rose to 1280 blitz quickly within 6 weeks until I went on a tilt and plummet hence, I agree with others on choosing least the solid tier openings.

As black I prefer Sicilian, Kings Indian Defence, English Defense and Englund Gambit.

Now I play c4 to avoid all of blacks main pet lines in d4 and e4 theories.

gchkchanrayjadon

Which opening is better, the Ruy Lopez or the Italian?

Tommy_the_detective

if white:

the Reti opening(1:Nf3) can be developed into lots of different openings(Indian, Queen's pawn, etc) and can be very flexible, but before that, you might want to know the Queens gambit(1: d4,d5 2:c4 first since it gains fast center domination if accepted for white.

if black:

if the opponent does e4, just respond with the Sicilian defense(1:e4,c5) or French defense(1:e4,e6) would be good, but if the opponent does d4, just respond with indian(1: d4, Nf6).

 

Tommy_the_detective
gchkchanrayjadon 写道:

Which opening is better, the Ruy Lopez or the Italian?

the Ruy Lopez(aka Spanish) is more aggressive, and the Italian is more calm, so it depends on what type of player you are

Forgetful_Guy
PandasAwesome wrote:

I made a tier list for openings for beginners, and basically, openings I love.

 

Why you did not put Vienna Gambit?

It's literally one of the best gambits for low level players out there as you will have a massive lead in development if they accept the gambit and beginners will ALWAYS accept the Vienna gambit

 

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