I don't know how to do openings

I honestly don't know how to start off a chess match with advantages. I mean, i learnt it before but I cannot make the moves for some reason. Can anyone help me?

Learn the italian easiest opening to learn
Or dont study openings just play for the center

queen takes f7 checkmate

@TeamB1ad3_Jensen said in #1:
> I honestly don't know how to start off a chess match with advantages. I mean, i learnt it before but I cannot make the moves for some reason. Can anyone help me?

Start some rapid, classical or even correspondence games to start a chess career, so that you have more thinking time and calculate the moves better.

Then choose an opening, the one which suits you the best:
-Something easy, reliable, and with very logical moves at a low level? The Scotch opening or the Italian
-Something savage, wild, impolitely aggressive and with a big attack that you could screw up with one simple inaccuracy? The King's gambit
-Something useful in bullet, annoying enough to be played against and you can premove the whole opening with it? The London System

These are opening suggestions for White that I experimented myself (not quite the London System). Now with the Black pieces. You should choose one defense against the King's pawn and the Queen's pawn and other weird stuff:
-My recommendations with Black against the King's pawn are: Caro-Kann defense, French defense, Scandi(navian) defense, Pirc defense. But of course if you want something else you're free
-Against the Queen's pawn: Dutch defense, King's Indian Defense, Queen's Gambit Declined (these are setup-based, which means you can play them against anything that white does except
-Against other weird stuff, just play a setup-based opening or just apply basic opening principles: Control the center, put 2 pawns in the center, develop your pieces, castle, don't bring your queen out early except if you play the Scandi, and DON'T MOVE YOUR F PAWN please.

for white, I play London. It's easy to get started in, there's lots of tricks in it, and there's a ton of great how to's out there from Eric Rosen, Levy Rosman, Ben Fingold, and Hanging Pawns (I can never spell his name right, S. Tomic).

For black, i usually play gambits -Stafford (dubious but fun), Portuguese, Benoni/Benko.

These are all pretty straightforward to play imo. But I mean, look at my rating, maybe I am not the best person for advice lol

With white Bishop Opening if you are an attacking player or London System if you are defensive.
With black Philidor's Defence and Queen's gambit declined.
Your opening memorisation will be reduced to minimum.

>I mean, i learnt it before but I cannot make the moves for some reason.

Do you mean that you are forgetting the lines you learned? It does take lots of games before you start feeling comfortable with specific openings. By the way, it's perfectly acceptable to come out of the opening without an advantage. My main goal in the opening is to survive and have a playable middle game where I have some kind of a plan.

I agree with the above comments about picking openings which are easy to understand. Easy to understand means easier to memorize. Look for "opening repertoire" chess books to get you started.

I've been playing for a long time and I'm still fixing holes in my repertoire. I also like to play bullet games to specifically improve my openings. Then analyze the games to see where I screwed up.

For many, a good starting point (for openings) would be: "... For beginning players, [the book, Discovering Chess Openings by GM Emms,] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
www.amazon.com/Discovering-Chess-Openings-Building-Principles/dp/1857444191?asin=1857444191&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
Some of us think that it can be useful to use books like First Steps: 1 e4 e5 and First Steps: Queen's Gambit as sources of games with explanations intended for those just starting to learn about an opening.
“... [First Steps: 1 e4 e5] is a fun and informative book. ...” (2018)
chesscafe.com/book-reviews/first-steps-1-e4-e5-by-john-emms/
www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7790.pdf
www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7652.pdf
Here are some books that set out to help the reader with sample games illustrating how White can play after 1 e4:
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White
www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9033.pdf
chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/vincent-moret/
Opening Repertoire 1 e4
www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7819.pdf
London and Colle books that are possibly of interest:
First Steps: The Colle and London System
www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-understand-openings
The Colle: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala (2013)
web.archive.org/web/20140627110453/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen169.pdf
"... Overall, I would advise most players to stick to a fairly limited range of openings, and not to worry about learning too much by heart. ... the average player only needs to know a limited amount about the openings he plays. Providing he understands the main aims of the opening, a few typical plans and a handful of basic variations, that is enough. ..." - FM Steve Giddins (2008)
"... If [your opening] book contains illustrative games, it is worth playing these over first ... I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas. ..." - GM John Nunn (2006)

I didn't know opening when I started playing, I just learned from mistakes and started to build a repertoire of my own. I have learned entire opening lines and have forgotten some due to simply I rarely get to play them due to their aggressive nature most people won't allow you to go down that path. Yet also, I recommend you find a common opening like Italian game and try study it. Don't try to remember the lines itself, just try to remember the patterns or ideas behind winning moves. If you get better start learning some tricky openings traps.

To be honest you are in a bad situation. Chess is for sometimes some very advanced level players for instance, if you play rapid 10 minute time controls. There is simply no way to play any openings against any of your opponents that can promise any real advantages. At least at this level.

The reason for that is chess is one of the most greatest games in the world and no books for example or theory is going to help unless you plan to start off at an ordinary level like in the 1300 to 1600 rating range. This is a very strong rating considering a few points higher you should have a very strong rating ( say 1500 or 1900 ).

Approximate possibility to reach this expert rating range? Slim to none.

Try to play games where you can know the basic opening such as a kings pawn or for black the Pirc. Try to use an opening like the kings indian attack only theoritically just to improve your play for instance you could learn different variations.

Learning the openings is all but impossible and you shouldn't expect to play but some good choices in order to play at a higher rating than expert. But one shouldn't never expect the holy grails to approach them like that and so therefore just know it is easier to play good openings that are more simple.

Try to find out what other users are saying when it is just practical Pete's luck when it comes to it and try to play I'm a more better way then.

Don't expect the best moves to come to you off the bat. Sometimes they will sure, for some. But not for all?

And also try to remember that you should never expect an opening to find you if you don't take this advice. I mean you should. But something like the kings gambit is never going to be learned unless one practices it first.

Practice is not perfect in chess sometimes.

Because chess is what you love right. Then try to play something like the English and lose with it instead, or the benoi and not win. Instead try the kings pawn game expecting nothing for black try the Sicilian expecting a loss. Because you shouldn't win with any of these openings like this. In fact you shouldn't win even if you could play some of these openings. What if somebody told you you couldn't do it? I know it depends on the rating your playing at but what if it were you?

And why isn't the kings pawn game working for you sometimes? Isn't it because the bishiops opening with 2.Bc4 isn't going to work? Why yes suppose that though.

Instead if you want to win you've got to try to lay off the chance and.go with the win instead.

For example don't try anything but the d4 openings and real class. Or kings pawn game and Ruy Lopezs plural btw play it in every game that you play but not with black. Never struggle with another different opening we've only got one chance to mate you know.

Don't try to lose do you see. You can do it. And oh btw try to play a few of these openings and not different. Only if you know these openings I suggest are two or three different openings at most. Play knowing that you can use an opening sure, but never play to show off if you cannot be respectful.