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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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supersharp77 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pm
jshriver wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
These Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments...... :) :wink:

1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142

1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4

3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download

4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess

5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8

ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read... :wink:
I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.

Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com :roll:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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Hi moderators:

Please note that the game posted from LICHESS with ChessLearner1979 and Munyos

This account violated the Lichess Terms of Service
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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frcha wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 2:47 am Hi moderators:

Please note that the game posted from LICHESS with ChessLearner1979 and Munyos

This account violated the Lichess Terms of Service
What are you posting about I simply used this Opening recommended here ==>

Please check this game again and see how I simply followed this Opening, but if he change a little I also have to make a few adjustments to the opening==>

[pgn][Date "2022.03.13"]
[Round "?"]
[White "ChessLearner1979"]
[Black "Munyos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "2189"]
[ECO "D04"]
[Opening "Colle"]
[Variation "3...c6"]
[WhiteElo "2101"]
[TimeControl "480+3"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. d4 {[%clk 0:08:00]} Nf6 {[%clk 0:08:00]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 0:07:58]} c6 {A46
Indian Defense: Czech-Indian} 3. e3 {[%clk 0:07:57]} d5 {[%clk 0:07:56]} 4.
c3 {[%clk 0:07:46]} Bg4 {[%clk 0:07:57]} 5. Bd3 {[%clk 0:07:45]} e6 {[%clk
0:07:57]} 6. O-O {[%clk 0:07:41]} Ne4 {[%clk 0:07:45]} 7. Nbd2 {[%clk
0:07:30]} Bxf3 {[%clk 0:07:32]} 8. Qxf3 {[%clk 0:07:27]} Nxd2 {[%clk
0:07:30]} 9. Bxd2 {[%clk 0:07:27]} Be7 {[%clk 0:07:28]} 10. e4 {[%clk
0:07:19]} O-O {[%clk 0:07:25]} 11. exd5 {[%clk 0:07:16]} cxd5 {[%clk
0:07:26]} 12. Qh5 {[%clk 0:07:13]} h6 {[%clk 0:07:23]} 13. Bxh6 {[%clk
0:07:08]} gxh6 {[%clk 0:07:24]} 14. Qxh6 {[%clk 0:07:10]} Bg5 {[%clk
0:07:22]} 15. Qh7# {White wins by checkmate.} 1-0
[/quote][/pgn]
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

Post by swami »

To OP:

Would suggest following: For starters

Pawn structure chess from Andrew Soltis (this gives you an excellent run through with all the important pawn structures frequently involved as the result of openings - the ideas, strategy, piece play, plans and commentary)

Pocket sized book of Encyclopedia of Chess Openings (play through all major openings (avoid sidelines and variations) to understand the pawn structures arising out of them and correlate with Soltis book)

See best example games, played in such openings, to have an idea.Choose games with less than 50 moves - Such games need to be replicated without looking at the move order so that you would be familiar with setup.

For self learning, Start out with London System or Colle System as white - easiest to learn for someone who is just getting started. It doesn't involve too many variations, and it is pretty straight forward - takes you directly to the game with good development.

For Black, probably Caro Kann against e4 and Queens gambit accepted against d4. Would not suggest e4 e5 as Black, it is very heavily theoretical and demands a lot of preparation. "Starting Out" series has individual books for such openings - it's well researched, revised and updated.
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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Chessqueen wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:19 am
supersharp77 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pm
jshriver wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
These Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments...... :) :wink:

1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142

1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4

3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download

4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess

5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8

ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read... :wink:
I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.

Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com :roll:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531
HAHAHAHA.......Well my Friend Thats not alot of games!... :) :wink: ...Please reread The Original Post...
jshriver wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:54 am
Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
We aim to give the man what he wants..He wants to "Learn Various Openings" And play in Strong FIDE (International) tournaments"......How the heck is he gonna get anywhere and accomplish anything if he only knows 1-2-3 openings? Plus thats boring as hell! Don't ever worry about the points..That's the worse thing you can do...learn the openings...enjoy the game...push the opening theory...push Chess Forward....Explore....Innovate....Thats What we need...The points will come!! :) :wink:
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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supersharp77 wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:07 am
Chessqueen wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:19 am
supersharp77 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pm
jshriver wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
These Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments...... :) :wink:

1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142

1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4

3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download

4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess

5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8

ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read... :wink:
I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.

Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com :roll:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531
HAHAHAHA.......Well my Friend Thats not alot of games!... :) :wink: ...Please reread The Original Post...
jshriver wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:54 am
Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
We aim to give the man what he wants..He wants to "Learn Various Openings" And play in Strong FIDE (International) tournaments"......How the heck is he gonna get anywhere and accomplish anything if he only knows 1-2-3 openings? Plus thats boring as hell! Don't ever worry about the points..That's the worse thing you can do...learn the openings...enjoy the game...push the opening theory...push Chess Forward....Explore....Innovate....Thats What we need...The points will come!! :) :wink:
You really do NOT learn inside out many openings and become an expert at all of them, you really only become familiar with all of them, if you really wants to become an expert you only need to learn 3 good openings for White and for Black. Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one.

Note: Who cares about boring or NOT as long as you play those 3 openings better than players that are 300 to 400 rating more than you. People do NOT go to tournaments just to show that they are a little bit familiar with 50 to 100 openings and get stuck or in a worse position before the middlegame start or even worse NOT knowing really what to do in the middlegame. There are other times to experiment with 500 to 1000 different openings, and that is when you are not playing in tournaments, but practicing against different friends. I have a friend in Spain that in tournaments only play with one opening for White and for Black he always play with one opening for 11.e4, 1,d4 and against 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 and he is rated 2380, but when he plays against friends he always stop at move 12 thru 14 and decline to continue but instead ask his friends to explain to him what are they aiming for to achieve in the middlegame with this opening and why, and in this way become more familiar with those opening, but he always only paly the opening that he really knows in tournaments.
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

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Chessqueen wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:20 am
supersharp77 wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:07 am
Chessqueen wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:19 am
supersharp77 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pm
jshriver wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
These Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments...... :) :wink:

1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142

1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4

3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download

4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess

5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8

ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read... :wink:
I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.

Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com :roll:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531
HAHAHAHA.......Well my Friend Thats not alot of games!... :) :wink: ...Please reread The Original Post...
jshriver wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:54 am
Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
We aim to give the man what he wants..He wants to "Learn Various Openings" And play in Strong FIDE (International) tournaments"......How the heck is he gonna get anywhere and accomplish anything if he only knows 1-2-3 openings? Plus thats boring as hell! Don't ever worry about the points..That's the worse thing you can do...learn the openings...enjoy the game...push the opening theory...push Chess Forward....Explore....Innovate....Thats What we need...The points will come!! :) :wink:
You really do NOT learn inside out many openings and become an expert at all of them, you really only become familiar with all of them, if you really wants to become an expert you only need to learn 3 good openings for White and for Black. Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one.

Note: Who cares about boring or NOT as long as you play those 3 openings better than players that are 300 to 400 rating more than you. People do NOT go to tournaments just to show that they are a little bit familiar with 50 to 100 openings and get stuck or in a worse position before the middlegame start or even worse NOT knowing really what to do in the middlegame. There are other times to experiment with 500 to 1000 different openings, and that is when you are not playing in tournaments, but practicing against different friends. I have a friend in Spain that in tournaments only play with one opening for White and for Black he always play with one opening for 11.e4, 1,d4 and against 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 and he is rated 2380, but when he plays against friends he always stop at move 12 thru 14 and decline to continue but instead ask his friends to explain to him what are they aiming for to achieve in the middlegame with this opening and why, and in this way become more familiar with those opening, but he always only paly the opening that he really knows in tournaments.
There is one disadvantage of playing always the same opening.
The opponent who know what you are playing can prepare against you and if you want to beat some weaker player with black you may not be able to win because the opponent may get a drawn position out of book.

There are also players who have more fun with replacing the opening they play every game(not everybody try to get the best possible result that they can get).

Note that replacing the opening that you play may not be only in the first move and in one of my games I surprised my opponent in move 10 that I never played in the past after my opponent played fast the first 9 moves because of opening preperation and I wanted to play chess and not to test who learned the opening better.
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

Post by Chessqueen »

Uri Blass wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:14 pm
Chessqueen wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 5:20 am
supersharp77 wrote: Sat Apr 02, 2022 2:07 am
Chessqueen wrote: Fri Apr 01, 2022 1:19 am
supersharp77 wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pm
jshriver wrote: Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
These Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments...... :) :wink:

1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142

1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4

3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download

4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess

5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8

ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read... :wink:
I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.

Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com :roll:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531
HAHAHAHA.......Well my Friend Thats not alot of games!... :) :wink: ...Please reread The Original Post...
jshriver wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 9:54 am
Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.

With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.

Thanks!
-Josh
We aim to give the man what he wants..He wants to "Learn Various Openings" And play in Strong FIDE (International) tournaments"......How the heck is he gonna get anywhere and accomplish anything if he only knows 1-2-3 openings? Plus thats boring as hell! Don't ever worry about the points..That's the worse thing you can do...learn the openings...enjoy the game...push the opening theory...push Chess Forward....Explore....Innovate....Thats What we need...The points will come!! :) :wink:
You really do NOT learn inside out many openings and become an expert at all of them, you really only become familiar with all of them, if you really wants to become an expert you only need to learn 3 good openings for White and for Black. Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one.

Note: Who cares about boring or NOT as long as you play those 3 openings better than players that are 300 to 400 rating more than you. People do NOT go to tournaments just to show that they are a little bit familiar with 50 to 100 openings and get stuck or in a worse position before the middlegame start or even worse NOT knowing really what to do in the middlegame. There are other times to experiment with 500 to 1000 different openings, and that is when you are not playing in tournaments, but practicing against different friends. I have a friend in Spain that in tournaments only play with one opening for White and for Black he always play with one opening for 11.e4, 1,d4 and against 1.Nf3 and 1.c4 and he is rated 2380, but when he plays against friends he always stop at move 12 thru 14 and decline to continue but instead ask his friends to explain to him what are they aiming for to achieve in the middlegame with this opening and why, and in this way become more familiar with those opening, but he always only paly the opening that he really knows in tournaments.
There is one disadvantage of playing always the same opening.
The opponent who know what you are playing can prepare against you and if you want to beat some weaker player with black you may not be able to win because the opponent may get a drawn position out of book.

There are also players who have more fun with replacing the opening they play every game(not everybody try to get the best possible result that they can get).

Note that replacing the opening that you play may not be only in the first move and in one of my games I surprised my opponent in move 10 that I never played in the past after my opponent played fast the first 9 moves because of opening preparation and I wanted to play chess and not to test who learned the opening better.
That is true, if you always go to the same club to play in their monthly tournaments, but if you are in Europe and willing to travel to different cities to compete, more likely you will not see the same opponents where the city that you usually go to play in your local club. Of course you can still play the same opening by varying the first 2 moves for instance you can start with .1 Nf3 or 1.d4 and end up with almost the opening applying the same middlegame idea from this recommended Opening ==>

you can start with 1.Nf3 like in this game or ...................

[pgn][Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.03.30"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Krushme-inchess"]
[Black "mohamad_rostom"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1594"]
[ECO "A40"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn"]
[Variation "1...e6 2.Nf3"]
[WhiteElo "1740"]
[TimeControl "300+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. Nf3 e6 2. d4 d6 3. e3 h6 4. c3 a6 5. Bd3 Nd7 6. O-O Ne7 7. Nbd2 Nf5 8.
e4 Nh4 9. Nxh4 Qxh4 10. f4 Nb6 11. Nf3 Qe7 12. a4 Bd7 13. a5 Nc8 14. Bd2 c5
15. Qb3 Rb8 16. Bxa6 Na7 17. Bc4 Nc6 18. d5 exd5 19. exd5 Na7 20. Rfe1
Qxe1+ 21. Rxe1+ Be7 22. Qb6 Nc8 23. Qc7 O-O 24. Qxb8 Bf6 25. Qxb7 Bg4 26.
a6 Bxf3 27. gxf3 Bh4 28. Ra1 Ne7 29. a7 Nf5 30. a8=R 1-0[/pgn]
Last edited by Chessqueen on Sat Apr 02, 2022 3:55 pm, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

Post by Chessqueen »

Or you can start with 1.d4 and still apply the same ideas of this recommended opening ==>

[pgn][Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.04.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Krushme-inchess"]
[Black "YesPrimeMinister"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1921"]
[ECO "D02"]
[Opening "Queen's Pawn"]
[Variation "Krause, Reversed Slav"]
[WhiteElo "1648"]
[TimeControl "300+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. c3 Nc6 4. e3 Bf5 5. dxc5 e6 6. b4 a5 7. Bb5 axb4 8.
cxb4 Bxb1 9. Rxb1 Rxa2 10. O-O Nf6 11. Nd4 Qc7 12. Ba4 e5 13. Qb3 Rxa4 14.
Nb5 Qb8 15. Qxa4 Be7 16. Nd6+ Bxd6 17. cxd6 Qxd6 18. b5 Nd8 19. Ba3 Qd7 20.
Rbc1 Ne4 21. Rfd1 f6 22. Qb4 Kf7 23. Qxe4 1-0[/pgn]
Last edited by Chessqueen on Sat Apr 02, 2022 4:17 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Recommendations for Learning Openings

Post by Chessqueen »

Or the same Opening with a little twist depending what the opponent play, but still using the same ideas as recommended here ==>
[pgn]Event "Live Chess"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2022.04.02"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Krushme-inchess"]
[Black "ayushdeyindia"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "1505"]
[ECO "D04"]
[Opening "Colle"]
[Variation "3...Bf5"]
[WhiteElo "1658"]
[TimeControl "300+5"]
[Termination "normal"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[WhiteType "human"]
[BlackType "human"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. e3 Bf5 4. c3 e6 5. Bd3 Bg6 6. O-O Bd6 7. Re1 O-O 8.
Bc2 c5 9. Nbd2 cxd4 10. cxd4 Nc6 11. Bxg6 fxg6 12. e4 dxe4 13. Nxe4 Nxe4
14. Rxe4 Rf6 15. Bg5 1-0[/pgn]