Which Opening Should I play after 1.e4 e5?
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Ask if you can take back and play 1.d4 instead
Vienna Game or Bishop's Opening. Point a Bishop at f7 with Bc4, try to get in an f4 before Nf3, castle Queenside if practical, and relentlessly point every piece you can at your opponent's King while busting up Black's K-side Pawns with and f-g-h Pawn Storm.
Ruy Lopez or gioco pianissimo
four knights
mating_threats wrote:
2.f4 kings gambit
Please tell me quick. Your choices are Ruy Lopez, Italian game, Danish Gambit, King's Gambit, Goring Gambit, Scotch Game, Four Knights, or another opening.
italian,its a preety solid and non complicated opening
Possibly helpful:
The Four Knights: Move by Move by Cyrus Lakdawala (2012)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627040728/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/ebcafe06.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627104938/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen159.pdf
The Ruy Lopez: Move by Move by Neil McDonald (2011)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022042/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen153.pdf
Playing 1.e4 - Caro-Kann, 1...e5 and Minor Lines by John Shaw
http://www.qualitychess.co.uk/ebooks/Playing1e4CaroKannandothers-excerpt.pdf
My First Chess Opening Repertoire for White by Vincent Moret
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9033.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-understand-openings
A SIMPLE CHESS OPENING REPERTOIRE FOR WHITE by Sam Collins
http://www.gambitbooks.com/pdfs/A_Simple_Chess_Opening_Repertoire_for_White.pdf
http://www.jeremysilman.com/shop/pc/A-Simple-Chess-Opening-Repertoire-for-White-76p3916.htm
Winning with the Slow (but Venomous!) Italian by Karsten Müller and Georgios Souleidis
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9037.pdf
A Chess Opening Repertoire for Blitz and Rapid by Evgeny Sveshnikov and Vladimir Sveshnikov
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9020.pdf
The King’s Gambit by John Shaw
http://www.chessvibes.com/?q=review-the-king%E2%80%99s-gambit
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7093.pdf
i think italian opening
Ponziani!!
king's gambit
Please don't play the italian if you don't know the lines. Just watched a game in the Altibox and didn't understand anything from the opening. a4 from the white is one of the examples. REALLY LEARN AND PLAY RUY LOPEZ.
Little-Charles wrote:
If you decide to try the Scotch, use Yasser Seirawan's trick to avoid the Petroff (Russian Defense): 1 e4 e5 2 d4 exd4 3 Nf3 - one less thing to prepare for.
That line is ill-advised for White. As a player that plays the petroff whenever I do play 1...e5 (my main line of defense is the French), I can tell you that Black gets an excellent game if he does not comply with 3...Nc6 and instead plays 3...Bb4+!. This is why Scotch players have to play 2.Nf3 first.
mating_threats wrote:
Please tell me quick. Your choices are Ruy Lopez, Italian game, Danish Gambit, King's Gambit, Goring Gambit, Scotch Game, Four Knights, or another opening.
Quiz?
If you would have asked me I would have said Scotch Game. But it is your choice of opening. Each opening depends upon your style of play. If you could describe your style of play we could tell one opening.
Ruy Lopez, Scotch and the Italian are all sound systems against 1...e5. Just pick your favourite one and stick to it for a while. With experience comes the knowledge and also the understanding of the structure.
workhard91 wrote:
Ruy Lopez, Scotch and the Italian are all sound systems against 1...e5. Just pick your favourite one and stick to it for a while. With experience comes the knowledge and also the understanding of the structure.
ruy lopez runs into berlin
mating_threats wrote:
Please tell me quick. Your choices are Ruy Lopez, Italian game, Danish Gambit, King's Gambit, Goring Gambit, Scotch Game, Four Knights, or another opening.
This thread is so random, and the comments make it worse!
Like, why would you listen to an italian game player who likes the italian game because it suits HIS skills. Of course he'll say the italian or spanish game is good but does it suit YOUR skills?
The question should be which opening suits your own personal style? Which opening makes you exploit best your own skills?
And that brings you to another interesting question: What are your best skills and what are your weaknesses? Are you good at tactics? Maybe that means you should play a sharper opening? Or are you better at reading the board and evaluating positions? So maybe you need to play a more positional kind of opening?
Don't expect to find an answer to this question just by asking it, if you want to get good at something, you need to dig deep
Chess is not "Who wants to be a millionaire". You don't solve problems by polling the audience. Figure out what works for you, not what some stranger says works for him. This is a strangely common misconception on these forums.
For someone seeking help with choosing openings, I usually bring up Openings for Amateurs by Pete Tamburro (2014).
http://kenilworthian.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-of-pete-tamburros-openings-for.html
https://chessbookreviews.wordpress.com/tag/openings-for-amateurs/
I believe that it is possible to see a fair portion of the beginning of Tamburro's book by going to the Mongoose Press site.
https://www.mongoosepress.com/catalog/excerpts/openings_amateurs.pdf
Perhaps mating_threats would also want to look at Discovering Chess Openings by GM John Emms (2006).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
"Each player should choose an opening that attracts him. Some players are looking for a gambit as White, others for Black gambits. Many players that are starting out (or have bad memories) want to avoid mainstream systems, others want dynamic openings, and others want calm positional pathways. It’s all about personal taste and personal need.
For example, if you feel you’re poor at tactics you can choose a quiet positional opening (trying to hide from your weakness and just play chess), or seek more dynamic openings that engender lots of tactics and sacrifices (this might lead to more losses but, over time, will improve your tactical skills and make you stronger)." - IM Jeremy Silman (January 28, 2016)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/opening-questions-and-a-dream-mate
https://www.chess.com/article/view/picking-the-correct-opening-repertoire
http://chess-teacher.com/best-chess-openings/
https://www.chess.com/blog/TigerLilov/build-your-opening-repertoire
https://www.chess.com/blog/CraiggoryC/how-to-build-an-opening-repertoire
https://www.chess.com/article/view/learning-an-opening-to-memorize-or-understand
https://www.chess.com/article/view/the-perfect-opening-for-the-lazy-student
https://www.chess.com/article/view/3-ways-to-learn-new-openings
https://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-understand-openings
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9035.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627110453/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen169.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9029.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/7277.pdf
https://www.newinchess.com/media/wysiwyg/product_pdf/9033.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627104938/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen159.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022042/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen153.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627132508/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen173.pdf
Please tell me quick. Your choices are Ruy Lopez, Italian game, Danish Gambit, King's Gambit, Goring Gambit, Scotch Game, Four Knights, or another opening.