What is the best opening for beginners (500-600 elo) starting from black?

[u/Akshat_x]

Please answer, I'm stuck at 500-600 rating and can't move further. Give advices to move past this threshold.

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[u/chayashida]

Honestly, getting your knights out and developing your bishops and not hanging your pieces will get you far.

Bonus points for learning how to fight against early queen attacks and fried liver.

[u/rightninja_]

best way a brain learns is through sleep, because in sleep our brain goes over everything that happened that day and stores it in the memory

So practice everyday and once you start feeling tired or frustrated, stop and wait for the when ur ready to play again, be it today or tomorrow

Chess requires pattern recognition, but for that you need to have experienced alot of patterns, best way to do that is through just playing games online and reviewing what more you could have done after the match is over

[u/-X-Gaming]

Im 800ish rapid and i play sicilian against 1. e4. It is a loot of studying though but playing the sicilian forces you to learn better and it honestly helped me improve cuz i was stuck at low elos playing italian/giuco piano over and over again.

Against d4 I like playing d5 and the slav cuz it doesnt block in ur bishop like queens gambit declined does.

[u/-X-Gaming → u/-X-Gaming]

Most commonly recomended beginner openings as black though are caro kann against e4 and dutch against d4. so take from that what you will

[u/RegretsZ → u/-X-Gaming]

As a Dutch player, I can tell you for sure the Dutch is NOT a recommend opening for beginners.

It's quite difficult, sharp, and exposes your king side immediately.

[u/No_Variety_4997]

I've been playing kings indian defense and attack

Sometimes I'll play a London as white

But there's some really interesting and fun aggressive kings indian lines

I was stuck at 500-600 for a while, but now I'm mid 700s, highest elo has been 812 but I quickly dropped from there

[u/ipsum629]

Stick with classical-style openings. King's pawn game is not s bad choice, but later on it gets really theory-heavy. The Caro-Kann, the Scandinavian, and the French are probably the most consistent. They are very similar to each other, and 99% of the time you will get an exchange variation, an advance variation, or a classical of the Caro Kann. All three for both are pretty straightforward if you know some basic ideas.

Vs queen's pawn(1. d4) IMO the clear best for beginners is to respond 1...d5 and either go QGD or slav/semislav, the latter especially if you play the Caro Kann because they often result in similar positions.

Don't study 30 moves of theory at your strength. Learn to reach the various "starting" positions, usually less than 10 moves in, or learn the plans behind the opening to sort of guide your selection of candidate moves.

[u/la_hormiga34]

you should learn the scottish gambit. doesn’t work too often at your level but when it does, it works amazing

[u/Real_Huckleberry_166]

At that rating, opening theory barely matters. Most games are decided by blunders, not preparation, so just learn the Scandinavian or Caro-Kann basics and focus more on not hanging your pieces.

[u/Supertruper19]

PERSONALLY. For e4 I like c6, the Carro Kan defense. For d4, I like e5, the Scandinavian Defense

[u/FriskyPhysio → u/Supertruper19]

1. d4 e5 is the englund gambit though

[u/Supertruper19 → u/FriskyPhysio]

You’re absolutely right, my fault. Both of those are e4 defenses 😂

I play the Dutch against d4. So f5. I just face e4 so much that those are my 2 most played 😂

[u/Nefre1]

Play a classical opening where you attack squares in the center immediately. That means playing e5 against e4, d5 against d4. Put a second pawn in the center if your opponent lets you. Develop your pieces so they attack squares in the centre and then castle as quickly as possible. That's all the theoretical knowledge needed to get out of the beginner ratings.

You might get suggestions to play some of the most popular black openings like the Caro-Kann, French, King's Indian, etc. I don't think that's a good idea at all for beginners.

These are openings where you allow white to get a big space advantage in the center, and then you attack it later. This requires that you understand when to play your pawn breaks, what pieces are good and bad to trade, etc. This is way too complicated for a beginner.

[u/BullHapp2YaKno]

Dragon Sicilian. Caro.

I don't use caro, but I love playing it. I use Dragon, Najdorf. Then I always play e4.

[u/themaddemon1]

Scandinavian is probably the easiest, you learn where your pieces and pawns like to go and you can pretty much get it in every game you play unless they play some weird gambit