A beginner really does not understand how the pieces move. They have problems seeing a mate in one let alone plan an opening. A beginner only has a few hours under their belt. So the definition of a beginner needs a rating attached to it and number of hours that it takes to normally reach that rating naturally without assistance. When they have 2000 hours they will not be considered a beginner. Some remain amateurs of the game all their life and it has nothing to do with chess openings. I'm sure they know what's best for them. Best is to feed the beginner slowly. One chunk at a time. The improvement part will happen if they retain and use the information given.
Google searches have precise responses, that are clickable and lead to actual sources. And they need your inspection.
ChatGPT style is about returning a conversation chunk to you. You don'T want to search the internet for actual sources or references, and instead be given poems about the words you entered.
It would explain things to you with some creativity and the high level text form it might have in its répertoire, that make it appear like it knows what it is doing, and globally it might be right. but you would not get references that you could inspect.
It is meant to be able to invent from its database, in structured text strings. It assume the world in made of text string sequences about other text strings. What we might have produced already, a sample of that (big sample). Then it "averages" all the string sequence various string depths into a generative model (i did not mean flatten here).
I saw a sub-thread about that in here somewhere. If it can invent scientific article titles that do not exist, because the text conversation might evolve in that direction, and the global database allows the sequence of words of such title, to have some meaning, and plausibility (it might actually be a coalescence of existing paper titles), then what does one think it would do to chess? It deals with plausible given the data. So I might actually be making hypotheses that fit the big database, and the small one of ones conversation. Not bad if taken as such, king of bad, if thinking of it as a tangible clickable pointer google search.
"... For players with very limited experience, ... the Sicilian Defence ... normally leaves you with little room to manoeuvre and is best left until your positional skills develop. ... I'm still not excited about my students playing the Sicilian Defence at [the stage where they have a moderate level of experience and some opening competence], because it almost always means playing with less space and development, and in some cases with exotic and not particularly instructive pawn-structures. ... if you're taking the Sicilian up at [say, 1700 Elo and above], you should put in a lot of serious study time, as well as commit to playing it for a few years. ..." - IM John Watson (2010)
If one really wants to learn about the Sicilian, one could look at the 2009 book, Starting Out: The Sicilian, 2nd Edition.
"... For players who are beginning to learn about openings and want a good overview of the many lines that constitute the Sicilian complex, this book is THE answer. ..." (2009)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627122350/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen123.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-Sicilian-Everyman-Chess/dp/1857445880?asin=1857442490&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
It is possible to play a somewhat simplified Ruy Lopez by going for 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 d3. There is a chapter about this in The Ruy Lopez: Move by Move by Neil McDonald (2011).
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627022042/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen153.pdf
"... As a first step in mastering the Ruy Lopez, you need a solid, simple repertoire that will allow you to play practice games with your new opening without fearing nasty surprises. ... 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 d3 ... This should be by far the most common position you reach after 3 Bb5. Until, that is, you feel ready to branch out from 5 d3 to other, sharper variations. ..." - GM Neil McDonald (2011)
When I was a beginner, I did not even know my own phone number by heart. So I don't think any opening was going to be useful for me. It was more fun solving end games than trying to reach one. Just too many pieces on the chessboard to make any sence out of it. So I used chess disciplines & principles to guide my ways.
Wisdom from famous players ...
"When you see a good move, look for a better one." - Emanuel Lasker
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/c1eee2ad-b68c-4dff-aa49-b4d2b3c307a8?s=u
Bump.
@Alcadeias
Hasn't the thread with 50+ posts solved your issue or helped you even a little on best openings to improve?
@Akbar2thegreat
The answers have been very helpful but they have not completely solved the question. More answers are needed.
@Alcadeias said in #57:
> The answers have been very helpful but they have not completely solved the question. More answers are needed.
'Anyone can lead a horse to water, but can't make it drink'
You need to utilise the responses by others and put your own effort to improve if you really want to.
The best opening for a beginner is doing what they want until they realize what they must do to make the game last longer. The longer your games the better you are getting. It's not the rating, because you should be playing against equally rated players. So go to customs quick pick settings and adjust that rating range to zero plus a 100. Play only custom settings, until you are no longer a beginner.
My opening today has been Castling my King and Queen. A plan is better than no plan. No plan is like a spider sailing or ballooning across the ocean, not know where they will end up.
I know how my opening will end up. Like a royal castling maneuver. I'm having fun today.
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