changing openings repertoire to something more fun

I'm ready to take you on. You won't be able to play anything you mention!

White vs Me - 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6! - No Evans for you!

Black vs Me - 1.d4 d5 (1...e6 2.e4, 1...c6 2.e4, 1...Nf6 2.Bg5) 2.Bg5! - No Slav or Semi-Slav for you!

I concur with ThrillerFan!

I don’t blame you for giving up your openings.

They are pretty trash.

You can’t have fun when you’re being stomped into the ground due to bad opening start.

The Jobava London is inferior to regular London in my humble opinion. The C pawn is clearly blocked in the Jobava London.

The Scandy has been on life support for decades. People keep trying to find new ways to bring it back to life. Sad little line it is.

Players should have put it out of its misery years ago, but they refuse to let a dying line die.

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It’s great to hear you have finally came to your chess senses and have finally decided to play a line of real value.

The Evan’s Gambit is a great choice!

You need to pair Evan’s Gambit with another line.

I recommend the Birds Attack as they complement each other very well!

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As Black against 1.e4, I recommend going French!

We We My Friend!

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As Black against 1.d4, Don’t even make me laugh.

You can’t play the Semi-Slav.

Who are you trying to fool here?

Your chess rating is 1k.

You can’t play the Semi-Slav

It’s to strong for you.

The Semi-Slav is a power opening!

Only for Intermediate or Higher Players

What you need is something simple, fun, and aggressive.

I got it!

The Dutch!

Not just any Dutch, but the Stone Wall Dutch!

- Simple

- Easy

- Not to Complicated

- Beginner Friendly

Chiefs Kiss - right there

Yeah, The Stone Wall Dutch in the hands of a beginner vs. another beginner is perfect.

It has the right level of complexity with simple plans with a sprinkle of aggression.

I wouldn’t use Stone Wall Dutch Long term, but Short term with your rating range. It can do some work.

Yeah, What can do is use Stone Wall Dutch to beat down other beginners to steal their rating points + Lunch money.

Than when you hit Intermediate Level.

You can do the change up and switch to Power Opening like the Semi-Slav.

You will be very well rounded player at that point sense you will have knowledge of at least 2 different openings under your belt.

Oh my! The tangled web of deception! Learn the the Semi-Slav, because you will have to change out your Stonewall Dutch due to some borderline positions you have to play. The Scandinavian Defence is at least as good or bad as the French, the problem is Scandinavian books, or opening books in general, don't always deliver the best lines of play to study.

The Evans Gambit is a hard equal if played correctly and probably even more so with the Bird's as White

Best of luck with what you end up playing

Jobava is a fine line, but changing your opening is a good idea - as a beginner your goal shouldn't be to win, it should be to experiment and have fun. You have to experiment or you stop growing as a player. Branching out will expose you to different types of patterns, tactics and ideas. And it doesn't take too long to watch a video on an opening and figure out just the first few moves / get started playing it. Also... you shouldn't be going too deep into theory at this point anyway, just understand the ideas and the first 5-6 moves. For this reason I would not advise you to save time and play another London-like semi-slav position (are you describing the Slav schallop or what?). Do something completely new and exciting... My recommendation would be that you play the QGD Tartakower as black. You need to learn the classical chess principles anyway. Your pieces are developed... and you play chess. No chess player is complete until they've played the QGD at least a little bit.

The only way I want to learn openings is by studying my own games. I don't really want to be an opening prepper. I'm fine with trying to learn lines that I encounter in my own play, or from studying famous games kind of ad hoc, but something about studying games just for the openings, or openings for their own sake, doesn't really appeal to my preferred style of learning. I really prefer to learn more from direct experience than a fixed program. I'm currently in a process of trying to learn more openings from my opponents and from games in the books that I have.