The title says it all.
Basically I'm starting to play games and I've noticed that what i know from just looking at games is not enough, I never spent time learning how an opening works, i just do puzzles on the website and from a book that i have at home.
Basically my opening knowledge is stuff I remember seeing somewhere. Maybe videos,games or from the actual events that I usually follow (Ex. Tata steel,Candidates...etc).
I hope you can help me with this, Excuse me for my English.
Thanks.
Youtube is a good source for learning openings. The opening explorer in Lichess is also good.
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What I do currently [that is likely not 'best'] is
play over as many annotated GM full games as I can find in the opening
(I use a physical board and try to refute any move that I dont understand until I do-sort of- get it)
make a booklet of opening lines I learn
record tactics in the opening in a quiz book and go thru it periodically
play it in blitz games and look up later the line played
after that I:
make a lichess study on the opening where I put in un-annotated GM games in it
then
first add my comments from memory- 'recollection practice'
then look it up in my books and add what they say/correct what I wrote
then turn on the computer analysis and add that
update my booklet and quiz book
and
play it more in blitz and analyze what I can recall.
In times long past I did not have as many resources so spent a lot of time with the few GM games I could find. Gligoric had a column 'game of the month' that had enough to take me a month to go through it.
Bill
Fear not, for mastering openings is like learning to salsa but with more knights and less spicy sauce. Embrace the joy, the blunders, and the victory moonwalks. May your openings shine like a chessboard disco ball
thousands of books are out there waiting for you. if you are in the 'post-literate' generations, sorry.
@sparowe14 said in #6:
> thousands of books are out there waiting for you. if you are in the 'post-literate' generations, sorry.
What?
I mentioned that i already read a book on the post, unnecessary comment.
do you read? do you learn things by reading? if so, I can recommend a large number of books, english, german, whatever. if you are a young person who wants to learn from videos & electronic media, I have no suggestions -- except watch "agadmator" on youtube every day as he explains the opening simply and well
"a book" ? what book? for me the best books are not opening manuals, which are too complex, but game collections of favorite players and the lines they play or played. also, endgame study is well worth the time, as it shows ways piece work together and how to finish out a game
obviously openings are a huge subject. you cannot learn it all in a lifetime, so you need to choose a few openings you like, concentrate of those, and then expand your knowledge. kings gambit will teach you a lot in a short time, but it is hard
looks like you are already doing great, based on three wins. nothing I say can be very helpful
