I can give you all of my source code but unless you have the knowledge and the tools to compile and run it, it doesn't do you any good. I'm a software developer so the best way that I can relate this is in this way. The opening kinda fell in to place after that. In my instance I wasn't interested so much in a particular opening as I was in just working with the pieces and finding ways for them to compliment one another. Basically the point that I'm trying to make and the point I believe TheGrobe is making above is that memorizing the opening isn't valuable if you don't know WHY you're making the moves you're making. I've now learned that I'm using a C44 or C45 Scotch Game depending on the variation you look at. I had never seen the opening before but I just started looking at the board and thinking more about the pieces I was using and the opening just sorta appeared and my game has been strengthening ever since. One thing that I've noticed with my play over the last few months is that I was using the same opening moves over and over. White occupies the centre while black launches a kingside pawn storm to harass white's king. The main line runs 4.d4 g5 5.h4 g4 6.Ng1 Bh6 7.Nc3 as played by Nigel Short against Akopian at Madrid 1997. 3.d6 is played to keep white's knight out of e5. Kotov talks a bit about how to evaluate in Think Like A Grandmaster.įischer's defence is a line in the King's Gambit Accepted 1.e4 e5 2.f4 ef 3.Nf3 d6. In the long run, you'll want to learn how to evaluate positions, and decide on your own which move is better of different alternatives. Understanding Chess Move by Move by John Nunn and the earlier book by Irving Chernev also give detailed explanations of each move. You might want to take a look at books like Reuben Fine's Ideas Behind the Chess Openings, Gabor Kallai's Basic Chess Openings or Sam Collins' Understanding the Chess Openings. In general, you are aiming to develop all your pieces as quickly as possible towards the centre, to put pressure on your opponent's weak points, and induce him to make weakening pawn moves while restricting his own plans. It is probably more important to understand the ideas behind the various openings than to just blindly memorize certain moves. Then identify why the mistaken move (yours or his) was flawed and how to gain an advantage. Studying your games at least through the opening, up to the point where you or your opponent makes an opening blunder/error is THE best way to learn openings IMO. At 1800+ you have played enough games and studied enough of your openings to simply 'know' openings and most of the main and secondary lines - simply by playing your way up to that level. In time, you will learn the openings, and where you took a wrong turn, by analyzing the opening of each game and comparing it to book lines.Įven if you memorize an opening, your oppenent will probably screw up fairly quickly, and then you are back to tactics and strategy because the opening lines are blown. You have no chance of memorizing even a fraction of the possibilities. Your opponent has a lot to say about what opening you will wind up playing anyway, so you must be flexible. The reason that memorization does not work is that there are an endless number of lines and sub-lines for every opening. Over time, you will learn openings through experience. Then you study and try to learn why the non-book move is bad. Over time, as you analyze your games, you will see where you (or your opponent) diverted from known solid lines. You would benefit from using, as much as possible, one or two 'preferred' openings for White and Black. As noted, unless you are at least 1800, don't even try. The top players don't reveal their best moves unless they have to. Re-enforce your opening by looking it up in an opening book and prepare an alternative move if you wish to repeat the variation. They may not be able to do it the next day, but it can be done. Every single master I have ever encountered can turn over a score sheet and re-play his game after it was just played. That's what you should work on for memory. Try to play a game, finish it, then see if you can re-play the game without looking at the scoresheet. Any opening can be played once, but if you won by luck or your opponent did not know the opening, and you played a bad line, time to retire it and try something else. Once you finish a game, go over it and see where the critical postion is. Find two openings as White and two openings as Black and study these.
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