The time that you save for knowing the best moves beforehand can be crucial later on in your classical games. And in blitz and bullet , this is very often the difference between winning and losing.
For example, you will see that the Spanish game goes 1. Nf3, Nc6 3. Bb5, and black can respond with a6, Nf6, d6, or any number of options. If black wants a6, white usually plays Ba4; this is the mainline, and it often goes on like 4… Nf6, 5.
O-O, Be7 6. Re1, b5 7. Bb3, O-O… But what if white goes with 4. Bxc6, dxc6 5. Is black just giving up a pawn for free? No, this is considered to be a wrong move for white.
All black needs to do is to play 5. Qd4 and can recapture the pawn and be in a better position on the next move. When you want to learn an opening, you are going to have to memorize so many lines and variations. Is the only thing you have to do is memorize a bunch of lines? While memorizing a bunch of different lines is useful, that is only half of what it takes to master an opening. The other, and the more important, half of mastering an opening is knowing the ideas behind the moves.
The opening is only the first stage of the game. That is very important for sure, but you need to know the ideas behind every move you make. This way, your moves will make sense to you. Now that you know that openings are more than just memorizing lines, how exactly do you learn an opening? Do you have to study every single possibility in every position carefully? Today, you have a load of invaluable resources at your fingertips.
Chess is more than a thousand years old already. Over the years, brilliant minds have done all the hard work for us. These are the people who pioneered the openings and ideas that are well-known in the chess world today. Here, the author will not only show you the best moves, but he will also explain to you precisely what they do.
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. 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.
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. 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. The opening kinda fell in to place after that.
I'm a software developer so the best way that I can relate this is in this way. 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. Openings are kinda the same way. You can memorize and opening but unless you know how to use it effectively, it doesn't really do you much good. Its best to know the tactics before the moves. You should at least have an uscf rating OVER Worry about openings later, first just try to adhere to some principles, control the center, don't make too many pawn moves, develop pieces, and don't move them more then once or twice during the opening without a good reason, don't leave your king in the center if the position is open or is about to open up.
Personally, I think the best thing to do is get together with a friend who plays well and ask him to sit with you and teach you.
Offer him a few bucks or dinner in exchange for an afternoon or evening of chess work. I've done this with some friends who wanted to learn openings and I showed them. It's fun and they'll get as much enjoyment out of teaching you as you will learning from them.
I hope it is acceptable here to re-use another's links - I will post this and then try to find the original post to give the person proper attribution. This link supports the concepts shared about learning the principles behind the moves. The original post that shared the link above came from member swestland in this article Another source I found is at www. In our own Study Plan for the Intermediate , step 1 is to memorize openings!!
Yet most here say this is a waste of time for those less than Is this a debatable point? If you want to memorize lines an easy way to do that is look up the opening on youtube and study the videos.
Easy and free. Of course a lot of the videos come in a series, mainly because most of the time your opponent will do something else and then you have an entirely different opening. After that, you must find someone to play through those paticular lines you used, perferinbly someone better than you.
I found that to be a good method. Rencently I have been studying a certain opening and learned a lot of insights by just playing that opening with someone a lot better than me. Different moves where made that threw me off, and I was able to learn there what to do in response to those different occurances. Of course you have to start off with the said opening, and study that. Only study the variations you are memorizing that paticular "sesson". Of course this method can be long and tedious to go through, but this is more of an extra curicular activity for me, as my rating isn't high enough to really go deep into openings.
All I am saying is it couldn't hurt to look up openings if you have the time. Always try and think of the "why" behind the moves to, so you will remember them, and don't study the exact moves in the games they show you online, but just the attacking ideas and the moves will come to you ingame.
To answer someone's question about not studying openings and is that true for people under I know people that are about or so, and they know less about the openings than I do :D. End of discussion :D. It just doesn't hurt if you have the time to go over openings. But the bulk of your study should be tactics and strategy. I keep putting off learning more tactics, but tactics trainer everyday seems to be a boring chore for me, but that is exactly what i have to do if I want to improve, that and going over a book about positional play.
A good one, and a classic to start off with is My System. It turns out I pretty much know the first 8 chapters, it just gives me a few more tips, the why behind the error in the thinking of certain "bad moves," and it goes about it at a "different angle" that I already know.
The second part of the book is where the real learning comes in I think, so I am eagerly waiting to get past these first 8 chapters to get onto positional play, the "higher learning" part of the book.
Whenever I play someone that is a lot higher rated to me I lose to a tactic. Quite simple actually the tactics I lose to, but the errors I and most people make are in response to a defense or a lack of coordination of the pieces, or to get rid of a monster piece of your opponent, an unaware he moves away the piece and an unexpected tactic comes to play It's hard to always remember to give your king breathing room, etc, unless you just do it thousands of times in tactics trainer!
I dunno though, I may put off this quest to master a new opening because it might be getting in the way of my progress. After all I know of two people that are probably rated about yet they know less about the opening game than I do I've noticed things about the way they play to, which are inacurrate. Maybe someday I will get rid of the errors in my games to get to the level of play they are and then learn to capitalize on those mistakes I notice they make in their games, I will probably be able to beat them finally!
Nc3 is logical because it attacks Black's queen at d5, thus easy to remember. Black's queen must decide, and I hate it when the next move is not book, White is forced to block the check and must move one of three pieces: 4. Nbe2, Be2 or Qe2. Exchanging queens so early in a match is not my preference. White playing 2. The move 2. Nf3 would not be a logical response anyway because there's no pawn to attack.
The Sicilian Defense - Black plays The first time I saw this move just a few months ago, I'm thinking, uh? It's weird. In chess speak it's asymetrical. I prefer to play the Closed Sicilian, 2. Nc3 because it defends my pawn at e4. The move, 2. Nf3 doesn't make sense to me yet, except for preparing to castle short. I'm happy defending e4. The Alekhine Defense - Black plays Nf6, attacking e4. A strange first move.
Book is 2. I defend e4 with 2. It does block the diagonal for my light squared bishop, but I can still develop both pieces and castle short. It may not be best for now, but I'm a beginner.
Book is 1. I play the sober and reliable 2. Nf3 because I stick to my plan of always playing 1. Second - I take a mental break after every blitz game. Maybe it's age? I replay the game in Chessmaster 11 and ask it to find better moves.
This has made such a huge change in my chess playing strength. I simply can't overstate post game analysis, even with blitz games. Third - I just started two correspondence games, and will add more, which gives me the time to ponder. After receiving a move from my opponent, I sit down at my chess board and go into a deep think, even if I'm only on the third move and it looks obvious. I look to see if I can find a better move. Why do so many players live under this illusion of being better players by memorizing openings?
Want to get better at chess? Start by realizing what the ultimate goal of chess is, what is happening when a player is checkmated. Then you work back from that point and learn how to bring about that situation. Openings are actually one of the last things to concentrate on in my opinion.
If you do not have a solid base of technique and an understanding of what you are trying to accomplish in the opening and middlegame, then all of your hard work studying will be wasted! Is it possible to memorize reams of opening variations and play them perfectly, sure, for some. But there will be the other It is at that point that the lack of true understanding will come to light.
Never ever study moves, study ideas. When I started playing chess I played a lot of 10 minute blitz and had a basic Idea what I wanted to do by basic idea i mean i knew a bit of opening principles and I "knew" theory up to a very limited point , after each game I lost and I felt I did so because I played the opening badly I would look in a database at how to improve my play and used an engine to understand why the moves the database recommends work.
I agree. That's why I talked about moves and not opening lines in my previous post. I know the idea behind 2. Nf3 after 1.
I also know when not to play 2. Nf3, and why.
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