![]() At your current level, you should focus on opening principles and tactics if you are looking to improve. My first question is How? Do I buy a book on openings and record those moves? Do I go to Opening Explorer and just record what explorer says is the most common response?įirst, I'm not sure who recommended you study openings. I've been advised to create a repertoire of openings. Next I look it up in an opening book and add those comments and finally I turn on a computed and check everything written.- Sorry for the long post! -Bill I also find it helpful to take an unannotated GM game and make my own annotations. Playing it in blitz and analyzing the games is helpful (I find). After that the way to 'learn an opening' is to play through many, lightly annotated, GM games and get a feel for their tactics, where the pieces go, how to play the endgames that result. So books explaining in words the ideas of the openings are important-IMO thinner is better. At that point, understanding becomes what is important. 5 moves) in an approved 'book' opening sequence before one player deviates from the moves both have been trying to memorize. It is unusual for normal / average tournament players to get far (e.g. if your rating is accurate it is more important to understand the ideas in the opening you play, have in mind a middlegame structure you are aiming for and have an idea how to play your side of that structure. You can also takeback moves and try different things. The computer will play against you, and give you feedback on each move you make. Regarding your desire to practice openings against the computer, you can do this here, on :Ĭhoose the opening you want to practice. It may take some fiddling around to learn how to use it, but once you do, it can be quite useful. Speaking of other resources, if you want a free database to look at openings, I like to use this one: Some are better than others, so your mileage may vary. There are many YouTubers who explain openings and the ideas behind them. If books aren't an option (or aren't something you're interested in), you can give YouTube a try. ![]() This is more for expert-level players and higher - those who don't need instruction or explanations, but merely want an encyclopedic resource. ![]() This one I found most instructive.ĭon't confuse this with Modern Chess Openings, which is mostly a printed database/catalogue of opening lines, with very little instruction at all. That felt a bit advanced for me in some regards, but it also taught me some useful concepts.Īfter that, I moved onto a much broader survey of openings, Fundamental Chess Openings, which describes the main goals and ideas behind all the major openings. I then moved onto a slightly deeper survey of openings, Ideas Behind the Openings by Reuben Fine (algebraic notation). ![]() I started with Winning Chess Openings, by Yasser Seirawan, which was a gentle introduction to most main openings, discussing only the first 5 moves or so of each opening (suitable for beginners). When I was first learning openings, my go-to resource was books. And that was so long ago there was no internet. If they make such an animal I would like to be able to play particular openings against the computer.įYI-I'm an old man that learned as a kid. I don't mind spending some money, but Chessbase's $400 database is out of my league. But there are others, like Lichess and Chesstempo. My first question is How? Do I buy a book on openings and record those moves? Do I go to Opening Explorer and just record what explorer says is the most common response?Īlso, do you have a recommended software? I'm getting more and more familiar with what is available here.
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