I HAVE TROUBLE  STUDYING  CHESS OPENING  BOOKS,  I  HAVE  MCO  AND NCO

BOOKS, BUT  WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME ADVICE AS TO  WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO  STUDY  CHESS OPENINGS USING THESE BOOKS,

I  AM NOT AN ADVANCED PLAYER AND STILL LEARNING, I FIGURE  WITH  THE EXPERTICE OF MEMBERS ON THIS SITE, I SHOULD GET SOME GOOD FEEDBACK

 

                                       THANKS  TONY   (antne003)

We do not study Openings from books like the MCO or NCO. These books are more of reference books. Books like "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings" by Reubin Fine gives us the IDEAS that governs each individual Opening. It is better to understand them than to just memorise tomes of Opening LInes & their variations by rote without understanding the strategy behind the Openings. 

 

At the beginner level you will probably gain more by studying opening principles than by studying opening variations from MCO or NCO.

 
1. The advantages you gain from knowing an opening are small. For example, I play the Nimzo-Indian and often I can double by opponent's pawns and gain a tempo in exchange for giving up the bishop pair.

 

2. Your opponents are only going to know the first few moves of the opening anyway, so studying the book lines deeply is almost a complete waste.

At the intermediate level, a good way to learn an opening is to study master games so you get an idea how to play the resulting positions. Even for an intermediate player this is more effective than memorizing lines. Books and DVDs like, "Starting Out..." or "The ABCs of..." or "... The Easy Way" are great for this sort of study. Good luck. 

Choose an opening and go through lots of games played with it quickly to get a feel for it. Then when you play, reference the opening book after to see where you went wrong. Even if you could memorise lots of openings, it wouldn't help you. 15 moves of GM analysis. And then what. Lots of people make that mistake, so learn the mechanics of chess and improve your opening skills afterwards. I agree with Singa.

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I am looking at new openings and seeing if they work a variation of openings like the kings gambit with a twist maybe i dont know

there are a serie called "Starting out"

with different openings .there you will get a pretty good idear have to play you favorit opening.

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Usually, we are trained to think linearly--start with 1 then 2 and then 3.  I read in the past that it's better to study the different tactics first (e.g., fork, pins, skewers).  Then the endgame should be studied, then the middlegame, and lastly the opening.  What, the opening for last?!  Yes...  However, if one is a beginner, he should at least know what the usual openings are, just to have an idea especially if he plays a relatively stronger opponent.  When I started years back I started with the Guioco Piano or the quiet game (I think this is named Italian Opening, I'm not sure), Ruy Lopez (or the Spanish Opening?), King's and Queen's Gambit, the different Indian Defenses, Sicilian, Danish Gambit (I don't see this nowadays), etc.  Just the main lines, not the different variations...