This may already be on the site, but I think there should be a Practice Board that players can utilize for training purposes. Something that would allow them the chance to see for themselves how an openiing situation would look and be able to dicipher where to go from there.

 Any thoughts.....

That's a good idea, perhaps an on-line tool for chess study.  I think it's not available here, although an Analysis Board is available for the games.

why not download one of the many free chess progs to your own machine then set up and play as much as you want. The one i find easiest to use for this purpose is babaschess download for free here

http://www.babaschess.net/download.asp