How To learn Any Opening in 24 hours.

Openings.

They can be extremely tedious to remember, days to gain a basic understanding, weeks to memorize in full, and then you'll come up against a line that you've never seen before on the first moves. Today we are going to try to find openings. We are going to see openings as a mathematical formula. We are going to see openings as equations, and we need to solve some problems. 

ets try to apply this on anything and you can learn this in just 24 hours, even the Sicilian. Here is how you can do it.

Table Of Contents

• The Almost Complete Chronicles
• The Almost Complete Charters
• The Almost Complete Bulletins
• The Almost Complete Records
• Good Game (as Always!)

Chapter 1: The Almost complete Chronicles

Lets just start and pick an opening, I cant pick any opening for you because its up to your rating level and preferences. Now when you have picked up your opening, you can google your opening and variations. For example, the caro-kann defense, variations . Now open up a google doc or word file. Or you can even go with the old school pen and paper. now in the case of the caro-kann, here are the variations

• Main Line
• Classical Variation
• Botvinnik-Carls Variation
• Panov-Botvinnik Attack
• Advance Variation
• Fantasy Variation
• Two Knights Variation
• Exchange Variation
• Krochnoi Variation
• Gurgenidze Variation

And so on.  There are aso many variations other than this but you must get the point. Now that you have found the main variations, now go to youtube and find a video that explains the variations. These videos need to be about 20 minutes long max and need to be explaine dby a titled player.

Chapter 2: The Almost Complete Charters

Now a lot of people watching this will find this very boring, and you must need to have the ability to remember things once you have left the videos. You need to apply a good strategy to these. Now open a word document in which you stored the variations and write the lines and variations right to the end. Stuck? go to lichess and search for public studies, and have an engine at hand to see if your improvement is sharp. When you write something down, you will remember it because you spent extra time studying it rather than reading it. You can personify your moves and give meaning to it. For example, write "we strike in the center with d4" rather than "now we play d4" So remember to have right wording.

Lets go on the next phase.

The Almost Complete Bulletins

There are some websites that allow you to use chess openings as flashcards. Just like while learning a language, the websites will quiz you on the next opening move, eg the Najdorf. This is how you can memorize specific move orders and be more efficient and not miss opening order moves. 

Now a big mistake is that people when people are learning, they keep making the huge mistake of playing their new opening on their main account. This will make players dishearted and lose significant elo. You can set up a training account, that should be used with chess.com's consent, which you can email them and tell them you are using legitimate reasons to use this account. Now remember, you might get the wrong colour, so just play the game normally. If your opponent doesnt play into your opening, just play normally and get middlegame tactics right. The reason why we are using an alt is because you will not have a problem with losing a lot of elo. Try to play rapid games. Remember to keep updating yourself on your opening and keep adding lines. After a month of learning, the opening theory will get ingrained into your mind. But until that occurs, keep memorizing that so it becomes muscle memory. Keep memorizing openings and play on your training account. Now lets head on to the last phase.

The Almost Complete records.

Now that you have learned your opening, just play as much as you can on your training account. Try to do 5|5 games, or 10|5 games and use arrows and highlight squares to evaluate every possible line. That is exactly how you can learn any opening fairly quickly.

As a present for coming this far, lets review a game I played last night at the Team Pakistan Rapid Arena. My rating is 1030, and my opponents rating is 1900. Lets see how things unfolded.

Thanks for tuning in today , and tune in next time for another blog. That was one intense game!