Chess openings/theory - where do you even start?
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Oct 3, 2023
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I personally watch a video on the opening(yt), usually from gotham chess. Then, as i learn basics and ideas i use the lichess analysis board to find moves that are played most or give best winrate. If I have trouble with specific variation and lichess doesn’t help, I either google, watch a yt vid on this specific variation(chess giant and hanging pawns usually), or simply ask on this forum.
Oct 3, 2023
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Online stuff is garbage. 20-mimute YouTube videos by some random 1800 player on say, the Dragon, will get you nowhere.
You need to get out a board and pieces and study a book. In the beginning, you want beginner level opening books, like the Starting Out series from Everyman or other similar beginner level opening books. The ones that Quality Chess publish are for master and above. The Move By Move series is for 1800 through Expert level. First Steps is another series to look at for beginners. The my first opening repertoire books for White and Black is another.
You have to actually put in the time. Reading one page of a chess book is NOT like reading one page of a Novel. You ought to be able to read 10 pages of a novel faster than 1 page of a chess book.
YouTube videos are cr@p!
ThrillerFan wrote:
Online stuff is garbage. 20-minute YouTube videos by some random 1800 player on say, the Dragon, will get you nowhere.
I would agree, but a 10-part hourlong video essay series on the Semi-Slav by the St. Louis Chess Club is better, or a 50 minute video essay on a specific line of an opening by Miodrag Perunovic, a strong IM and one of chess’s best longtime coaches, is better.
Openings are complex ctreatures by their DNA alone. I like h4 as white these days. Don't be too aggressive too early. Never fear early equal exchanges. The more you experiment and lose, the more you will find new ways to win. Never fear losing a match. Failures are valuable lessons.
Buy a Beginners book on openings. Go through it with a physical board and find out what kind of positions you like and can manage. Then you can start digging deaper in these after lots of training and studies.
You don't need to buy anything. You do need to have a memory for what does and does not work in an opening. Opening is mobilization for plan A the middle game attack (which you need to identify threats on both sides.) Plan B is bale out into an endgame with good chances. Pleanty of GMs with online youtube videos for openings and loads on this site as well.
Oct 3, 2023
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GMegasDoux написал:
You don't need to buy anything. You do need to have a memory for what does and does not work in an opening. Opening is mobilization for plan A the middle game attack (which you need to identify threats on both sides.) Plan B is bale out into an endgame with good chances. Pleanty of GMs with online youtube videos for openings and loads on this site as well.
For me opening is a blitzkrieg to either destroy the opponent, or get into the middlegame with an advantage
I will be honest here, i am now not the quality googler available but i have been searching for a while and didn't discover whatever that was anywhere near what i'm searching out.
I am an ok chess player. I've played my whole existence, generally focusing on leaving no uncovered portions and seeking out forks/skewers and stuff.
In this sub, I maintain reading about openings and i really want to enhance that component of my game. I want to understand what to play if I want an open/closed recreation and so forth.
I preserve seeing humans pronouncing stuff like: "i've been learning the scandinavian recently" or "You must test out the french" etc. How do you even do this? Is there a good on-line aid as a way to let you know what openings to study and how to study them? Any type of database that tells you the famous traces to comply with and what to search for?