How can I memorize chess openings?

You can study wikipedia articles, read books, watch videos online, buy courses in the webshop https://shop.chess.com. There's lots of things that you can do to help you learn openings.

To put it mildly, the Chessable move trainer sucks badly, especially when the course is not made properly (which is about 90% of the offered courses).

A single move (no alternatives, they aren't even mentioned) is shoved down your throat until you repat it by yourself, like a parrot. Like that, usually with no explanations why this move is preferrable to move XYZ, and offering tips for understanding why you play this, or that.

Studying chessable courses will probably make you learn many opening moves, but certainly enough not playing better chess.

Usefulness? Somewhere around zero.

I don’t completely disagree with you. But is this really the topic of the post? It’s a young company with a fantastic idea. Magnus agrees and bought the company.

Thanks for this post. It keeps the original question about learning openings alive and provides another resource.

Thank you ramksrid for your post!! You did not miss anything. likesforests did though.
Thanks for posting. You have kept the post alive with your sensitive but direct post.

Your post is spot on. Thanks for posting and keeping the thread alive so I could read it almost 10 years later.

To: Thijs
I think you hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the nod to Bookup. I'd never heard of it before today. Resources like this are priceless.
Thanks also for being the real deal and still taking time to respond to a newcomer like the OP.

you don't need to remember openings, just pick some openings that you think your comfortable with. that is one of the way to improve.

There are no need to learn more than 1 openings, just use one opening no matter how the opponent response. Opening does not matter, middlegame and endgame would determine whether you will win the game or not. It is much better to find out your own playing style, such as attacking chess/defensive chess/counterattack chess/aim to win in time chess.

you can memorize chess openings with your brain

I want to know if the opening is important because my opening is very bad I think it's call English opening

english opening is not bad

This is english, its a good opening that control the center with a wing pawn and not allowing black to move to d5.

Step 1: write moves down on paper

Step 2: eat the paper

Step 3: profit

indeed. I've always advocated for memorization as opposed to "learning", "understanding" Openings. Study openings, practice, gain experience + ingraining lines & variations that are distilled by Centuries of Praxis, tweaked or reworked or totally innovatively revamped, honed. Memorization of Classic Lines , Variations I would put extreme emphasis. Fundamental stuff like QGD lines. You guys of this Generation have more resources and Players now a days to draw from... However, the basics are always the same~whether it be Endgame themes, Rudimentary tactics & Combos or Positional Strategy~Memorization (or loosely "Pattern Recognizance") is Always Key

Especially in Opening. And building your Repertoire that you will probably use, enhance, and uniquely claim as your own.

I have two suggestions.

1. Write down the moves.

    Play them over and over and over again with your move sheet used only to make sure if you feel you might be making a different move than the one on the sheet.

2. Don't worry about memorising openings. Rather try to understand the idea behind those moves instead of memorising them. Understanding concepts out performs any amount of memory bank you might have

Im not talking about chessable as I've never even seen the site myself.. but I agree that these methods are useless for overall chess understanding

You should learn good opening principles and try to develop in opening properly memorizing is not good way to learn openings longterm.

A common method for memorizing openings lines is to use Chess Opening Wizard, formerly known as Bookup. Chess Position Trainer is a free alternative.

NOPE! i hated bookup and quit chess 10 years ago because NO ONE made a book editor/trainer that worked with TREES! variations within variations within variations (yeah chessbase! i'm talking TO YOU!!! and bookup too, only bookup is a really nice guy who talks to POTENTIAL customers) is a confusing ABOMINATION!!!!!!!!!!!

if you want to write your own books and study them, go to chess tempo! they have an INTUITIVE book editor that works with trees so you can QUICKLY navigate your theory with simple backtracking (impossible with walls of variations within variations... i've seen theory so dense online that i can't even follow a single line because of that crap) and boom... you're on to your NEXT 7...? move. i don't like that it skips the first moves to where you're struggling to learn by default, but there's settings to change that.

i'm going nuts trying to ACQUIRE theory so i can start playing it, but pruning big databases and notating it by hand with evaluations takes forever! the upside is the theory is so much better than books because it's battle tested, refined, includes ALL of the out of book theory, and most importantly, is predictive. you can see the future the same way an engine looks at plies, but with human tested and approved moves. once i get my books complete, i can probably enter one in under a day easily.

the EASIEST way to do it is to watch opening videos and play along with them in tempo's book editor, though it gets hard when freakin commercials interrupt you elbow deep in a video and OPs don't give you move lists or sometimes even name moves making backtracking for new lines a pain, but i created a monte carlo french book in just a couple hours off a video. i quit training though when my lines were skipping to move 10+ because the default setting THOUGHT i had 1-10 memorized only to be dropped into confusing messes. i've reset my defaults, but have been writing theory.