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"have bigger opening repertoire or stick to one" ++Stick to one to accumulate experience.
"As white I stick only to Queens Gambit" ++ Good.
"As black I reply on d5 with principles of QGD" ++ Good.
"For e4 I like caro-kann" ++ Good.
"if I should stick and improve by playing what I already know" ++ Yes.
"try to play a lot of variations and openings to gain more experience?" ++ No.
Hello,
As you can see I have rating of around 1500 so I am somehow post beginner - intermediate player. I would like to get opinions if it is good in this stage to have bigger opening repertoire or stick to one.
I of course do not study openings in this stage, I just learn them randomly from instructive games so I do not know intense theory but only principles and like couple of moves.
As white I stick only to Queens Gambit (learned that pretty good from Chernevs book Logical Chess). I recently discovered English Opening (couple of games from book The Art of Logical Thinking) but I just can't use to it and get a lot of messy positions.
As black I reply on d5 with principles of QGD which I know as white so I know how to play as black too. For e4 I like caro-kann and play 90% of time that and recently from book The Art of Logical Thinking I learned basics of sicilian defence.
So my question here, for improving purpose, is if I should stick and improve by playing what I already know decently or to try to play a lot of variations and openings to gain more experience?
I must mention that I do not have opponents which who I play often so no need to have variety of weapons.