Practice to learn book openings?
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FlasSquid
May 12, 2020
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#1
I have a diamond level membership. Where is the best place to practice and learn book openings? For example I want to learn Queens gambit declined plain white. Where do I go where it will show me all these moves? I must be missing something obvious! I’m using the app on my iPad. Where do I go for this??
May 12, 2020
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#2
@FlasSquid please navigate to https://www.chess.com/openings. Again you can use the analysis tool (https://www.chess.com/analysis). Hope these help. Please note that book moves are limited. Usually up-to 6 to 10 moves. After that all are good moves, excellent moves, best moves etc.
May 12, 2020
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#3
There is a brief lesson on 1. d4 openings at https://www.chess.com/lessons/key-openings. The opening explorer is a reasonable tool. For instance after the defining moves 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 it shows that basically 3. Nc3 and 3. Nf3 are played (the latter usually leads to the Catalan). After choosing 3. Nc3 you see several moves, which have more than a thousand games, these lead to the main variations of Queen's Gambit declined. Going through the most popular moves will give you an idea of the opening. You can also click the games and go through some of the games as a whole.
May 13, 2020
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#4
Thx very much! I had Chessmaster 2000 for my PC about 20 years ago and I learned a lot of openings by following your book trainer. I was hoping chess.com had something like that.
Go to videos and sort by openings. You can find a lot of instructive content that explains the plans behind the openings. The search function is not so good though - if your search doesn’t turn up anything try rephrasing your query
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