Studying Chess Openings and Ideas
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How much time should I invest daily on a book if I want to learn an opening? Or should I prefer Chesscom's book explorer over the book to learn and memorize opening lines?
Apr 14, 2024
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Depends on the book, and you do NOT want to memorize. You want to UNDERSTAND the opening you are studying. I spend about 20 percent of the time studying openings. Otherwise, I spend the rest of the time studying books on strategy, endgames, and game collections (i.e. Korchnoi, Short, Bhat, or some tournament).
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"How much time should I invest daily on a book" ++ Grandmasters spent like 4 hours to play 1 game, so you should spend no less than 4 hours to study it.
"if I want to learn an opening?" ++ There is no need to.
"learn and memorize opening lines?" ++ 'Chess must not be memorized' - Lasker
'Memorization of variations could be even worse
than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.' - Botvinnik
'just forget about the openings and spend all that time on the endings' - Capablanca