How to unlearn openings, lines, and popular checkmate patterns?
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NervesofButter is absolutely correct.
Play Chess960 or some other chess variant.
If that doesn’t appeal to you, then play a different new opening that you don’t know for every new game you play, and never look them up after your games, simply analyze on your own (re-invent the wheel at your level of understanding). Rely on your thinking method.
If that doesn’t appeal to you, then play a different new opening that you don’t know for every new game you play, and never look them up after your games, simply analyze on your own (re-invent the wheel at your level of understanding). Rely on your thinking method.
When I started I used analyse the board and would play the most logical move I am capable of thinking.
Now I know several openings, lines, and checkmate patterns. I can analyse the board quicker, I know better techniques, but I can no longer think! I am stuck in the realm of what I have learnt so far.
When I play a game now, usually I play some preset moves, and when the opponent plays something different, I no longer think, mostly in openings, instead I play what I am habituated to play in that number of move.
How to get rid of this bad habit?