- Memorizing Moves

- so some of the material says that you should not just memorize openings but learn the reasons and the fine points concerning each particular move of the opening 

- well with that in mind

- hypnothetical question - suppose you took the chess master program - and then played out all the possible moves on the middle four by four squares - like from the opening - like white pushed the middle pawn out one move and chess master did whatever - and you memorized it - - and well you memorized all of chess masters moves for all the combinations of the middle four by four squares - --- well without understanding the reason for the moves would you overnight become a great chess player or do you think there would be a flaw or downside to this possibility

- please please please - I know someone might think or say well it can be done there are ten kabillion to the tenth factorial combinations times 2 - - - please please please - - - it is a hypothetical question - 

- - - that basically if you memorized all of the first initial three or four or five possible chess master responses ( instead of learning and understanding opening )

- would you be an over night sensation

-- in other words who would win - -- if you took two clones and one memorized the fifty seven billion kazillion purmutations and combinations of all the responses by chess master to moves in the inside four by four squares

PLAYING AGAINST HIS CLONE WHO TOOK LESSONS MEMORIZED THE CHESS OPENING BOOKS and memorized ALL the openings and knew ALL the openings and knew the reason and tactics and strategy and purpose of EVERY move of EVERY opening

- so restating it - I would guess the clone that knew everything BUT I wonder so therefore I would like to ask the chess.com forum 

please and thank you

Have much time on your hands?

Some Grandmasters have gotten closer to this than you may think (by memorizing only the openings that they know they can force to happen).

But no matter who you are, eventually you have to "play chess" as they say.  Where the player has run out of memorized moves, and finds himself in a novel position.  Also worth mentioning is the very best opening moves will not get you more than a small advantage for white against correct play.

So to answer your question about becoming an overnight sensation, this would simply not happen.  Playing the first 3-5 moves hypothetically perfectly will not do much to help any player win a game (unless the opponent sabotaged his own position for you).

If you're asking which clone would win a game of chess, the one that hypothetically understands everything would win of course :)  But out of the opening the position would be very equal.

Situations similar to this hypothetical question happen all the time.  I'll play a young player who has spent time to memorize 10 moves of an opening I happen to know well.  Out of the opening they're playing like a grandmaster (so am I).  But once we leave book their position falls apart.