1200 is time to start memorizing openings
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NMRhino
Oct 16, 2022
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#21
You don’t need to know any opening up until 1600. And you don’t need to actually start memorizing the lines in them until 2000
Kramnik didn't say he "studies" 10,000 games a month - he said he "looks through" them to see any new trends or ideas (which means he's mainly looking at the opening phase only).
If he's like most players, he is pulling up games from a database and tapping the right-arrow key quickly, while browsing through the moves. He'd only stop if he sees something interesting.
It should take an average tournament player about 30 seconds to look through a game, in this way. For Kramnik, he might spend 10 seconds or less on an opening, before deciding it's uninteresting and moving onto the next game.
Oct 16, 2022
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#23
IronSteam1 wrote:
Kramnik didn't say he "studies" 10,000 games a month - he said he "looks through" them to see any new trends or ideas (which means he's mainly looking at the opening phase only).
If he's like most players, he is pulling up games from a database and tapping the right-arrow key quickly, while browsing through the moves. He'd only stop if he sees something interesting.
It should take an average player about 30 seconds to look through a game, in this way. For Kramnik, he might spend 10 seconds or less on an opening, before deciding it's uninteresting and moving onto the next game.
This seems more plausible.
Oct 16, 2022
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#24
IronSteam1 wrote:
Kramnik didn't say he "studies" 10,000 games a month - he said he "looks through" them to see any new trends or ideas (which means he's mainly looking at the opening phase only).
If he's like most players, he is pulling up games from a database and tapping the right-arrow key quickly, while browsing through the moves. He'd only stop if he sees something interesting.
It should take an average tournament player about 30 seconds to look through a game, in this way. For Kramnik, he might spend 10 seconds or less on an opening, before deciding it's uninteresting and moving onto the next game.
It is also worth noting he was not doing that in the early 1990s when Chess Informant was the way recent games were distributed. That is what he was doing as a World Champion looking for interesting ideas. The notion of doing that as a way for a beginner to improve is silly.
@21
Kramnik said he worked 7 days per week, 10 hours per day. That is 300 hours per month.
After a while he decided to work only 6 days per week and he felt a decline in ability.
Also 'I have only one talent: a talent for hard work' - Kasparov
