no, i have looked at your tatics trainer rating, and you probably dont know how to respond becuse of your lack of knowledge in tatctics, strategy and positional play. you wont need to know alot about openings on your level.
Best Way To Study Chess Openings
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Step 1 is standardizing an opening repertoire. You need one move for every reasonable opponent move. Make smart choices that lead you to the type of middle game you want. I recommend watching some videos to get you about 6-8 moves deep across the board. Use Chess Position Trainer to enter your choices. As you are entering your choices, take notes about the positions in the box below the board. Note the opening principles involved, common plans based on the pawn structure, weak pawns/squares, etc.
Next you need to train your opening repertoire so you know it backwards and forwards. This means not just memorizing the lines/responses, but also the notes you took on each of them.
Finally, as you play games using these choices, each time your opponent makes a move you don't have a plan for, after the game go add it. Do some research and see what move you should learn for that response and add any important lines and notes.
As you go, you will want to deepen some lines by necessity.
Finally, some people will poo-poo learning openings at all. Don't listen to them. Standardizing your opening repertoire is a big step and will allow you to get very good at playing those types of positions. Most of the time when people tell you not to learn openings, they are talking about not just memorizing lines without having any idea what the moves mean. Note that my advice does not say to do that, either.
Finally, don't neglect the other areas of the game. Studying openings is important, but don't count on it to win games for you. It certainly can, and when you become very good at understanding how to play the positions you are getting over and over again, it can almost feel like cheating. Occasionally, an opponent will step out of your repertoire and onto a landmine that you can blow up in his face, too. Most of the time, though, the opening study is going to get you to a playable middle game with hopefully an advantage if you are white that you can coax into a full point, or as close to equality as you can manage if you are black. You will also want to work hard on basic tactics, basic middle game strategy, and some basic endings.
Good luck.
That is tru. iv actually startd to notice that wen im playing a game my end game is practically garbage. I really dont know how to respond to certain situations. Thank you for the advice MJ4H
Thank you MJ4H
Are there in tips or ways that can help me to progress through my middle games and play my endgames more effectively
Thats pretty helpful. Thank you
You're not an okay chess-player. 1400 approx is av rating. You need to study/learn the principles of the game in more depth.
I agree with the guy above. You are delusional if you think you are an "ok player." Your ratings are sub-novice, at best. There are many people that don't even know the rules to the game that could play better than you.
Harshful criticism but i will take them to heart
netzach, that's not true- look at the chess.com rating curves- over 1200 is better than average
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That is tru. iv actually startd to notice that wen im playing a game my end game is practically garbage. I really dont know how to respond to certain situations. Thank you for the advice MJ4H
I'm surprised you even make it to an endgame at your level.
I can actually play but i make a lot of mistakes that causes me to lose a game or prolong it wen i could hav won
Is your endgame better than your spelling?
Idk maybe you should challenge me to a game to find out.
You're getting advice from players that can't do it themselves, really have deep think about that. Don't worry about learning openings. I've NEVER cared about them until now. Only now am I trying to learn openings, its one reason I joined this site.
Study ENDGAMES. Very basic, simple positions. Keep it simple. Don't just do tactic test positions, get a book explaining the ideas behind them. Study pawn structures. They tell you how to form a PLAN. Planning is huge. Read the middlegame and endgame books by Silman. I don't know openings well at all but I can beat players at your level blindfolded. That's not an insult, its reality, and I need to improve a lot. So its all relative whether you play well or not. I don't consider myself very good
Thank you for the suggestions. Iv actually been reading a book by Silman. So you have given me a clear conscious that iv picked the right book
Can't do what themselves?
I cant believe some of the rude comments on this thread. I'm sorry Denny for some of these people. They should be ashamed of themselves for being so callous. Just play and have fun..thats the main thing..if you like reading books, have at it..but you can learn a lot just playing
Im an okay chess player but i know a limited amount of chess openings. so when i play certain games, i dont know how to respond, so i jus go with my gut feeling. I feel like i should widen my verizon of chess openings, but i dont know how. Any suggestions.