Chess is 99.999 percent openings

People hit the rating wall because of their repertoire, nothing else.  They improve once they settle on a repertoire by approaching its peak with better middlegame and endgame technique, but the Fred can go only so far.  Same for other trick openings.

People don't want to confront this so they look for magic opening courses and don't learn how to play the opening or build a repertoire, their poor foundation catches up with them, and they blame age while imputing magic powers on grandmasters who actually do book up as far as one must.

Not true at all. You can be a perfect book about all openings but without a middlegame plan you will lose every time.

You are right to some extent but you presented it wrong.

I disagree

Just like fielding only matters in the major leagues.

Which is easier to learn?

Guess.

Depends on whether or not one wishes to STAY under 2000 or not.

You mean like this?

1 e4 c5 2 d4 Nc6 3 d5 (+1.65). Black will magically come back right?

Of course.

What is your rating, how long have you been playing, and since you seem to know so much you can take over the thread. Anyone who wants to see me play can find me. I'm happy with my progress and all of it has been tied to opening prep, dating back forty years.

Fischer won with opening superiority. Anyone can learn how to close out a win a pawn or an exchange up. Try *getting* that type of position against a GM, which I've done many times.

If you break a game at move four with an infierior move it can't be reassembled.

Ok

As long as two humans are playing, it certainly can.

Maybe he is serious because he brought this up in another forum posts but now he made a thread about it

The mods need to recognize that and stop those threads but you have seen that they are not at that level yet.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/can-everybody-say-hello-vietnam

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/chess-player-in-boulder-co

That's called HOPE CHESS.

I'm talking about sound chess. There are no comebacks at the elite level. Strongest repertoire gets highest peak rating.

Said people who don't play me for money.

I get it: you, personally, don't like what I said. Noted.

Yes, censorship makes the truth go away.

I beat the fifth-ranked nine-year-old in the country a week ago, with black, over the board, at g55/d5. Outplayed him and most others in the opening.

Kasparov won the world title with his repertoire, as did Fischer, Kramnik, Botvinnik, Capablanca, Alekhine, Karpov, and just about every champion since.

Most champions even say openings are almost everything, most notably Bobby Fischer, but you know better.

This site runs USCF events so bans would be complicated, but it's good to know censorship is all anyone has beyond insults they'd never use to anyone's face.

You clearly don't watch elite chess very often.

Or maybe they train a lot harder than you and *know* it's right.

Ask the prodigy I dusted last week.