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So does the ‘25’ off mean 25% off, $25, or 25 cents 0.o

Does the ‘25’ off mean 25% off, $25, or 25 cents?

My normal rate is $40/hr and I'm temporarily reducing the price. The $30/hr rate is 25% off.

My question is how useful is this for just basic opening practice? In my case, I can go over KGA lines and be prepared in the short term, but 2 months go by and I don't play black against KG I forget everything I went over. Specifically, d6 seems to be the move I forget to make. Engines keep saying to play this and I just can't remember it months later. 

Spaced repetition is effective for openings. I use Chessable.com for this purpose.

My free 1.e4 repertoire should help get you started.

So, are there already tactics that are geared for isolating KG games and French, or should people really forget this and randomly do tactics to progress? This is my main hangup with tactics. I don't want to spend all day just solving one puzzle after the other. 

It's possible to isolate the tactics, and there are several thematic tactics courses on Chessable. However, random solving is necessary, and doing structured tactics methods should supplement this. You won't get enough volume otherwise! Solving tactics books by theme and motif is also a very effective way to improve.

Is there a way to present positions you would encounter 10 moves deep into an opening, where say only 2 moves are practical and the others might veer you down a declining path?

You can use the engine with it programmed to show it's top three lines. You can use this to check if there is a major difference between the third move and the top-two. If you are also looking for practicality, lichess.org has a non-master games database.

It would be like going to a database of master games and you can see that the top 3 moves have 10,000 games but the 4th move might only have 400 games. So, it seems like there could be positional (if not tactics) puzzles to help with openings and would present these positions that have a couple or few continuations. 

If your 1324 rating is accurate, positional chess is significantly less important than tactical improvement. I could recommend some sources for positional puzzles, but you would have to be strong at tactics to get a lot out of them.

If you can't remember the Qe2 move for example, you have to constantly go back and do the knight moves. Also, the explanations are all gone when it is testing you.

You can adjust your settings regarding how many repetitions you drill, how fast the computer presents you with the material, etc. When you miss a move, you see the annotations again. Active recall aids learning.

I would prefer to see a .pgn annotated version of this with reasons why you take the trades. Like, why allow dxe4? Why allow Qxc2? Why mess up your kingside with f4? 

There is a learning view and an informational view. By clicking on the title, you exit learning mode and can read without drilling. If you have questions, drop a comment on the relevant positions and authors often answer.

However, I am not seeing the explanations and the button for "Next Page" is grayed out.

Is there a way to just get the whole text as one instead of in chunks? 

Is there a collection of tactics by motif we can download to a .pdf file?

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Let's look at this example. I just finished a game where I didn't see my opponent's threat. But even if I did, how would I have known to play Bf4?

Awareness of motifs that allow for tactics. A glance at the position is enough for me to know that f2 and h2 are major weakness and it only takes around a second for me to see that ...Qh4 is a threat. Bf4 develops and defends against this threat, as Bg3 would protect both weaknesses. Training tactics can solve this issue. You can't avoid the issue by only training tactics in your opening! I've solved hundreds of thousands of tactics problems over the years and this pales in comparison to what I'll need to do if I want to achieve my long-term goals.