Memorizing formations

Hello everyone! Is it useful to memorize complete formations, like the Botvinnic? Thanks

what good would that do you ?   you must know basic strategies for certain key positions.    The more positions you know how to play, the better you should be.

So, when a grandmaster or master or expert or ....... reaches certain "known" positions ( known to him or her), he/she knows how best to play them  RATHER  THAN taking a great deal of time thinking of what to do.

This is especially true for endings, ie; to know Lucena's position for Rook and pawn versus Rook  or  when your King has the opposition in a King and pawn ending.   Those are basic positions. why are they basic ?  because any decent player over 1400 should be familiar with them.

Thank you For your answer HorsesGalore

Improving your general chess visualisation skills might help. Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I wrote about it recently:

http://becomingachessmaster.com/2015/04/25/how-to-improve-your-chess-visualisation-skills/

Thank you ThisisChesstiny I've checked your link. Very interesting! My question, however, was about memorizing a complete opening position, that is to say, where to place each piece; for example, the Botvinnic formation for white or the Hedgehog for black .