New player - how to memorize openings.

Ignorants will tell you that the battle starts in the opening.

No bigger mistake than this.Whenever one tries to emphasize the importance of opening he simply tries to make you do the same mistake he did.

Against a better player , you stand no chance even if he plays on purpose an opening that he has never studied or simply a wrong opening.Why is that? Because obviously the battle of chess starts from how you study , how you develop your skills and how much you understand.

    So the question is how to develop your skills and which are the critical skills to develop.

    The truth is that you need openings. Yes, indeed you do but there is a big problem.Openings don't help you improve skills and with no skills , they are practically worthless. They will offer you some wins or some good results against equally skilless players but overall they are a waste of time for a beginner.

     Until you are able to develop a proper thinking process and improve your ability to analyse the position properly there is no point to study openings. First , because no one will play theory. Second , because even if someone plays theory , you will play , let's say 15 correct moves and you will blunder and lose 5 moves after theory ends.

    Either you play 5 moves you don't understand and you lose on move 10 or 15 moves you don't understand and you lose on move 20 , the result is the same. Or not? You might say that " why should anyone want to lose in 10 moves if he can lose in 20 or 30?" Good question. The problem with chess is that there are no shortcuts. If you attempt to bypass important knowledge you will eventually pay the price. So regarding learning it is much better to lose in 10 moves and learn what you did wrong. Eventually you will be able to play the opening perfectly and then studying openings will have much better results.

    All you need from the opening is a playable position , nothing else.Nothing else!

The ones that need to study openings to do that in beginner level are simply ignorants that don't understand some very important things and opening theory only covers their ignorance. You don't want that, trust me!