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Hello everyone me and my coach have been talking and I wanted to post this question. (Is it a good idea to study openings just for th middle game for the same concepts.) For instance say your a tactical player so you play the bishops opening and to get better at your tactical play you study the scotch since it is also a tactical opening but you have no desire to play the scotch opening in the future and you just sstudy it's game's to learn some tactical ideas since it's also a tactical opening. (A simple yes or no explaination is fine also.)

Thats one way..

but you also learn the Scotch so you can play the opening correctly if your opponent uses the scotch, so that way your prepared and you won't get killed in the opening stage.

Nothing that you study can hurt you. However, time is limited. I submit that studying openings is not the most effecient method for sharpening your tactics. Study of general tactical motifs is a surer road to strength in any given tactical opening, and in the tactics that ultimately will emerge even from so-called positional openings.

I further submit that most amateurs worry far to much over opening preparation, and by devoting most of their study time to such matters actually retard their pace of improvement.

Tactics training that is not opening specific and endgame study should occupy far more of your time than work on openings.

I suggest you work on tactics from books or programs, tactics trainer here is kinda bad due to most positions not having occured in real life.

Studying openings is good, but from what i saw when i played you, you should work on tactics more because your good opening wise.