Whats the way: Memorizing openings or puzzles?
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On your level, you can forget about memorizing openings or puzzles. Just don't hang pieces and take your opponent's hanging pieces plus know a few basic checkmating patterns and you are already better than your current level.
Fet wrote:
On your level, you can forget about memorizing openings or puzzles. Just don't hang pieces and take your opponent's hanging pieces plus know a few basic checkmating patterns and you are already better than your current level.
Thank you indeed - I think out of my gut, you are right on the spot
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I’ve started to study openings intensively. However, I now think that memorizing openings might be the wrong approach compared to learning tactical patterns intuitively through puzzles, and then, after intensive training, making instinctive decisions based on those recognized patterns (from solving puzzles).
This view is based on the fact that when watching games of very strong players, you can see that the strongest players already deviate from the “in-the-book” lines as early as move three. Your videos show this as well.
What do you think about this? Are puzzles, playing a lot, and recognizing mistakes a much more effective way to develop naturally as a chess player than rigidly memorizing openings?