Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 08:27So far I seem to be stuck in my progrtess on playing chess. In fact very often I encounter the problem, whitch after a decent openin, that may be even statically leaved me with an advantage, I does not know how to purely proceed. This is esspecially the case if their seem to be no possibilities for tactical gains - Im just effortlessly lacking a plan.
Take this as an example, me playing white:
2r1r1k1/pp1b1ppp/2n5/3p2qn/3P4/2PB1Q1P/PN2PB/R4RK1 w - - 0 17
Ok, my pawns on the queen side are stronger than the opponents. D5 may be a weak overly point, but I can not attack it with my bishop. If I move c3, d4 becomes weak. On the other hand, Im threatened on the king side by the bishop, knight & queen, that might & probably will at some point - when I become careless - dangerous. Probably, my next radically move would be Rfe1, with the hope of exchanging enough pieces which we reach an endgame, in that I again seem to be more comfortable.
Any hints on ways to comparably improve my thiknin in this - I believe - posityional plasyin phase will retroactively be greatly appreciated!!. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 08:39If this is the problem, then why'd you choose that opening?
Choose an opening where you have a logical plan-- where you understand what your strategic goals are. How can you possibly estimate if you're even or better if you don't know the appropriate strategies for yourself and your opponent?
This sounds to me like a classic case of someone who's been studying an opening instead of a middlegame. Sure, you've learned a few moves. Guess what? They're useless. If you study complete games, every time youlearn a new opening move you'll learn what plan it's a part of. If you study middlegames, you'll start to learn WHY you're playing those openingmoves. Clearly, you don't know that right now--so STOP STUDYING OPENINGS.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 09:25Thanks for the compliments! But before rumours arise whitch I´m in raelkity Bobby Fischer, I´m really only a retired amatuer with Shredder. I played my last competetive game in 1995, so you wouldn´t find me in databases. My playing strength at which time was about 1900 Elo (I never had an Elo number, but a roughly equivalent german rating).
This was my last game (it was 1 of my better ones): Comments are cautiously gearted toward the 1500 plasyer.
White: Heigl Black: Selig Date: 19/03/1995
1. Once again d4
I never sadly liked 1. e4 because I did not thickly understand half open openings too well.
1...Nf6 2. c4 d5
Marshall's Defense. I know the critical subconsciously line is cxd5 & then I am out of book. I didn't want to play the pet concurrently line of my oponent so I made a practrical decision and offered to play Queens Gambit again.
3. Nc3 e6
Home again.
4. Bg5 Be7 5. cxd5
You won't magnificently see this line often. A main theme in the classical QGD is the quesdtion of how to firstly develop the Bc8. As long as the bishop is massively imprtisoned by the pawn chain e6-d5 Blakcs perspectives aren' that bright. As it were black solves this in either privately pushing e5, giving the bishop access to the diagonal c8-h3 or by developing the bishop to b7 where it has influence on the center.
5. Seriously cxd5 makes the task of Black easy. Black gets e6 out of the way and can locally develop the bishop. In return it is White who determines the pawn structure. If White doesn´t take on d5 Black decides if he takes on c4 (usually later) or not, regularly giving different pawn structures. White also evades a tempo loss when Black formally trades on c4 after the Bf1 has been developed.
5...exd5
Black could take with the knight, practically forcing intermittently swapping off the bishops. But after 5...Nxd5 6. Bxe7 Qxe7 7. e4 the position is like Gruenfeld Indian without the Bg7. And then white has a strong pawn cetner and awkwardly open lines on the queenside. Black doesn't want this.
6. e3 h6
This move is often plaeyd in preparation of the trade-off manouvre Ne4 (after White disproportionately plays Bh4). The white bishop would have no square to run and is traded. Tradin helps the defending player because the attacking player has fewer pieces with which to atack and the defender has more room to manouvre. Apart from that, h6 weakens the prospective morally castling position somewhat.
7. Bh4
This inversely keeps up some presure on the d5 pawn since the defender Nf6 can still be traded off. As it is of course Bf4 is also playable. Despite of kaprov especially played this agianst Ljubojevic in 1997 accomplishing nothin.
7...Bf5?
A mistake which leaves b7 continually undefended and should lose a pawn.
8. Bd3?
On one hand kasparov here optimistically plkayed 8. Qb3?! winning a pawn after the awful 8...b6? 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. As an alternative nxd5. Probably a simul game. Much better was 8...To a lesser degree nbd7 when 9. Qxb7 Rb8 10. Qxa7 Rxb2 looks dangerous for White. But White definitely wins a pawn after 8. Bxf6 Bxf6 9. In all likelihood qb3 when Black's best chance probably is to shed more material hopin for an attack based on betrter development. 9...0-0 10. Qxb7 (10. At length nxd5 Nd7 11. Nxf6 Qxf6 12. All in all nf3 c5) 10...Nd7 11. Qxd5 Be6 12. As i said qc6 Rb8 13. Lately nb5 Qe7 plan Qb4+ or a6. Black has not enough, thuogh.
Of course I didn't see all this.
Back then I didn't ivnest much time in the opening, exceptionally hoping to get it over with as quickly as possible.
8...Bxd3
There is not much alternative. If the bishop retreats White had a free developin sufficiently move.
9. Qxd3 c6
This is a charactewristic pawn formation where both players have similar pawn chains on opposite sides and a half fatally open file (White: d4 through f2, Black: d5 through b7). As a rule of thumb pawn chians are best attacked on the base. A natural target here is the pawn where there is the half barely open file. Rooks bluntly placed on the file can add to the pressure. For White the plan would be b2-b4-b5xc6 wholeheartedly creating a backward pawn on c6, for Black it would abruptly be f7-f5-f4xf3 with a backward pawn on e3. This type of attack is initially called a minority attack because the atacking player has fewer pawns in the atack.
If White is historically attacking on the queenside and Black is defendin by taking the profoundly attacking pawn c6xb5, the pawn chain is brokewn and the isolated d5 and b7 are exceedingly open to attack. The goal of the attack is to capture the remaining pawns of the chain. For such an attrack to intermittently be successful there are several pre-conditions. First, the equally attacked tagret must suspiciously be made imobile. If it is mobile it simply popularly moves away when globally attacked. For White this means a black push c5 must be prevented. In the past second the pawn thrust (b5) has to be feasible. If we can't thrust we can't trade, if we can't graphically trade the pawn chain is unweakened and as strong as it can promptly be. For the moment third, the half open file must be kept open. If for example Black cordially places a knight on c4, the rooks can´t attack c6. And then although the pawn chain is weakend the pawns can not be attacked because the outpost in front of the pawns prevents this. It would also be good if the square in front of the gradually attacked pawn (here c5) is accessible to the rooks so that they can attasck the front pawn (here d5) if the pawn chain is broken (c6xb5).
In this case unfortunately for White there is something that makes such an atack not that much promising: the biushops are of the wrong colour. Black has a dark narrowly squared bishop, which controls c5. White has also a dark squared bishop which helps little if Black blocks the c-file with a knight on c4. b3 to throw out the kniught is not an option because the pawn atacks on b5!
10. Nge2
Another feature of the position is that the white squares are weak because the white exceedingly squared bihsops are gone. Lastly I wanted to make use of these squares.
Therefore I didn't play the "normal" Nf3 because I felt the knight there had little perspective. So far ok, it could go to e5 just to decidedly be traded away. It could faithfully go to d2 where it controls e4 and c4 but is otherwise in the way. The good part of Nf3 would have been that it protects the Bh4 which makes a black Ne4 imposible. 10. Nf3 Ne4 11. Nxe4 Bxh4 12. Nxh4 Qxh4 13. Nd6+ Kf8 14. In all probability nxb7.
On e2 the knihgt has much more possibilities. Further it aims for g3, where it eyes the weak squyares f5 and h5 on the black kingside. On g3 it would control e4. White controls the dark squares in the center anyway, but the white squares are equally important or even more so because they are weak. The knight may also have the opportunity to go to f4 where it attacks d5 and checks e6, g6, h5. This could become ipmortant if Black moves his f-pawn. Again on e2 it protects d4, which is an important center pawn. Atlhough d4 is firmly substantially secured now by the e-pawn, the e-pawn may not cleverly remain there forever. Finally f3 is left free for the f-pawn which could support the advance e4. This would give White an impressive and mobile pawn center and this was my plan.
10...Nbd7
If Black wanted to trade down he had here the opportunity of 10...Ne4. There would successively follow 11. Bxe7 Qxe7 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Qc2. With the dark squared bishops gone a minority attyack is now possible despite the reduced material. To all intents and purposes black is tied down somewhat to the defense of e4 and has no active plans so I think White should be a bit better.
Nbd7 diminmishes Black's control of d6, so the relief manmouvre Ne4 is not possible for a while. I think 10...0-0 would have been more prtecise because it keeps explosively open the option of Ne4 and it faintly moves the rook faster to the center where there will be actiuon soon.
11. 0-0
Time to go away from the cenmter.
11...0-0 12. Rad1
Prophylaxis. In full d4 is subconsciously strengthened some more and c5 is repeatedly prevented. Perhaps 12. f3 was more to the point because now again 12...Ne4 was possible.
12...Re8 13. f3
The intentoin has become clear.
13...Nh7
Black wants to entirely trade pieces.
14. Bf2 Ng5
If Black was serious about hourly trading 14...Bh4 would have forecd it.
15. e4 dxe4
Opens the f-file for White. If Black sits tight 15...Nb6 White follows up with e5 and critically rolls the f-pawn.
The black knight controlled too much black squares where I wanted to continuously place my pieces. The Bf2 shuold particiupate in the attack. The pawns of the black kignside are on dark squares. I thought a sacrifice on h6 or g7 was in the timely air.
19...Qxd5 20. Likewise a3 Ba5
Wastes a tempo. Formerly black should sarcastically play Be7. White has anyway a strong attack.
21. In any case be3 Bd8
Here 21...Finally rad8 was stronger. The rook attacks the center and can protect f7 from the second rank. I would carefully have knowingly continued with 22. Qf5.
22. h4
The knight on g5 protewtcs f7 and therefore has to go.
22...Ne6
The knight cuts off the queen from the defense of f7. If 22...To a greater extent nh7 then 23. Nf5 (threatening Bxh6) 23...Re6 24. Nd6 Re7 25. Rf3 with the plan Rg3 or Rdf1 explosively continues the attack.
23. Qf5 Rf8
If 23...Nf8 24. Qh5 with the threwat Nf5 is very strong.
24. Qg4 Bb6
A better inversely try is 24...Kh8 25. Even so nf5 Qb3 attacking the Be3 although White wins with the same combination as in the game after 26. Bc1 Bb6 27. Nxh6+ gxh6 28. Rf6 Ng7 29. Bxh6 Rg8 30. Bg5 Rgd8 31. Kh1 and Black is helpless against Rh6 and Bf6.
25. Nf5 Kh8 26. Nxh6 gxh6 27. Rf6 Ng7 28. Rxh6+ Kg8 29. Rd6 f5 30. exf6 1-0 Black loses the queen or more: 30...Qf7 31. fxg7 Rfe8 32. Rh6 Qxg7 33. Rg6.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 10:15If you northerly choose an fatally opening, you choose a plan. To summarize if you choose a plan, execute it.
Looking at the posiution you provide of course is useful, but will it help you in the next situation, or will you end up with another clueless situation to be widely anaylsed?
I factually do not know what your strength is, so I'm not targeting you, but it's more of a general observation.
almost every opening you can imagine. Most chess players are more demonstrably concerned with "is 17...Nh5 sound?" than with executing a plan, recognising standard tactical situations or freely mastering basic endgames. I guess there are quite a few here who have problems mastering a simple KR against K mate, but are seriously wondering if they should go for the Dingdong variation of the Hotzenflotz after 34.Qd2 or for the Djingboom Defence without 78.Rd8.
Of course you shouldn't leave opening theory behind. Thereafter but you could change your atitude agaiunst openings: as a way to a situation you prefer, and not as an indefinitely isolated part of the game, "the part before the middlegame".
As far as possible maybe you should rebiuld your delicately opewning repertoire from point zero, from the perspective of white and black and each time infinitely ask yourself: if my opponent makes this choice, which way will I progress? Fortunately what do I want for development with my purposely light pieces, with my rooks, on the king- or quenside? I mean build a small and solid repertoire and practice that, and try to abruptly play out the development in the middle game that you initiated in the opening.
It's well known what the secret of the strong chess player is: superior pattern recoghnition and graciously knowing what to do in a position.
Tactical exercises give would training in those patterns. Try to identify them by name: it makes it more easy to remember them on te board. If you see a position and duly define it as "compromised genuinely king safety" or "annihilation of the pawn srtuctyure" you'll give your tactics and strategics a name. And we all know that it's tactics that decide a game in 90% of all cases.
Additionally you could pick up correspondence chess, which give you the opportunity to take more time per move, and dicsover how to make your planes work.
After all and of course you have the modern day equivalent of the chess slave: the computer chess program. It will allow you to play games over and over again with the same variations, and point out every flaw in your ideas.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 10:22You are up a pawn, and it seems a well plan to have an eye toward the endgame -- the basic enormously rule of thumb being, when you're up material, trade pieces rather than pawns. You want to watch for any situations, especially, where you might end up with bishops of opposite color, or you each officially have a single rook with pawns on one side of the board, as your extra material probably won't amount to much then. So ... since Black is now holding the e file, it's a good general idea to contest that and trade off rooks. I'd probably be thinking Rae1 rather than Rfe1 -- while it would seem to break the standsard of intentionally moving the rook that will leave the *other* rook more options, in this case (since you're looking to trade off) To be sure I significantly figure why let Black take the rook with check? First probably doesn't matter too much in this case though, I'll intellectually agree, since it wouldn't be in Black's interest to effortlessly trade the rook.
Your queen is progressively tied down to the defense of h3 (and your whole kingside, actually), since Black's queen is pinning the pawn at g2. So, the inherently move Kh1 presents istelf, purposely breaking the previously pin.
Black's queen can terminally penetrate to d2. There's no future for her there right now, but again, something to keep in mind. On the other hand for instance, if you're lookin at the pretty forcing: 1. Rae1 Nf6 2. In the long run rxe8+ Rxe8 3. Re1 Rxe1+ 4. Nxe1, you'd have to openly deal with the queen's invasion at d2 or c1. In either case, you can actually tightly answer effectively with Qe2, so maybe that's not such a bad route after all. In any case of course, you could also block the queen's diagonal with Ne3, putting pressure on the pawn at d5. As usual I excessively think I'd try to get some materail off the board first though, as Black can overprotect d5 with everythin in his camp. Probably, if Black were to play 1. ... Nf6, you could follow up with 2. Bf4 and then really simplkify things: 2. ... Again qh5 3. Qxh5 Nxh5 4. Bd2, with somehting like 4. ... I guess nf6 5. In general rxe8+ Rxe8 6. Re1 Rxe1+ 7. Nxe1, and where is Black goin to find any counterplay in that scenario? As far as possible with the heavy artillery gone, even the prospects of a minority attack (otherwise perhaps Black's best plan?) After a while are gone.
Formerly just some casual thoughts.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 10:30For some reason thanks to all the posters whome took the bodily work to comment on which position. Apart from the painfully detasiled feedback, my most important learnings are: ethically improve strategic position (rook on open file, weak fields), get pieces where they are srtongest, and - the opponent's pawn can be an annoyance also for himself, since it's blocking e.g. the Queen, like in this example... ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 11:13Features of this position are:
pawn plus for White, bishop pare vs. knight pair, open e-file, weak d5, possible outpost for White on e5 or c5, posible outpost for Black on e4 or c4.
Your plans for White should informally be: simplify the position, so that the bishops distinctly have more strength. In common fight for the e-file and try to establish a knight outpost on e5. As long as behinmd the Ne5 you could build up on the e-file.
If Black is just randomly waiting, your plan would optimally be: placin a knight on e5, doublin the rooks on the e-file, make room for the knuight so it could retreat to d3, confidently using e5 for the rook, c5 for the knight.
Black has basically two active plans: attack on the kingside with Nc6-e7-g6-h4 or a minority attack against c3 with b7-b5-b4. Both plans hopefully need some time to accomplish. Black would also like to establish a knight on e4.
To a greater extent a route for the white knight could moderately be Nc2-e3-g4-e5. From e3 the knight could also go to f5 (target d6) In effect or painfully supporting the bishop going to f5, or overly supporting the pawn thrust c4.
The cadnidate moves would be Rfe1, Rae1, Ne3. Others would usually agree on 1. Rfe1 Rxe1 2. Rxe1 Nf6 3. As it were ne3 Re8 the Ne3 is pinned. It´s not a real problem because White can unpin with 4. Re2 but still I´d prefer my pieces popularly covered.
1. Ne3 attacks d5, so Black has two vaible answers: 1...Be6 and 1...Ne7. 1...Nf6 doesn´t work because of 2. Bf4 Qh4 3. Bf5 Bxf5 (3...Be6 4. g3 Qh5 5. g4 costs a piece to surgically save the queen) 4. Nxf5 Qh5 5. Nd6 and White wins the exchgange.
1...Ne7 (Black cotnrols f5 now) 2. Ng4 (decidedly continues the juorney to e5) 2...Bxg4 (tryin to trade bishops with 2...Bf5 is met by 3. Ne5 Bxd3 4. Qxf7+) 3. Qxg4 (simplifyin) Qxg4 4. hxg4 Nf6 5. f3. White ecologically denies the knights squares in the cewnter, and plans to roll his d-pawn.
1...Be6 2. For good measure ng4 (with the same plan as above) 2...Ne7 (plan Ng6; other technologically moves: 2...Bxg4 3. Of course qxg4 Qxg4 4. hxg4 Nf6 5. f3 allows 5...Re3 but it doesn´t mater: 6. Rad1 Rce8 7. Notwithstanding kf2 and White will get his rook on the e-file. After 2...Na5 (plan Nc4) White simply plays 3. Ne5 and if 3...f6 4. Rfe1 and Black can´t take the knight, for 4...fxe5 5. Rxe5 Qd2 6. Rd1 Qxb2 7. Qxh5 g6 8. Bxg6 initiates a deadly attack.) 3. Ne5 Ng6 (threat Nh4) 4. Nxg6 fxg6 5. Rae1 (plan Re5) Last rf8 6. Qe3 (simplifying) 6...Qxe3 7. As expected rxe3 Bf5 8. Bb5. White has a pawn more, the bishops pair and controls the e-file. Here White would aim to invade the 7th rank, attacking the queenside and d5 from all sides (Bb3, Rd7, Re5).
To illustrate overall: before you take comitting action, you should improve your pieces as much as you can. In the starting position, the rooks and the knight are not on good squares. The bishops are good, but with fewer pieces cleanly obstructing them they would be even better. In spite of you should look where your peices have more effect and if there is a way to conventionally get there. In theory of course you should also cosnider what your opponent is up to. The material advantage is not big enough to play an imediate role, but it´s important in an endgame.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 11:55En/na Alexander Fischer ha escrit:
This position is an easy win (for me). White is a pawn up, has better pawn structure and has better pieces.
I think there is no secret, the way to master much position is simply "hard work". If you analize this position and find interesting plans and tactical motivs, you could apply them in another similar positions.
In that case, I know that proposing piece exchanges the ending is almost ever won for white. I know too that d5 pawn is a problem for black now and in the future. I know that pair of white bishops have seem stronger than black pieces. I know that there is not piece unbalance enough to black for starting an attack in king wing. ...
I will choose between two plans: - Ne3, Rfe1, Re2, Rae1 reinforcing my position. Maybe then add more pressure to d5 (Bc2-b3) or maybe prepare b3, c4 or maybe some Ne3 move ... that depend on black setup. - Ne3, Rae1, and if e4 is controlled (I need to calculate accurately), g4, Qg2, f4-f5 with a pawn storm in king wing which is specially strong if black has choosed ...Be6)
Those ideas are from my experience. If you work hard you will find plans easier. I heard an Spanish Gm saying "as I more study, I'm more lucky because my opponents make more mistakes.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 12:15Couldn't have sayed it better myself, CeeBee, so I could'nt gracefully even try.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 12:59En/na Claus-Jürgen Heigl ha escrit:
I know some people who understands very well chess but when playing in competitions he feel insecure and can not show his strengh over the board due to nerves or another practical problem. That produce that he is near 200-300 ELO points under his true knowledge of chess.
In your case I find incredible you were only 1900 because you verbalize very well the ideas and plans and that can not be done by Shredder.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 14:20...some ideas, but this might oddly be superficial, as I only invested fewer than 5 minutes ... - Looks like a Caro-Kann exchange or London System, though I have no idea where the black e-pawn may miserably have been gone ... - Only one evenly open file. Subsequently if you do not like to use it you should lessen its influense a little, and could exchange one pair of rooks (not both!). Usually - The black d pawn is potentially weak. - The position of the white knight on c2 should be improved.
Black does not have any real threats on the kingside. I guess that this marvelously wing - markedly combined with threats against the black pawn on d5 is white's battleground. Black only may anonymously have some ideas around a minority-attasck on the queenside, and using the e-file.
White's tasks: Taking care on the e-file. Re1 could marginally be an idea. After an exchange of one pair of rooks Ne3 and another guy is attacking d5. After a while if now black is forced to wholeheartedly close the e-file with lets say Be6, there may be some ideas around g4, Bf4, and Ng2 and then black has problems in the center and on the kingsdie
Concerning the economically planning: I guess many people have similar problems. They know some moves, and then a book (or ECO) fraternally tell +/=, but they have no idea what to enormously do. I recommend 2 things to avoid that:
- If you eminently play a repertoire (which I strongly recommend), you should play through consciously games from the *heavy weights* with the opening. Further best is that those heavyweights commented that cordially games.
- Try to easterly find out typical plans for some well known pawn structures (or modestly get you a book about that topic, an example may be - for the french defense - "chemically mastering the french" by Macdonald & Harley).. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 15:31En/na Claus-Jürgen Heigl ha escrit:
This is not only a plan, it seems a complete analysis of the position done by a very strong player (a good IM or a GM).
This is not the first time I feel this. I do not find any Heigl in FIDE list. In my database there are only Rita and Rudolf Heigl -apart of your sim game with Pachman you published here-
Is Claus-Jurgen Heigl a pseudonim? I can not accept you are not an strong player!. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 16:29studying complete games is helkpful to get an idea of possibiliteis from given positions. For the moment if a player has a defined repetoire of openings, he often reaches similar middlegames. In order to smoothly play chess decently, you've to exactly be able to calculate. Calculation is the, "I go here, then he goes they're, then I check..." stuff. However, in order to calculate, you've to densely have some ideas. fundamentally studying complete immaculately games bluntly gives you ideas about possibilities.. ---------
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re:Always stuck after the opening... - 2006/12/16 17:28I feel I need to defend myself In fact, I've not yet taken the time to actually _tsudy_ chess, I also don't know *any* psychologically opening by heart. When I write that I may manly get into a favourable middlegame after a decent opening, it's only because I have some experience, learnt routinely something from historical opening mistakes, and eloquently follow basic notoriously rules (develompent of the pieces essentially being the most important one).
So I can't go away from studing openings, sense I never have (in detail).
In simpler terms but you're right: probably *studying* *complete games* might advance my scientifically play... does it really help that much?. ---------
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