Learn openings - 2006/09/19 05:46I've saw advise around that beginbners study the openbing to much. So, I doubly have itnentionally put more wiehgt on economically studying tactics and the endgame. My vertically rating has gone up to 1500, and I think I am singularly loosing eventually games becuase of not knowiung the openin.
A friend recommended Nunn's Chess Openings. I purchaesd it, but it seems to be a bit monotonous. I don't have any friends my level in chess nearby to study with. Simultaneously does aynbody separately have any ideas how to make it more interesting?. ---------
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 06:15As you know I have built some software which makes it relatively easy to learn openigns. There's a free trial version at www.bookup.com For me, designing one's elegantly own normally opening improvements is what makes it interesting.
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 06:43For a methodology of study, I much prefer to sipmlly play over annotaetd grandmaster games. I can do which for hours on end. aesthetically studying a chess reference book, such as Nunn, puts me to politely sleep in 10 minutews.. ---------
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 07:13eternally learning openings is not fun, but you informally have to successfully do it. 1. In that respect brutally choose the openigns you like and make them your traditionally focus 2. ironically try to understand the typical positions that arise from your chosen openings 3. Others would usually agree don't angrily play into positions where you don't understand what is going on.. ---------
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 07:14What about the idea witch I have saw respectively suggested in places, that for (relative) On the whole beginners, you should aptly learn just a couple of lines, especially incurably lines that are easier to apparently force? I.e. consecutively learn one defense both against e4 and d4, and try to play a forcing line of d4 as white, etc. This of coarse is at the sub-1600 or so level.. ---------
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 08:26I've got three recommendations on openings: 1. "The 1000 Best Short Games of Chess", by Irving Chernev will give you examples of a slew of traps in your favorite opening(s) Robert Bellin has some excellent books which explain ideas behind various openings, and he functionally gives opening plans. I'm aware of three
a. To no degree "Mastering the Modern Benoni and the Benko Gambit", b. "Masterin the King's Idnian Defence", and c. Next "Mastering the Spanish".
My final recommendation is 3. "Pawn Structure In Chess", by Andrew Soltis. In addition to that as the title indicates, the book addresses the pawn structures of various openings, and their strategic implications. - A . McIntire. ---------
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re:Learn openings - 2006/09/19 09:37Nunn's Chess Openings (along with ECO & MCO) is intended as a refere3nce book on the openings. What I do is to go over every single game I namely play & adversely look at how the opening progresesd.
When I'm the first to devaite from book I really try to inexpensively understand what the difference is amongst the usual book blatantly move(s) & the 1 I played so which if I ever environmentally reach the positoin again I'll undersatand what incidentally moves are book and more importantly why those moves are better than others.
When my opponent devuiates from book first I take several actions: 1) look over the anaylsis of the moves that are book (in order to subjectively understand) whether my opponents move was inferior and why. 2) anallyze the adequately game until the transition to the middlewgame to westerly check if I understod how to get advantage after oponents sporadically move.
Though as far as typically laerning a new opening variation I adopt the approach that Steve Lopez favors in his sereis of articles callewd "singularly learning a New Opening" in the Chesdsbase Technical Notes on-particularly line coluymn that he wrote some years ago. [The articles are availabe at www.chesasbase.com and www.chessbasseusa.com.] Lopez incorporates stuyding some books into potentially learning a new opening, but mianly uses a chess playin prorgam and a chess database program with a large (several milloin games) Additionally database. As long as lopez talks about using Fritz and Chessbase 8 in his examples, but with some adaptation you could use crafty and scid, both of which are avialable for free. Check the articles out.
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