I do NOT believe that Learning more than 3 Openings with the White Pieces or 3 Opening to respond with the Black Pieces is a good idea. It is better to become a master of one two or three openings than to get confused with more than 20 or 30 Openings, and specially NOT knowing how to convert those openings into a winning middlegame leading to a winning endgame.supersharp77 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:01 pmThese Five If Applied Correctly Are The Baseline...You won't need much else just use a GUI (Chessbase Fritz...Chess Assistant etc to keep up on developments......jshriver wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:54 am Looking for recommendations for a good book to read and learn various openings. There are probably 1000's on the market so curious what you all thought or liked.
With covid still out and about I've wanted to improve my game so when things hopefully get better I would like to start playing FIDE rated tournaments.
Thanks!
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1a. Batsford Chess Openings The ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Batsford-Chess-O ... 0713421142
1b. Modern Chess Openings....The Original ChessPlayers Bible https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Chess-Ope ... 261&sr=8-4
3. Chess Position Trainer v3.1.1 https://www.chesspositiontrainer.com/in ... n/download
4.CDB.exe (CDB Chess)...Plug in a tournament pgn file and it spits out all the openings played for the event...
https://www.chess2u.com/t8391-cdb-chess
5. Chess Informant (Paperbacks) High Level Opening Theory...(GM Human Games)
https://www.amazon.com/Sahovski-Informa ... oks&sr=1-8
ps You can learn quite alot fron RJ Fischers "My 60 Memorable Games"....A Must Read...![]()
Note: I know most of you have hear this phrase before, Jack of all trades, master of none " Jack of all trades, master of none " is a figure of speech used in reference to a person who has dabbled in many skills, rather than gaining expertise by focusing on one. So far I have played over 200 games in chess.com and with White over 105 games using the same opening, I have a good percentage, of win, but if I plays more than 50 different Opening with White my percentage would decrease tremendously with White and with Black. So in the last 3 Weeks I have gained more than 300 rating points, and at the same time I am becoming better and better just playing one opening with the White and no more than 3 opening with the Black pieces, one against 1. e4, another against 1. d4 and another against the 1. c4. My online trainer GM Igor told me to play at least 1000 times with the same opening on Chess.com
https://www.bing.com/search?q=Master+of ... 2f&pc=U531