Oct '24 • Lessons
How to learn a new opening?
One of the things that we are most keen on learning in chess is openings but how can one truly learn one?
1.Watching a tutorial video is probably the best way to start as it introduces you to the opening and most of its variations and sidelines. But just watching videos won't help.
2 Playing it on the board- The only way you'll truly master a thing is if you practice and this applies to everything not just chess
3 Learning from the best - This is probably the best way you can master a good opening. Analyze games played by the top players and compare positions they get to what you get when you play, try to understand the 'idea' behind each move instead of just memorizing them. Often times you might be able to use similar ideas in your own games
4 Analysis- In order to improve you need to know what went wrong, so its quite obvious that you'll have to analyze your games. Don't do them just for the sake of it but genuinely try to understand where you went wrong and what you could have done better.
Quite recently I've been learning the Dutch defence and just last week I came across an interesting game played between Mikhail Botvinnik and Vasily Smyslov. (Board 2)
And today I played a game which had the same idea as the Smyslov game (Board 1)
Sure it wasn't move for move or really that similar but my playstyle was heavily inspired from that match (I wanted to play Rf6 on move 17 but played Rf7 just ignore that)
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