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Did you learn an opening because a GM plays it?

#1
I knew that Kasparov played KID, then I watched an interview where he complimented Hikaru for playing King's Indian. This was a few years ago. So I learned Kings Indian Defense and I love playing it.

Here is my game, not a true KID but some of the structure.

#2
@morphyms1817 said in #1:
> I knew that Kasparov played KID, then I watched an interview where he complimented Hikaru for playing King's Indian. This was a few years. So I learned Kings Indian Defense and I love playing it.
An IM, levy played the caro and recommended it a lot, so I play it
#3
@heckerboy said in #2:
> An IM, levy played the caro and recommended it a lot, so I play it

I studied Caro, I'm not great at it.
#4
@morphyms1817 said in #3:
> I studied Caro, I'm not great at it.
for me I got better when I started playing it, I was comfty with the structure, maybe play the dutch for D4 and scisilian for E4
#5
@heckerboy said in #4:
> for me I got better when I started playing it, I was comfty with the structure, maybe play the dutch for D4 and scisilian for E4

Dutch is awesome, look at my games.
#9
Generally I will learn an opening because I'm curious about it or I like its philosophy. The top players these days mainly are always playing the same openings so their repertoires are often pretty boring.

When I'm learning an opening though, I will generally look up games by GMs who are experts in it and have been developing its theory (so for the KID, there are great games by Kasparov, Joe Galagher, and Gawain Jones; and for the Classical Dutch the main experts would be GingerGM and the Pert brothers).
#10
"Did you learn an opening because a GM plays it?"

If I were an IM then yes I would learn it, but for now I am not doing that hahaha

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