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Chessbook. It helps you to memorize openings by drilling them and using an SRS (Hope this answers your question)

Just keep playing practice games and create studies from positions and get tons of repetition.
After 2 years and 500games and 3000 practice games and studies you will be able to remember them in your sleep.

Don't worry about memorizing a dozen sidelines first 6 months. Just play and practice a select few openings. Not 20 of them. Improve positioning and calculation. Patience.

Just keep playing practice games and create studies from positions and get tons of repetition. After 2 years and 500games and 3000 practice games and studies you will be able to remember them in your sleep. Don't worry about memorizing a dozen sidelines first 6 months. Just play and practice a select few openings. Not 20 of them. Improve positioning and calculation. Patience.

PeterSkeets

#13

im still waiting for @mrpushwood to come into this thread one day and say "My Brain!"

Munich

#14

@PeterSkeets said in #13:

im still waiting for @mrpushwood to come into this thread one day and say "My Brain!"

He came out in disguise, but under a different name (= Munich)

@PeterSkeets said in #13: > im still waiting for @mrpushwood to come into this thread one day and say "My Brain!" He came out in disguise, but under a different name (= Munich)

PeterSkeets

#15

it's not the same though. it doesn't feel as authentic

OpMisantrop

#16

I use lichess analysis board, lichess game database and engine. And I use these things for analyze openings, not for memorization. I think it's important to understand ideas of each move, general ideas for certain line, transpositions, why engine evaluation changes, human's evaluation, plans, strategies, problems I pose to my opponent with this move, classifications of different positions and many other things. Also comparative analysis is very useful in learning openings, cause many positions are similar to each other.
Here I can give an analogy with the study of math. If you just cram math, nothing good will come of it. You will hate it. Instead, you need to understand the math. Why this or that rule works. You need to constantly ask yourself "why" when studying math and try to prove every rule or theorem yourself, even if it was already proven 100+ years ago.

I use lichess analysis board, lichess game database and engine. And I use these things for analyze openings, not for memorization. I think it's important to understand ideas of each move, general ideas for certain line, transpositions, why engine evaluation changes, human's evaluation, plans, strategies, problems I pose to my opponent with this move, classifications of different positions and many other things. Also comparative analysis is very useful in learning openings, cause many positions are similar to each other. Here I can give an analogy with the study of math. If you just cram math, nothing good will come of it. You will hate it. Instead, you need to understand the math. Why this or that rule works. You need to constantly ask yourself "why" when studying math and try to prove every rule or theorem yourself, even if it was already proven 100+ years ago.

Art_124

#17

I usually analyze, and if I need advice, I turn to neuro You.com.

Art_124

#18

Вот на него ещё ссылка:https://you.com/?chatMode=default

Duusker

#19

I use Chess Openings Wizard (COW) by bookup.com. Sometimes I drill my openings with this software. And I analyze most of my games and part of the analysis is the question: Did I play according to my own repertoire? (If not: look at the repertoire again). When my opponent played a move that is not in my repertoire in COW I use the built-in Stockfish to find the best move.

Doing this I improve my opening knowledge game by game.

I use Chess Openings Wizard (COW) by bookup.com. Sometimes I drill my openings with this software. And I analyze most of my games and part of the analysis is the question: Did I play according to my own repertoire? (If not: look at the repertoire again). When my opponent played a move that is not in my repertoire in COW I use the built-in Stockfish to find the best move. Doing this I improve my opening knowledge game by game.

drSabrotna

#20

You can make interactive studies with popular variations in your openings.
If you test yourself often while practicing the positions they will become more familiar to you.

Just make sure you work more on calculation skills and positional understanding and endgames. Be patient with memorizing bc your opponents could play a thousand different variations. Rely more on positional awareness in your openings.

You can make interactive studies with popular variations in your openings. If you test yourself often while practicing the positions they will become more familiar to you. Just make sure you work more on calculation skills and positional understanding and endgames. Be patient with memorizing bc your opponents could play a thousand different variations. Rely more on positional awareness in your openings.