How do you train openings?

I'd like to try spaced repetition, I was thinking 7 openings, ten minutes a day one for each day of the week, going thru some variations in a study for 4 weeks running cause whenever I look at a new line just once I tend to forget 90% almost immediately.

It's a matter of motivation & of getting in the habit & getting excited to engage with this training (in chess it's hard cause you might have a bad loss in an opening & be pissed & want to master it but then won't see it again for 500 games).

I don't want to waste money on Chessable, if anyone knows of a similar but free training tool I'd appreciate it.

Thanks for your time.

Cheers.

Lots of people use Chessable for free, or for very little money.

Alternatively, maybe study annotated master games... Chessgames dot com perhaps? I don't know of any sites that work like Chessable but cost 0.

Maybe, you can find something useful at https://lichess.org/forum/general-chess-discussion/how-should-i-study-chess-openings.

This is not a beginner obviously...

You can upload a file with up to 20000 positions to chesstempo and train it for free. That is all I know.

I use a combo of chessbook.com and Anki. Anki is for positions I often get wrong, as well as non-sequence type positions (plans and ideas). Chessbook is to mindlessly drill sequences.

@PureProgressionFTW said in #1:

ten minutes a day one for each day of the week
whenever I look at a new line just once I tend to forget 90% almost immediately.

Maybe its because you spend 10 minutes a day on it.

You should learn 1-2 openings at a time. 1 with white, 1 with black. Each at least 1 hour a day, for a week or 2, preferably like a month, and both need about 3-4 times the study time with practice.

In reality, you start to get good at anything when you pour like 1000 hours on it, but you are not gonna pour 1000 hours in an opening. But around 30 hours a month of studying, and about 100 or so in practice should be solid enough.

I mean, it sounds kinda pathetic if you pour 10 minutes a day. Looks like you want to get good without trying to get good.

I mean, its great that you want to put some effort, but focus it.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee.

At the end of the day playing is the real meat. Before and after some concrete research is useful, but yeah. Playing, tons of.

definitely playing games. choose a couple and just play (blitz) to see that the pitfalls and traps are. then you collect data, then go to a book, then play through some games.
one kick 10000 times.

@Alientcp said in #6:

Maybe its because you spend 10 minutes a day on it.

You should learn 1-2 openings at a time. 1 with white, 1 with black. Each at least 1 hour a day, for a week or 2, preferably like a month, and both need about 3-4 times the study time with practice.

In reality, you start to get good at anything when you pour like 1000 hours on it, but you are not gonna pour 1000 hours in an opening. But around 30 hours a month of studying, and about 100 or so in practice should be solid enough.

I mean, it sounds kinda pathetic if you pour 10 minutes a day. Looks like you want to get good without trying to get good.

I mean, its great that you want to put some effort, but focus it.

"I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times."
Bruce Lee.

No offense but your rating pretty low to be lecturing.

10 min a day everyday for a year is better than an hour or two a day for a week & then quit. I got kids & responsibilities, plus an hour a day studying same opening for a month I think would make me hate chess.

I was asking more about HOW like what tools people use. Also there's no such thing as 1 opening as white & 1 opening as black, even if you're some boring system player there are thousands of different ways people can play against you.

@Sarg0n said in #7:

At the end of the day playing is the real meat. Before and after some concrete research is useful, but yeah. Playing, tons of.

Do you really believe that? On every chess website I've ever seen there's always a few guys rated 1400 who've played 100,000+ games. That might work if you're young & hungry but for average distracted adult their rating graph stays flat no matter how much they play.