How to Memorize 25 MOVES of a Chess Opening

Many chess players are intimidated by long opening variations. They resign themselves to playing the Colle System their whole life, or constantly end up in middlegames where they "don't know what to do" (because they've never learned their opening's ideas deep into the middlegame!)

Do you think it's impossible to routinely play 25 moves from memory? Give me a chance to prove you wrong, and watch the training below. (hint: Memorization isn't even the most important part!)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRkTtVE3GYE

This isn't a video you can sit back and watch passively - there will be 3 exercises throughout, and I expect you to do them. Don't waste your time watching it if you intend to be lazy! But for those who do the work...you'll find that opening memorization isn't as scary or unattainable as you thought it was.

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Are you ready to stop feeling clueless on move 15, and start building a professional-level Opening Repertoire that would make many Masters envious? It's completely attainable, but memorization is only one small step.

I've created a video training containing material that I've previously only shared with some of my private students...but let me know in the comments if you want it. It's not publicly available, but if you're serious about developing a Master-level repertoire, I'm happy to share it.

I dont know if you should be happy or sad to play 25 theory moves from head... anyways good video @BlakeyBChess

People have a hard time memorizing a 25 move opening? Yeah it would require some work to memorize but it doesn't seem that hard in my opinion. Thank you for the video NM Blakey!

@pendru I'm not sure why it would make someone sad?

@BlakeyBChess playing over and over the same variation

It's a good video. But it's not a video on how to memorise 25 moves, just a video on your lines you have played.

OK, how do I memorize 300 lines of Alekhine theory??

@pendru That would only be true if you always played the same opponent.

@MetallicIntuition I don't think that exists :)

Whenever I see anything telling me how to memorize a chess opening line, I flash back to my second ever OTB tournament:
A young clousems feels particularly confident, having recently memorized the Marshall variation of the Ruy Lopez. He plays e4. His opponent responds with 1...a6. clousems dies a little inside.