How to Memorize 25 MOVES of a Chess Opening

Well demonstrated in the movie. Like any content adults can keep chess lines better if it makes sense.

But I don't want to memorize 25 moves of a chess opening... I just want to play chess :)

@Nordlandia I know what you mean about Fischerandom, but unfortunately it's not even remotely popular like the regular chess. It's hard to find a club or OTB tournaments where Chess960 is seriously played. I hope this will change in the future

Very nice video. So how can we get the additional videos?

It's an error to talk of visual memory in the 2nd video. It's the processing about the stories what's the effect is about.

@LukaCro Unfortunately that is true 😥

« Chess players are a strange bunch. Complaining nobody understands us, while at the same time we are very disapproving of any different way of having fun with the game. »

@Nordlandia Fischer was completely right when he says that public interest in chess will be more and more diminished. Who wants to watch the worldchampion game where both players play first 25-30 moves from theory and then they either agree to a draw (>90% of the time) or someone wins in the next 2-3 moves? No one below 2500+ can't understand what's going on there...

You're completely right about that. But chess players are so used to the classical starting position.

And people don't like change.

The other thing I noticed that has boost my rating is, that once you accept there are no absolute best moves in every position you became more flexible in your though process and allow yourself to grow. If you always stick with a classical approach to the game as the best solution you will miss other ideas. For example, if you think that hypermodern openings don't deserve any of your time, since you think they are not correct at all, you'll be missing out on so many different tactical and strategical ideas in your chess game. I think one of the reasons young players improve faster than adults is because they are much more open minded. They don't have that judgemental thought process adults have. If you play 1.e4 and someone plays 1...b6 you might think this is complete rubbish and it shouldn't survive another 10 moves you are wrong. It breaks so much opening principles it is ridiculous. It doesn't control the center, it doesn't help the King at all and it doesn't develop the piece. However, once you appreciate chess isn't black and white (which is actually funny), you will open yourself to so much more ideas and that is how you improve in chess. GMs aren't wrong whey they say you should play all kinds of positions to get better. Allow yourself to think outside of the box.

"Are you ready to stop feeling clueless on move 15..."

Move 15? I'd be happy to reach that kind of confidence on move 8 (: .

As for Fisherandom, well maybe it's good idea for Fischer and very top level grand masters, but I doubt it would increase popularity of chess among ordinary players.