How to study openings efficiently.

Hallo @jupp53 ich denke nicht, dass das komplett falsch ist. Das beste Endspiel Wissen ist für die Tonne wenn du erst gar nicht dahin kommst! Wenn du eine Eröffnung nicht verstehst (Muster und Pläne) und nach einem unerwarteten Zug deines Gegners nicht weißt was zu tun ist, wirst du verlieren (taktische Patzer lasse ich erst mal außen vor) . Und Matt Muster zu kennen hat nichts per se mit dem Endspiel zu tun. Das nächste was man lernen sollte, sind elementare Taktikmuster und wie man sie erkennt, wie Abzug, Hinlenkung, Fesselung etc.. Hier kommen die eigenen und gegnerischen Patzer in das Spiel. Danach meinetwegen das Endspiel.

Wer in 100 Partien nicht seine normale Anzahl Endspiele bekommt, der spielt entweder gegen zu starke oder zu schwache Gegner oder verliert unnötig viel.

Train whatever you like. But Tarrasch and Capablanca are still right about learning the game.

Also Kasparov:
"A player should study openings only after he becomes a grandmaster."

Today all club players have opening repertoires like GMs in the 70s. If you don’t acclimatize you will never reach an endgame.

A bit harsh, but times have changed.

In the 70s grandmasters tried to out-prepare their peers: marshall gambit, open ruy lopez, sharp variations in the najdorf sicilian defense, king's indian defense, grünfeld indian defence…
The contemporary top grandmasters do not even try to do that: anti marshall, giuoco pianissimo italian, slav defense.
Carlsen even plays weird stuff like 1 a3 and 1 d4 b6 and 1 e4 Nf6 2 e5 Ng8 and 1 e4 Nc6 to avoid all theoretical discussion and force the opponent to play chess right away.
It is absolutely pointless for a beginner to study openings. It will take much time and effort and offer no reward at all.
The best you can get out of any opening is an advantage of a pawn. Of you cannot convert a pawn advantage to a win, then all the advantage is meaningless.

@tpr "It will take much time and effort and offer no reward at all. The best you can get out of any opening is an advantage of a pawn."

Nobody studies openings in hope of being up a pawn after 15 moves... What you want out of the opening is a position that you're comfortable with, a position that you understand.

And you can learn a lot of strategic themes by studying openings and the middlegames that arise from them... So, there definitely is a reward.

So Capablanca was famous for not studying opening theory and saying that end game was the most important. Maybe he repented later in life, but this is also his quote

The game might be divided into three parts, the opening, the middle-game and the end-game. There is one thing you must strive for, to be equally efficient in the three parts.

I saw this on one of Antonio's videos, and searching for it, I found it in AZ Quotes, a site that I am not familiar with.

www.azquotes.com/author/21370-Jose_Raul_Capablanca

This is how we study openings:

1- watch a video or read a book on a specific line or opening like The Najdorf!
2- get online full of confidence
3- opponent plays 1 g4
4- Scream out an inappropriate language expression, several more 4 letter words, go on to miserably lose the game or flag the opponent.
5- go on youtube and watch a video on how to beat the Grob
6- get online
7- opponent plays 1 b4
8- Repeat step #4 above
9- After watching another video on beating 1b4 get back online
9- opponent plays 1 g4 and we realize we forgot the first video
10 - repeat step #4 above

By playing and analysing thousands of Blitz game. Am not Good at short time controls. But I play thousands of blitz just to get a grip of openings. And do some experimental moves.

Of coz watching videos and reading books, lots of books go hand in hand with this.

You will only master opening by practicing on real games.