Hiya everybody!
We learn about the basics of chess openings; The three golden rules if you will. But if one wants to study more, then one has to resort to studying specific openings - so it seems. And that's exactly I don't want to do. I believe in what some masters say, that they postponed learning openings until they were like 2000 FIDE.
But how to do that? Do books or courses exist which go deeper into the actual art (technique) of doing the first 10 to 14 moves?
What do I do or what do I purchase?
I'm afraid that unless you want to follow "the three golden rules", etc. you will have to study some openings(even if it's something like the London System). Otherwise you will be playing a dubious opening. Btw, I think the masters are exaggerating when they say "I postponed openings until 2000 FIDE". You will be fine without them up until maybe 1600 FIDE, 1800 maybe if you are very good with strategy, tactics and endgame. But in the end, you will probably have to learn them, even if it's just the general ideas. Otherwise you will likely get outplayed.
I think you should watch some Master's Games in Lichess TV and dry to develop the opening concepts which they play. They may not be playing the same openings again and again but you should try to choose which moves should lead to a better structure of your game.
As for mine, I stick mostly to one opening, I havent learned it from youtube or chess books or coaches, I have derived it.
I suggest an old opening book Basic Chess Openings by GM Kallai. When finished, More Basic Openings by same author.
some silicon brain implants? I sympathize with your wants. Maybe stop worrying about the rating, and learn by mistakes. do the opposite of what your told once in a while, to test the limits by yourself. lose a lot of games, but enjoy them anyway, and don't do chess bulimia. I am wrong most of the time. There is some concept called opening idea, maybe it is plural. the relationship with the opening data (a.k.a. theory, but maybe it is data in theory), is not the priority as far as I have gathered, but you will find if you dig, sparsely mentioned, there may be rare gems though. I have seen some of those explained, they do exist (the ideas), sadly, they are buried and dispersed in other types of memory systems about the world of openings.
Somebody ought to digitize the opening theory literature, and create new table of contents inverting the names with ideas. Maybe an excell spreadsheet or a relational database (kidding, some prior approach may have to be developed and futile attempts tried before that could work). but i only have wants and ignorance.
Just to make sure - as assumptions are made - I know some opening theory but I rather spend time with other subjects. But it looks like there's an agreement on the fact that one cannot escape learning specific openings at an relative early stage (1500 FIDE and up). So be it, I'll continue doing that. Thank you all for your response.
For starters you learn opening as you play. In particular if you lose from opening check what went wrong and assumin you have better memory than me avoid same mistake in future. In case I feel like opening was not very good for me i go trough the opening stages of the game with lichess opening database. There you can see if master level players have done in such situations.
Also you can pick a book like "FCO: Fundamental Chess Openings: Van der Sterren" where openings are introduced and explained on basic ideas. Perhaps use this kinda book to pick what first moves to play in stage BUT learning opening to move 20 is pointless. Given your strength you opponents do not know too much openin theory and you will out of book by 10 anyway. Well I know Marshall Counter attack to move 16 and thre are opponents who played the opening to that far. Book I used as example if probably very similar to book mentioned previously. But learning from database based on your own games proably produces better results
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