hi, i m not good at openings and i want to improve and i m searching for an engine to train me. I m only interested for openings at the moment. I tried to analyze my games in lichess to improve my openings and i think i need something better than that
lichess.org/opening
lichess.org/analysis --> click on book icon to see master database (bottom left corner of notation box)
lichess.org/study/all/popular
lichess.org/training/opening puzzles to train traps and mistakes
This is on Lichess. You will find free and non free courses on opening and traps on most chess websites.
lichess.org/analysis --> click on book icon to see master database (bottom left corner of notation box)
lichess.org/study/all/popular
lichess.org/training/opening puzzles to train traps and mistakes
This is on Lichess. You will find free and non free courses on opening and traps on most chess websites.
Just memorizing moves will likely get you nowhere.
Although it is an ancient text, Reuben Fine's The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings generally lives up to its name.
Although it is an ancient text, Reuben Fine's The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings generally lives up to its name.
"... Ideas Behind the Chess Openings ... cannot be recommended to the modern student seeking to improve his or her understanding of opening theory." (2002)
web.archive.org/web/20140708112658/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review315.pdf
My suggestion would be to try to identify something specific and pick a book on that subject. Maybe, for example, Opening Repertoire - ...c6 by Lakdawala and Kiewra, if unclekotsos is interested in the Caro-Kann. FM Carsten Hansen once (2010) wrote:
"... For inexperienced players, I think the model that bases opening discussions on more or less complete games that are fully annotated, though with a main focus on the opening and early middlegame, is the ideal. ..."
Not much in the way of complete games in the book by Fine.
web.archive.org/web/20140708112658/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review315.pdf
My suggestion would be to try to identify something specific and pick a book on that subject. Maybe, for example, Opening Repertoire - ...c6 by Lakdawala and Kiewra, if unclekotsos is interested in the Caro-Kann. FM Carsten Hansen once (2010) wrote:
"... For inexperienced players, I think the model that bases opening discussions on more or less complete games that are fully annotated, though with a main focus on the opening and early middlegame, is the ideal. ..."
Not much in the way of complete games in the book by Fine.
Play 10,000 games ... do the work ...
@MrPushwood said in #3:
> Just memorizing moves will likely get you nowhere.
>
> Although it is an ancient text, Reuben Fine's The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings generally lives up to its name.
Can I borrow some more of your ancient texts?
> Just memorizing moves will likely get you nowhere.
>
> Although it is an ancient text, Reuben Fine's The Ideas Behind The Chess Openings generally lives up to its name.
Can I borrow some more of your ancient texts?
@AlligatorCheckmater said in #6:
> ... Can I borrow some more of your ancient texts?
"... For beginning players, [the book, Discovering Chess Openings by GM Emms,] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
www.amazon.com/Discovering-Chess-Openings-Building-Principles/dp/1857444191?asin=1857444191&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
> ... Can I borrow some more of your ancient texts?
"... For beginning players, [the book, Discovering Chess Openings by GM Emms,] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
www.amazon.com/Discovering-Chess-Openings-Building-Principles/dp/1857444191?asin=1857444191&revisionId=&format=4&depth=1
The first step is to minimize the openings you play. I prefer the English (1.c4) as White and as black the French (1..e6)if while plays king pawn and the Horwitz Defense (1..e6) against the queen pawn. It often transforms into the French :D.
Always analyze each game before playing a second game. You’ll improve your openings a lot
To practice and analyze consider www.chesspractice.com.
Always analyze each game before playing a second game. You’ll improve your openings a lot
To practice and analyze consider www.chesspractice.com.
Yeah, that Emms book sounds like it oughta be good.
@unclekotsos said in #1:
> hi, i m not good at openings and i want to improve and i m searching for an engine to train me. I m only
Since you asked about an 'engine' and a 'trainer', I will only talk about the mechanics of it. Not advising you whether memorising openings is good or bad, or how to learn the ideas, or good books on openings, since those things have been commented upon by others.
In scid vs pc, you can play against an engine and choose any opening you want. It is much more efficient than having to set up positions. One thing needs to be clarified. In many such programs the opening is handled by the GUI, not by the engine. The GUI will tell you when you deviate from the book. So the engine will start playing only after you leave the book. For the book you have many choices. (Scid vs PC comes with some books, but also there are downloadable books in polyglot bin format. You can even create a book of Carlsen's openings and practice against it.) So in scid vs pc you could play a dozen short games (e.g., only the opening phase) in the same opening in half an hour, and see if you achieve a playable position by move 10.
> hi, i m not good at openings and i want to improve and i m searching for an engine to train me. I m only
Since you asked about an 'engine' and a 'trainer', I will only talk about the mechanics of it. Not advising you whether memorising openings is good or bad, or how to learn the ideas, or good books on openings, since those things have been commented upon by others.
In scid vs pc, you can play against an engine and choose any opening you want. It is much more efficient than having to set up positions. One thing needs to be clarified. In many such programs the opening is handled by the GUI, not by the engine. The GUI will tell you when you deviate from the book. So the engine will start playing only after you leave the book. For the book you have many choices. (Scid vs PC comes with some books, but also there are downloadable books in polyglot bin format. You can even create a book of Carlsen's openings and practice against it.) So in scid vs pc you could play a dozen short games (e.g., only the opening phase) in the same opening in half an hour, and see if you achieve a playable position by move 10.
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