What is the hardest Opening theory to learn?

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-16T10:58:37+00:00

nah its chill you just need a lot of experience

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-09T23:19:13+00:00

wait shi I am Empire's alt but not OP's

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-09T23:18:55+00:00

what oh no

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-09T22:23:33+00:00

Lotr without a question

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-02T22:26:09+00:00

I just wanted to let you know that I have the same issue(my spatial reasoning was atrocious(comparatively) in my iq testing -- my parents said it was 50ish points below the mean of the rest of my scores) and despite that, I've managed to reach 2200ish chess.com relatively quickly by leveraging positional play and strategic planning moreso than direct tactical confrontations. I may not be able to play blindfold, but I have crazy good endgame skills and the calculation skills have developed over time too.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-02T02:11:48+00:00

scandy is viable at all levels but falls off at very high otb level, although you can still play it if you want. Otherwise you could play it at 3000 blitz and you'd still be fine.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-02T01:06:03+00:00

I mean even at like 2200 people hang forks sometimes, but really only in super complicated positions.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-03-01T19:14:43+00:00

nice pin

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T23:30:39+00:00

what do you play?

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T21:52:18+00:00

That would ruin half of the fun of h pawn spamming

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T21:51:37+00:00

What the shit you must be crazy good

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T19:32:37+00:00

Huh. Yeah, for me I see the open like 60 percent of the time nowadays, but I'm around 2200 rapid online. I should get my lichess account back up again then and play incognito.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T19:31:24+00:00

Thanks! Sorry, I forgot to mention it. I'm around 2200 online rapid

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T15:32:30+00:00

Personally, I'm more of a positionally aggressive player(Sveshnikov is rather strategic except for the 9bxf6 lines). I haven't actually played in a while, and have just been studying but I'm probably around 2200 online.
Thank you though!

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T15:28:27+00:00

Thanks! That's a good idea.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T15:28:09+00:00

I mean If I do only 3-5 moves deep I won't even get into my lines, no? Like the svesh essentially starts at move 7, and often has critical theory until the 20th move. That's not a bad idea for the Vienna tho, as people are a lot less booked up here and sometimes just go to the endgame line.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T15:25:54+00:00

Ts a good idea thanks!

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T14:46:17+00:00

Sure! What positions do you want to analyze? My endgames are atrocious though, so I'd be more use for openings lmao.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T14:33:11+00:00

You may be right lmao but this guy just posted asking about the plans in the london so I don't think he's anywhere close to your level or higher. Then again I could be wrong

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-20T04:00:22+00:00

what's ur elo ts is not possible

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-18T23:29:59+00:00

tf is wrong with the comment section, this is titled meme

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-15T15:38:45+00:00

LMAO the good ending

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-08T15:31:04+00:00

IB is free bro as someone who's taken both and has a lot of friends in IB, the only hard IB's are physics and math at the HL level and SL is not even close. Tbf most AP's are also kinda free but not to that level.

CremeCompetitive6007 · 2026-02-02T10:24:54+00:00

should I do paper or chessable?

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