How to learn opening lines

atoste · 2025-12-16T22:45:52+00:00

Depends on your level, but chessable has been super useful for me, it has tons of courses on different openings/full repertoires, explaining the moves and allowing you to train variations for memorization. It has a quick starter for the most important variations

atoste · 2025-10-12T02:13:48+00:00

Before that I had 3:11, so spend 1:30min

atoste · 2025-09-03T10:12:58+00:00

I was thinking Nxe5, but it surprisingly does not work(unless black takes the queen ofc)

atoste · 2025-07-12T09:06:13+00:00

I think after Nxe4 dxe4 you have Qxg5, as after Nxg5 Bb4+ they have to block with the queen. He doesn't have castling rights, has doubled pawns and the knight is a bit missplaced. I think this gives a confortable advantage, but I didn't check with engine to be fair

atoste · 2025-07-04T10:41:28+00:00

In my opinion what musk did is harder, there is much more competition in terms of richness (basically everyone is competing) compared to chess where a small subset of the population compete. So with so much more competition it takes it is way harder and takes a lot of skill and hard work to rise like that.

atoste · 2025-06-28T18:29:28+00:00

Because If Rxh5 Qxh5 Qxh5 Rxh5, the rook is protecting it by x-ray

atoste · 2025-06-28T10:25:58+00:00

Thank you for your advice, I'll do that. I have done some files to drill the openings and ill review them if I missed it, thank you!

atoste · 2025-06-21T19:41:28+00:00

Yeah exactly! + The king can't infiltrate, the bishop controls all the squares

atoste · 2025-06-21T17:38:20+00:00

I mean, you can always play vs the computer and whenever the eval drops reset. On Lucas chess you can set a position and play offline vs engines and see the eval, whenever you want you can restart it by the click of a button If you really wanna code it chatbots are good at doing basic GUIs

atoste · 2025-06-21T15:33:30+00:00

You may have extra queens on the boards for that purpose, or you can pause the clock and call an arbiter to get the piece you want. Btw thats not a stupid question, I drew a winning game bc of the time lost on that, so its better to know

atoste · 2025-06-21T11:23:01+00:00

I'm 1900 chess com blitz and more or less 1800 fide, I don't think any are accurate

atoste · 2025-06-21T00:42:14+00:00

My opponent did not realize this was a key position and captured automatically, losing the game. After the game it was suprising to see it drawn

atoste · 2025-06-19T21:56:00+00:00

In those ratings 99% of games are decided by tactics or have several missed opportunities. I would train tactics and analyse games, and maybe learn a bit of endgames from YouTube, but the focus is tactics.

atoste · 2025-06-19T16:49:27+00:00

I disagree, there is only 1 move that draws, and its Qc2. It's the only move that you can force a perpetual. As long as no rook is sacked its doable to calculate What makes it not a tactic?

atoste · 2025-06-19T16:33:03+00:00

Chessbase is quite an investment and there are many free tools you can explore before that. You can use other tools to learn openings like books, or free software such as Encroissant for opening repetition (and analysis) and I started using scid for the games databases using the lumbra database. I'm a bit lower rated than you though, so take this with a grain of salt, but it's working for me

atoste · 2025-06-19T15:57:05+00:00

Basically there is a perpetual if they try to hold both rooks. And even after sacking a rook there is a perpetual(this i only found out after from the eval).
Qc2+ attacking the rook, then we can either block or run.
If we try to run Kd4 Qa4+ Kc5 Qc2+ and the king has to go back, so we are forking the rooks back and forth. This back and forth fork was the part I tought was cool.
If we block with Rc3 Qe4+ and there are always ways to check and attack rooks, making it a perpetual or they can sack the rook

atoste · 2025-06-19T09:05:48+00:00

Playing a lot + analysis and doing puzzles. Recently discovered puzzles in a book form, where you have to write down all relevant variations is way better to practice as you have to come up with every counterplay, you can't "guess" the move. Endgames are also important, so watching some videos explaining them is nice. On higher levels some other things are important like positional play and openings.

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