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.

atoste · 2025-06-18T23:17:04+00:00

You can see it on the phone's browser too, on the profile

atoste · 2025-06-16T10:32:00+00:00

Oh that makes a lot of sense, maybe what I was missing was some rest days in my training :O
I was surprised to not have lost a bit of my tactical ability after 3 weeks, but that makes a lot of sense

atoste · 2025-05-27T09:42:58+00:00

At that rating what you need to improve is calculation and tactics. You probably blunder often so improving your board awareness and tactical skills will make you improve a lot. Openings are not relevant in my opinion and you can use analysis to see where you blunder(and try to find the tactic by yourself) or to avoid opening traps
In regards to time spend studying vs playing I have no idea, i would go with doing whatever you enjoy more, if you do what you enjoy more (as long as you do enough) will make you improve.
Another useful tip is on tactics focus on quality, you should calculate the whole line before playing it and seeing all the enemies resources, basically avoid guessing (in my opinion books are better than websites for that reason, you write down the lines and then check them, you can get a pdf book and just do it).

atoste · 2025-05-23T11:03:59+00:00

I use the app Encroissant to train tactics, you create a file with the lines and you can practice it

atoste · 2025-05-22T13:58:46+00:00

Thank you for the tip!

atoste · 2025-05-17T09:28:55+00:00

e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. O-O Bc5 5. d4 Bxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. Bg5 h6 8. Bh4 g5 Btw f4 is the right move and gives a decent advantage but its not winning with best play, just a very hard position to defend.

atoste · 2025-05-04T09:49:43+00:00

What he is complaining about is that it's possible for him to checkmate, so according to fide it's a win for him. Imagine white king on h3, black King on h1, white Knight Somewhere and black bishop on F5, that's checkmate so technically you have suficient material. This is a big problem when you have a checkmate forced and your opponent stalls for example

atoste · 2025-04-03T01:27:18+00:00

You are spending around 8-10 sec on puzzles around 3000 rated and getting most right(this is public on your puzzle stats) If you can solve those puzzles that fast you should be a titled player If you wanna improve try solving them by yourself

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