@Laughnchill said in #1:
> Studying openings for white seems straight forward, pick an opening and learn the lines and theory but when it comes to black it seems like your openings all require white to play along so there's not an easy way to get repetitive practice in real games.
What Dave said is mostly true. IMO, the minor differences are that
W & B have different places where they can narrow the opening tree, and
W is a 1/2 move ahead so in a critical opening W has a larger margin of error than B.
This means for me that it is hard to face as white a defense I play as black because as soon as B chooses a different sub-variation than I play I dont even have a general idea about the position. And I can play stuff as white based on a general idea about the structure but there are lines I play as B that doing that would not be good. [imprecision as W means equal game and as black can mean death.] I study white lines broadly and black lines narrow and deep.
-Bill
