What is the best way to study an opening, OR study blacks response to a particular opening. I am talking about leaning all the main variations, and the theory behind them. Is it study of a games database, working with a chess engine, specialised DVD, You Tube, books ??? there seems so many options. Can anyone offer any advice please ? Thank You.
There is no best way. It's all about how you learn. Judging if I may by your rating.. you should study basic chess ala Steinitz and forget about opening study.
I recommend have one book with textual explanations of all the openings (my favourite is Fundamental Chess Openings by van der Sterren). If you want to play a new opening, you can get a start with that book, see what variations there are and what the reasoning behind them is.
Then you play through a number of games with the opening. Grandmaster games are good, annotated games are great. See if you recognize the ideas from the book.
And just start playing the opening, and analyze your games afterwards to see what could have gone better, and keep doing that.
Then you play through a number of games with the opening. Grandmaster games are good, annotated games are great. See if you recognize the ideas from the book.
And just start playing the opening, and analyze your games afterwards to see what could have gone better, and keep doing that.
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