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http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg

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Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg
That's a nice collection on openings.

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Originally posted by kbaumen
That's a nice collection on openings.
Thanks.
Hasn't stopped the slide back to below 1600 though 😕

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some people focus too much on openings... Achieving superior piece activity and positional advantages should be the goals of any chess player, and this isn't always achieved in the opening.

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Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg
It just goes to show the futility of opening theory at our level of excellence!

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Originally posted by Squelchbelch
http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/8167/1000687ka1.jpg
haha...we now know your secrets 😛

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Originally posted by ChessJester
some people focus too much on openings... Achieving superior piece activity and positional advantages should be the goals of any chess player, and this isn't always achieved in the opening.
Not always, but a lot.

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I'd say learn the endgame instead!
getting to the endgame even 1 or 2 pawns down but being a master of it will help you beat your opponent who memorized some opening and got to here. They will be lost in the endgame.

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Originally posted by pijun
I'd say learn the endgame instead!
getting to the endgame even 1 or 2 pawns down but being a master of it will help you beat your opponent who memorized some opening and got to here. They will be lost in the endgame.
They are probably at least equally as important to study.

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i say study the wet bar... and the bar maid....
if theirs time for the endgame, maybe look at that too

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Originally posted by ChessJester
They are probably at least equally as important to study.
Openings should only take about 25% of your total study time..according to Lev Alburt anyways

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Tactics take up around 50% of my study time.
I'm playing here mainly to refine my openings for OTB purposes, so perhaps there is more emphasis with me on my repertoire than some other users.

Endgame study is boring, boring, boring & strategy isn't much more fun.
I have a couple of Jeremy Smugman's books & they lose their appeal after a short while.

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I still can't understand for the life of me how someone can enjoy studying openings and find endgames boring, but different strokes for different folks. 🙂

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Originally posted by OrangeKing
I still can't understand for the life of me how someone can enjoy studying openings and find endgames boring, but different strokes for different folks. 🙂
Endgame study seems rather dry compared to openings.
I think that this is because there is much more room for expression in the opening:- in endgames technique is everything & generally there is a right move or wrong move & little in-between.

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we seem to have the same caveman opening repertoire! By the way what do you play aginst d4 Nf6 Nf3? (anti-budapest)