11 Feb '07 10:34>
Originally posted by Dragon FireRight you are - for improving opening play player must use databases and books. Its not only remembering moves but also understanding main ideas and plans of current opening line or system.
I am on this site for one reason and one reason alone. To improve my opening play. I do that by [b]using books whenever I can. I will shortly be using a database also but I find books better as they tend to explain the ideas behind the opening in a way a database cannot. As time goes by my knowledge improves and I can play ever deeper into an opening ...[text shortened]... my OTB play although I would expect my OTB rating to follow it up 6 months or so down the line.[/b]