People are different, and they learn differently.
And some people are very confident in themselves and require a minimum understanding of a specific opening variation or position. The number of variations you learn and the depth of your opening preparation will vary based upon your chess rating.įor example, it’s fine if a 1500 level player memorizes and understands the ideas of a particular opening until move 10, a Grandmaster goes deeper until move 25 and a Super-Grandmaster in the top 10 of the world analyzes all the way to move 40.īut if your rating is 1500 and you try to understand or remember opening variations until move 30, it’s going to be virtually impossible and, on a practical level, completely pointless.Īlso, some people need to know all the ideas of a particular variation before playing it. And if your rating is 1500, but you have a PGN file created by a Grandmaster, then you won’t be able to understand or remember any of the variations. If your rating is 2500 and you have a PGN file created by your friend who’s rated 1500, then it will be worthless to you. And likewise, he can’t wear yours either. When the size of your t-shirt is XL, you can’t wear the t-shirt of your friend whose size is S. You wouldn’t wear your friend’s small t-shirt, would you? In this article, we’ll speak about the reasons why you shouldn’t use other people’s PGN files and the best way to create your own. In the best-case scenario, they try to study the PGN and memorize the lines, but ultimately this proves unsuccessful most of the time.Īs we’ve already discussed in our article about memorizing variations, you don’t actually need to memorize variations. And, if a friend of theirs has already watched a course and created their PGN file, they simply ask them to send it their way so that they “know” the opening too.
So many chess players genuinely believe that if they have the PGN of a particular opening, they already know it. On the one hand, it’s quite funny, but on the other, it’s quite sad.
“Oooh, wow!! How did you learn all of that?” “Well, I’m glad you asked.I can play the Queen’s Gambit, the Nimzo Indian, the Grunfeld, the King’s Indian, and of course, the Semi-Slav.”
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