This is why I sucked at openings for virtually my entire life, but that changed thanks to one great tool. Honestly, it’s hard going through 200 pages of analysis, even if most of it is prose. You leaf through it, look at the main conclusion, get a general idea and then hope things works out. Unfortunately, if you are anything like me, you don’t study most of the book. A quick search later and you find books that promise unique positions, easy-to-learn systems and quick wins if you memorize just a few lines. You start yawning, as you’ve played this position a thousand times and need something new. Maybe your chess games keep reaching the same sterile positions. Maybe you have fallen down this rabbit hole yourself. Arguably there are more books on openings than what is good for us, but it’s certainly a lot of fun. Whenever I visit the chess section at a bookstore, I see a token endgame book, a few general manuals, the current flavour of the month and then rows and rows of opening books. When it comes to chess literature, opening manuals are by the most common and popular.
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