This is so frustrating. I feel like I cant improve because I can't learn openings well. I feel like there's an approach that I'm over looking or something.
I noticed most people can use databases, but I just get information overload with databases.
The majority of my lost games are lost right in the opening.
By the time I make it to the middle game, I'm already in a losing position.
If I study one line, Ill get a game or two with it and it works for me, and the all of a sudden, I'm paired with people who play the EXACT line or opening that perfectly refutes what I'm playing. Or I'm just not properly studied on the responses that I should play to their opening and I just lose right out of the opening.
Ive hired chess coaches, I'm a premium member of Chess.com, I watch opening trainings, I watch 1-2 hours of chess every night before I go to bed for the last 7 years... Ive tried and failed at database studying.
When I hire coaches, they just open a database and start saying a bunch of notion and lose me right away.
HOW TF am I supposed to remember all these damn lines?!
Please don't give me the BS answers about "Don't remember the openings, focus on understanding the opening themes."
That's BS.
When I watch these Super GM's play, they say are trying to RECALL from memory the correct moves.
They say things, like "this is the correct response to this" or "I cant remember what goes next", or "some GM played this [move] in response to this [move ] in some random tournament 25 years ago."
HOW do these people do this?
I'm not a nerd. Do I just need to accept that only chess nerds (people who get pleasure from discussing opening variations for fun) can learn this?
I'm a bible history nerd, not a chess nerd. I can remember and quote bible verses and historical references the way super Gms remember and quote lines and variations.
Is my brain just wired differently?
Is there an approach for people who think and learn like me?
I noticed most people can use databases, but I just get information overload with databases.
The majority of my lost games are lost right in the opening.
By the time I make it to the middle game, I'm already in a losing position.
If I study one line, Ill get a game or two with it and it works for me, and the all of a sudden, I'm paired with people who play the EXACT line or opening that perfectly refutes what I'm playing. Or I'm just not properly studied on the responses that I should play to their opening and I just lose right out of the opening.
Ive hired chess coaches, I'm a premium member of Chess.com, I watch opening trainings, I watch 1-2 hours of chess every night before I go to bed for the last 7 years... Ive tried and failed at database studying.
When I hire coaches, they just open a database and start saying a bunch of notion and lose me right away.
HOW TF am I supposed to remember all these damn lines?!
Please don't give me the BS answers about "Don't remember the openings, focus on understanding the opening themes."
That's BS.
When I watch these Super GM's play, they say are trying to RECALL from memory the correct moves.
They say things, like "this is the correct response to this" or "I cant remember what goes next", or "some GM played this [move] in response to this [move ] in some random tournament 25 years ago."
HOW do these people do this?
I'm not a nerd. Do I just need to accept that only chess nerds (people who get pleasure from discussing opening variations for fun) can learn this?
I'm a bible history nerd, not a chess nerd. I can remember and quote bible verses and historical references the way super Gms remember and quote lines and variations.
Is my brain just wired differently?
Is there an approach for people who think and learn like me?