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Openings are curious. They are powerful because they address many
issues or very strongly one issue.

But their not magical mystery walk. Motivations can be chased through
good play. Also, everyone abandons an opening at some point.

They're not magical mystery walk? That's not quite right. Many of them
are not magical mystery walk.

Definition:

magical mystery walk - moves only a computer can see the benefit of
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Mandraphilia wrote:

Openings are curious.-a They are powerful because they address many
issues or very strongly one issue.

But their not magical mystery walk. Motivations can be chased through
good play.-a Also, everyone abandons an opening at some point.

Until you reach 2000, and arguably well beyond that, it is far more
important to know the ideas behind the openings than specific variations.

As you say, at some point one of you will leave the opening, whereupon
knowing the idea of the opening will give you some guidance, while the
painful memorization of specific variations will be useless.

Reuben Fine even wrote a book "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings", on
this topic. While many new ideas have come up since then, it is still
very good on the classic openings.


William Hyde

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On Tue, 8 Jul 2025 17:18:49 -0400, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
wrote:

Reuben Fine even wrote a book "The Ideas Behind the Chess Openings", on
this topic. While many new ideas have come up since then, it is still
very good on the classic openings.

Yes it is - and while numerous GMs have written books like this nobody
in my opinion has come close to matching the original.
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