{"id":978,"date":"2021-04-23T09:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T09:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/?p=978"},"modified":"2022-06-30T15:21:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-30T15:21:55","slug":"why-study-chess-openings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chessquestions.com\/why-study-chess-openings\/","title":{"rendered":"Chess Openings: Necessary or Over-studied"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many people wonder if studying chess openings is necessary or a waste of time. This blog post looks at both sides to answer the question for you. The first point that we will cover is why it is important to study chess opening theory in general. We then explore the benefits and drawbacks of over-studying your opening<\/a>, before concluding with some final thoughts on whether or not it matters which openings you know!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Studying chess openings has many important benefits for a novice player including gaining early advantage and control from the starting position, the ability to maintain strategy, to avoid novice traps, and not to waste precious time at the opening phase.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Some novice players will learn and perfect just a few popular openings and perform very well, leaving others who constantly study opening at a loss as to why their chess abilities are not better despite studying openings constantly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n