Opening Champion Studies - A Better Way to Learn Openings in 2024

Enjoy scrolling through the player's database for opening ideas?

Raise your hand if you've spent many hours scrolling through the player's database of your favorite online players, yet still do not have a good grasp of their openings? (cough cough, yes that's me). What is the disconnect?

GM Robert Hungaski recently told a story about how Ulf Andersson would not use words to teach chess, rather he would say let's play this out and after I beat you 10 times in this position it will start getting into your head how this works.

Scrolling the player's database, while fun, is plainly not enough to learn an opening very well. We've all heard about the wonders of spaced-repetition learning, but how do we do it and must we go through paid gatekeepers?

Are gatekeepers for spaced-repetition learning necessary?

The Ulf Andersson story rang true with me. Many of us need to repeatedly drill openings to have a chance to retain them. That's where spaced-repetition comes in. Yet, a certain site known for their spaced-repetition program seems to tightly control the data and limit one's access to paid courses which might only cover a small fraction of what one needs to know. Is there a better way?

Opening Champion Studies - A Better Way to Learn Openings in 2024

We're introducing an innovative new way to learn openings which avoids the space-repetition gate-keepers. The idea is simple: identify your favorite online champion (exponent) of a particular opening, and with the help of the LichessTools resource, quickly develop an opening repertoire based on what the exponent has played in blitz games and then drill the opening lines in interactive studies. LichessTools is available here:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/langlhlcknngldkeliapahbhbcmlcbcj

I have posted over a dozen opening champion studies listed in this catalogue and many more are in the pipeline. Which I can happily crank out in a short time frame with the help of LichessTools. I believe these opening champion studies have great instructive value. Once our methods of creating these studies become more widely known you may see such studies spring up like mushrooms after a rain. A toast for the new year, let's spread the joy of learning openings from our favorite online exponents (for free).

Cheers, Dsoul20