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how do i get myself to just quit being lazy and learn a new opening

you all are afraid of trying out new openings cause you're all afraid to alose rating, that is the main reason why people keep spamming 1.2 openings forever, try out everything, see where the game leads to, but no one does that, cause the rating is so important for everyone, its just I dont understand why, it really is ust an arbitrary nr on the internet, you are going to play no matter what it is anyway, so why not experiment wiht different openings, it's not like someone is going to invite you to some tournament if you're some number rating on the internet

you all are afraid of trying out new openings cause you're all afraid to alose rating, that is the main reason why people keep spamming 1.2 openings forever, try out everything, see where the game leads to, but no one does that, cause the rating is so important for everyone, its just I dont understand why, it really is ust an arbitrary nr on the internet, you are going to play no matter what it is anyway, so why not experiment wiht different openings, it's not like someone is going to invite you to some tournament if you're some number rating on the internet

@N00801, if you look @Mind-Mosaic-007 was saying that they are wanting to learn the English, so if the English is what they want to learn then they should learn the English. because trying a lot of different openings is not going to teach them the English.

@N00801, if you look @Mind-Mosaic-007 was saying that they are wanting to learn the English, so if the English is what they want to learn then they should learn the English. because trying a lot of different openings is not going to teach them the English.

I don’t think that @Mind-Mosaic-007 is afraid to lose rating because they don’t even have a true rating here on lichess yet. There rating is still wearing a question mark.

I don’t think that @Mind-Mosaic-007 is afraid to lose rating because they don’t even have a true rating here on lichess yet. There rating is still wearing a question mark.

Patience. Just start mainline Scotch for example.
Create an interactive study.
Create 4 sidelines of mainline covering most played GOOD moves by opponents. Go up to move 6.
Understand the positions bc you cant study and memorize sidelines of 15 different move orders. Just know if they dont play top 4 then their move is probably bad. So just react smart instead of memorize new lines. Test yourself on those studies throughout each week.

After 3 months expand those sidelines to 6 and up to move 10 or 12. After 3 more months expand to move 15 or 16. But understand the positions and strategies not just memorize move orders.
#Also spend equal amount of time studying games in those variations. Test yourself to see if you know the moves.

This is 600 mile marathon not a sprint.

Patience. Just start mainline Scotch for example. Create an interactive study. Create 4 sidelines of mainline covering most played GOOD moves by opponents. Go up to move 6. Understand the positions bc you cant study and memorize sidelines of 15 different move orders. Just know if they dont play top 4 then their move is probably bad. So just react smart instead of memorize new lines. Test yourself on those studies throughout each week. After 3 months expand those sidelines to 6 and up to move 10 or 12. After 3 more months expand to move 15 or 16. But understand the positions and strategies not just memorize move orders. #Also spend equal amount of time studying games in those variations. Test yourself to see if you know the moves. This is 600 mile marathon not a sprint.

I have changed openings several times over the past 60 years, and "time to stop being lazy" has never been my motivation. Curiosity has been. Usually it has been because I have seen a game that enthralled me, made me ask, "why can't I play like that?" Often this leads me back to studying the games of the famous master who played the game, and so I begin to copy that player's repertoire. And then others with coinciding repertoires, then I started to focus on the opening itself.
In one respect, I have tried to emulate Botvinnik.He was famous for specializing in just a few select openings at any one time, but he was very flexible and changed his repertoire several times throughout his long career.

I have changed openings several times over the past 60 years, and "time to stop being lazy" has never been my motivation. Curiosity has been. Usually it has been because I have seen a game that enthralled me, made me ask, "why can't I play like that?" Often this leads me back to studying the games of the famous master who played the game, and so I begin to copy that player's repertoire. And then others with coinciding repertoires, then I started to focus on the opening itself. In one respect, I have tried to emulate Botvinnik.He was famous for specializing in just a few select openings at any one time, but he was very flexible and changed his repertoire several times throughout his long career.

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