Author: Mark Boylan
Date: 16:05:46 02/28/06
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After reading what everyone had to say on this topic, I've come up with a plan... What Stephen says makes perfect sense to me. Memorizing opening moves is silly if you don't understand them. But I tend to learn better if I verbalize the ideas by writing them down. And bookup seems like the perfect virtual notebook for recording ideas related to chess positions. So, taking Mike's "one move for one side, all moves for the other" approach a step further, I've decided to do this: I will use an opening introduction as Joseph suggested (but a book instead of a video. I can just picture myself rewinding & fast-forwarding over & over) to enter the moves as I read. But instead of entering only the response that I want to give, as Mike suggested, I will also enter the other possible responses as the leaf nodes. This will give me a place to record why I don't like that move. And I will only extend the nodes that follow the move that I wish to make. As I enter each position I will explain why I've chosen to make that move or why I've chosen to avoid that move. I think this is probably much different from how a more experienced player probably uses bookup, but I think it will work for me. Hopefully I'll get into some middlegames that aren't already lost. And years from now, I can go back and read how naive I was. :)
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