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01/27/2005
Let's Get Away from the Opening, by GM Nigel
I've lost count of the number of times I've heard people blame 'lack of opening knowledge' for an untoward result in one of their games. But it's a convenient get out clause, a way of taking the responsibility for a loss away and putting it 'lack of time for study' or some such thing. What has always happened is that they made some sort of tactical or strategic error in or just after the opening and decided that this could have been avoided by 'knowing' a series of moves. But the real responsibility lies in their overall playing strength; tactical ability, positional 'feel' and the sense for 'game playing', which is never touched upon in the supposedly worthy works of certain pretentious chess authors.
The best recommendation I can give is to repeat Frank Marshall's 'game a day'
suggestion and ta