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Kevin Lincoln's avatar

I really relate to this! I feel the Cheesecake Factory problem in many areas of my life — what to read, what to watch, what chess books to study...

My solution has been to pick one Chessable author and just learn their approach for White and Black. It's somewhat arbitrary, but it's worked out pretty well so far. I often feel the temptation to go off and learn another opening, but usually I can just think for a bit about how long it's taken me to become comfortable in THESE openings and it offers enough pause.

That being said, this post has given me the itch yet again...

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Andy Lee's avatar

Oops, that was the opposite effect that this post was supposed to have - less wandering between opening systems, not more!

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Kevin Lincoln's avatar

Talking about openings is the chess equivalent of telling someone not to think of a pink elephant... except in this case, I'm googling the Hippo

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