Learning openings?

Originally posted by Varenka
I'm sure he will make some blunders during the day but these will be relatively rare. If he blunders his queen and both rooks, I'll take him... maybe... 😉

i would love to see some amateur guy make headlines, that is of course presuming that you are an amateur, its will be great for Scottish chess nad an awesome event, will it be played with score sheets and the like or just kind of like blitz, surely he will have loads of people to get through there will not be much time for formalities.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
will it be played with score sheets and the like or just kind of like blitz

Score sheets are not required but some people like to record their game out of interest. I've watched Aagaard do a simul previously and he made it a fun event rather than too serious.

Originally posted by Varenka
Score sheets are not required but some people like to record their game out of interest. I've watched Aagaard do a simul previously and he made it a fun event rather than too serious.

oh man its gonna be awesome, ive never been to a chess event in my life before.😲

Originally posted by aandjx
i need help in openings!please

I'm sure this was mentioned earlier in the thread, but I guess it bears repeating. Based on a quick look at a couple of your games, I think you need to start off learning the basic opening principles. You can find these principles in a lot of places - books, on the web, etc. If you don't know where to look, here's a few web sources to get you started.

http://www.academicchess.org/learn/Biographies/shoremans30rules.shtml

http://danheisman.home.comcast.net/~danheisman/Articles/Dan_sayings.html#Opening

http://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman53.pdf

Edit - Here's another link that might help. The sections to read on this next page are Basic Opening Strategy, and A Collection of Chess Wisdom.

http://chessville.com/instruction/Openings/OpeningResources.htm