I had spent two years working through the book but had simply not absorbed the information well enough to recognise the Grünfeld Defence the first time I encountered it in a competition. However, it was only when I got back to my hotel room and looked up the opening in Watson’s tome that I realized what it was. (I posted a rather poor quality video about the game on YouTube.) In fact, by the summer of 2018 when I entered an afternoon open tournament at the British Chess Championships in Hull, I was bested by a teenager who responded to my 1.d4 opening with the Grünfeld Defence. I took copious notes of all the variations, with red lines linking the variations of variations and so on. I spent the next couple of years slowly plodding through the book. ![]() ![]() The Slow Approach to Learning the Openings… for the British Chess Championships in Bournemouth in the summer of 2016. ![]() The project developed out of my attempt to improve my technique in the opening when I bought John Watson’s A Strategic Chess Opening Repertoire for White from just before heading to the U.K.
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