Body: <p>my question can be seen in the title. I used to play chess competitively in my teenager-years and would like to come back to it now. The important stuff is still in my head and I am not doing too bad when playing rapid online, but my opening-knowledge has been erased nearly entirely. I am going to play a local tournament soon and would like to learn some openings at least on the surface, so what's a good way to do so?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: What did you play in these teenager years?
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Comments.Text: I mainly played French opening, Sicilian and Wolga gambit against d4, and 1.e4 2.Lc4 with white
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Comments.Text: @Daniel There's a lot of content out there. You can browse an opening tree based on lines you still remember and brush up on some basic move order, e.g. [lichess opening explorer](https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer). There are also a ton of video series out there, both on youtube and other places like the [chess24 series](https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries?lang=en). On the other hand, try to focus more on remember/learning how to reason about openings, as opposed to memorizing entire move orders, see for instance the discussions [here](https://chess.stackexchange.com/q/20022/3594).
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Comments.Text: The best way to learning at your skill level is not learning it at all
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Title: What's a good way to learn openings when coming back to chess as a former 1400-1600 player?
ThreadText: # What's a good way to learn openings when coming back to chess as a former 1400-1600 player?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-21)
  
  my question can be seen in the title. I used to play chess competitively in my teenager-years and would like to come back to it now. The important stuff is still in my head and I am not doing too bad when playing rapid online, but my opening-knowledge has been erased nearly entirely. I am going to play a local tournament soon and would like to learn some openings at least on the surface, so what's a good way to do so?
  
  **Tags:** opening, beginner
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: What did you play in these teenager years?  
  > **username_0**: I mainly played French opening, Sicilian and Wolga gambit against d4, and 1.e4 2.Lc4 with white  
  > **username_2**: @username_0 There's a lot of content out there. You can browse an opening tree based on lines you still remember and brush up on some basic move order, e.g. [lichess opening explorer](https://lichess.org/analysis#explorer). There are also a ton of video series out there, both on youtube and other places like the [chess24 series](https://chess24.com/en/learn/videoseries?lang=en). On the other hand, try to focus more on remember/learning how to reason about openings, as opposed to memorizing entire move orders, see for instance the discussions [here](https://chess.stackexchange.com/q/20022/3594).  
  > **username_3**: The best way to learning at your skill level is not learning it at all  
  
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