You wouldn’t wear your friend’s small t-shirt, would you? In this article, we’ll speak about the reasons why you shouldn’t use other people’s PGN files and the best way to create your own. In the best-case scenario, they try to study the PGN and memorize the lines, but ultimately this proves unsuccessful most of the time.Īs we’ve already discussed in our article about memorizing variations, you don’t actually need to memorize variations. And, if a friend of theirs has already watched a course and created their PGN file, they simply ask them to send it their way so that they “know” the opening too. So many chess players genuinely believe that if they have the PGN of a particular opening, they already know it. On the one hand, it’s quite funny, but on the other, it’s quite sad.
“Oooh, wow!! How did you learn all of that?” “Well, I’m glad you asked.I can play the Queen’s Gambit, the Nimzo Indian, the Grunfeld, the King’s Indian, and of course, the Semi-Slav.”