While I agree with others here in that studying tactics and endgames is a better use of your time if you want to step up your game, you can still improve your o

While I agree with others here in that studying tactics and endgames is a better use of your time if you want to step up your game, you can still improve your opening without actively studying it. I remember when I was starting out I used to watch a lot of Jonathan Schrantz videos out of sheer interest and I ended up picking up quite a lot of ideas and principles all the while having fun. So definitely check out some [1] of his Saint Louis Chess Club lectures! He also has his own YouTube (as well as Twitch) channel [2] where he mostly goofs around and beats not only strong players but also chess engines with incredibly dubious openings. On a different note, in case anyone finds it helpful, here's a CLI tool [3] I wrote last week which you can use to build opening repertoires. The intended use case is to 1) download the games of a chess player from a website like openingtree.com, 2) run the tool on the fetched PGN file to generate an opening repertoire, and 3) import the output into a study tool like lichess or chessable. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUuueHFfFs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxUuueHFfFs [2]: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanSchrantz https://www.youtube.com/c/JonathanSchrantz [3]: https://github.com/zcesur/opening-repertoire https://github.com/zcesur/opening-repertoire