Manual de Chess King 2015 | Page 118

SPOTTING YOUR OWN WEAKNESSES You can use that same technique for spotting your own weaknesses in the openings. What you discover might surprise you; the first time I did this with my own games, it sure shocked me. Do a database search for your games with the White pieces and merge them into a tree. Do the same for your games as Black. Open each tree and look at the numbers (it's one of the few times that you can actually take a tree's statistics at face value); look for openings in which you score very poorly. You should go back and study some basic ideas in those openings, and maybe a couple of main variations to reinforce those ideas. The you should reload the program's comprehensive opening tree and step through your games using those “bad” openings; in games where you deviated in the opening, the moves in large tree will show you what you should have played. 118 chessking.com