00:00That is in the limelight.
00:06If you have appetite for opening studies, just look at early stage.
00:10There's always room, especially at the club level.
00:14It will be more difficult, of course, to make real improvement at 25, 26, 2700.
00:21Though the moves that I mentioned, H3 and H4, are played by very strong players.
00:25H3 by Karekin, for instance.
00:26The H4, also by 2700-plus players.
00:32And my recommendation would be that you make an assessment.
00:41A genuine assessment of your expectations from the openings.
00:46Maybe you believe that you'll be comfortable by playing some sharp,
00:53though semi-correct openings.
00:54I can, let's be honest, King's Gambit, semi-correct openings.
00:59But it still can work if your opponent is not ready,
01:02because at the end of the day, it's not about objective value of the position only,
01:08but it's also about your ability to surprise your opponent.
01:12Sometimes surprising your opponent works well.
01:15And I still feel that there's plenty of room for improvement.
01:21It's not necessarily for doing Fisher's 960, just reshuffling the pieces.
01:25But even with our classical, old-fashioned position, there's still plenty of room.
01:30But it will be your choice.
01:33I believe that now it's for you to make all this work.
01:36Because unlike us, 34 years ago, you have almost unlimited opportunities to study these openings
01:45and to have a tree in one minute.
01:52That's one minute, I'm old-fashioned.
01:54It takes time for me.
01:55I'm sure for young players it takes 10 seconds to have a tree with all the games played.
02:00And I'm sure for young players it takes 10 seconds to have a tree with all the games played.
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