Well. Sure remembering opening is a part of the game. But the reason is that someone have studied the opening and found what moves are good and why. Instead of just learning the book move, try to learn why it's a good move. And what other move could also be played. Most games last for 50-100 moves. I can't remember anything after like 15 moves and there just to many variations after like 5 moves to learn them all if your not GM level. Looking at your raring I can tell you that you have a long way to go. If you really want to giv chess a chansen you should study the game. Buy a chess book for beginners and start understand all parts of the game. Not just good openings. When your rating increases you will find the game harder and harder. Tactics and strategies are the most important parts of the game. The opening is just a necessity. Some moves are just not good. But you have to find what you like.
Chess...a memory game?
i have one and only one advice for you. play gambits. get an opening advantage and then you will see how much chess is a game of creativity much more than of memory.
Up to a point, the opening can be purely memory. At the top level, this is especially the case, when it is not unusual for the game to begin with 15 or 20 moves of theory being blitzed out. The extent of this memorization naturally decreases as you go down the rating ladder.
People think memorization only applies to opening theory, but it can also be about things such as tactics or strategy.
Take puzzle rush, for example: besides it being good fun and quite addictive, the whole educational point of the game mode is to teach pattern recognition. This means that when you are playing your own games you will often be able to implement a similar tactic that you saw in puzzle rush. This is down to the constellation of the pieces on the board.
However, what about the times when you are out of the opening and there is no tactics at your disposal. Then the ability to play solid chess, to create strengths and weaknesses, comes in. The only memorization required here is of some strategical guidelines.
At the lower ranks, there is next to no need for memorization of opening theory. You can often get by just by following opening principles. It's not as if you're going to be debating the nuances of the Sicilian Shveshnikov the next time you play a game or match (or maybe it is 
), so learning the theory anywhere past move 6 or 8 will be a waste of time.
On the other hand, memorizing tactical patterns will greatly help your game. I'd advise anyone hoping to improve to do so.
He/She is right. Chess is mostly about tactics, strategy and making plans, but also partly about memorizing mating patterns and openings and even less about psychology.
… Last year i discovered Chess.com and started to play every day i'm not very good but i enjoy playing so i did the lessons, … I got into the conclusion that i'ts primerally a memory game. Every time i played doing an specific opening without any memorization of what comes next after the first opening moves i got an average to poor winning rate but every time i memorized an opening and it's subsequential next moves my sucess rate improved a lot ...
I think that many players go through a stage where opening traps are often a deciding factor of a game, but, if one keeps at it, one gets past that point, knowing some of the traps and acquiring an ability to sense others.
"... For beginning players, [Discovering Chess Openings] will offer an opportunity to start out on the right foot and really get a feel for what is happening on the board. ..." - FM Carsten Hansen (2006)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627114655/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/hansen91.pdf
... and when i analyze my games in the AI there was always the "This is a book move" meaning "you're just following the instructions" even thought i didn't knew it was a book move. ...
I suspect/hope that AIs identify book moves so that you can have the feeling of progress that should come with the discovery that one was able to play a book move without knowing what the book said.
… Also every time i memorized the "counter" openings like if the guy opens with the X i'll do the Y opening i notice a much higher chance of winning (providing i didn't do any stupid mistakes). It came to a point where i did a test, i played couple of games using a chess book to check my "counters" so for example if my opponent was opening "Sicilian" i looked at the book to see which "counter opening" should i used against that and i started my game from there, comparing this to the games i played "unassisted" it worked most of the times =/ ...
Again, this is an effect that can be more pronounced at the beginning. Later, one improves one's ability to come up with reasonable moves without knowing what the book says.
He/She is right. Chess is mostly about tactics, strategy and making plans, but also partly about memorizing mating patterns and openings and even less about psychology.
I’ve only lost 4 games on here ever and even won when I was two rooks down so I think I would know better than anyone and it has nothing to do with memory
… So i came to a conclusion that even if you're dumb as a bucket of rocks but you have a great memory you'll most likely be a good/great chess player. (not the best of course). ...
Memory of openings is a small part of chess at lower levels. Understanding is the major factor.
"... for those that want to be as good as they can be, they'll have to work hard.
Play opponents who are better than you … . Learn basic endgames. Create a simple opening repertoire (understanding the moves are far more important than memorizing them). Study tactics. And pick up tons of patterns. That’s the drumbeat of success. ..." - IM Jeremy Silman (December 27, 2018)
https://www.chess.com/article/view/little-things-that-help-your-game
"... Overall, I would advise most players to stick to a fairly limited range of openings, and not to worry about learning too much by heart. ..." - FM Steve Giddins (2008)
"... I feel that the main reasons to buy an opening book are to give a good overview of the opening, and to explain general plans and ideas. ..." - GM John Nunn (2006)
"... the average player only needs to know a limited amount about the openings he plays. Providing he understands the main aims of the opening, a few typical plans and a handful of basic variations, that is enough. ..." - FM Steve Giddins (2008)
I read somewhere that chess is not a game of memory but of forgetting! Most mistakes are made not thinking your opponent's last move has changed the position. So...you must forget the last position on each move.
“The student must avoid the trap of memorisation” - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
I'm in the same exact situation. I think its about patterns. Mostly, if you don't defend certain openings the exact way they are supposed to be defended, its usually over if the opponent is good enough. Memory is applied in opening and basic principles.
yah I guess.let's keep playing to find out!
“The student must avoid the trap of memorisation” - Eugene Znosko-Borovsky
I found both of these quotes in a book called Studying Chess Made Easy by Andy Soltis. In the same chapter, he makes it clear that memorisation is fine, as long as you understand. This is extremely important.
Great book, by the way. I've skimmed over the whole thing in a day and learnt a lot.
Simply play the London System. It is a solid setup that can be premoved, and it requires almost no memorization.
Well, it is a memory game too among the rest.
If you could read on every single position in game, learn what the best move is for each of those, and remember absolutely everything about every single position there is, you would be a chess champion lol.
So yea, it is a memory game too, among the rest. But human can't handle that "perfection" obviously.
So, i've got very disappointed with chess since i started to play "heavily". Just asking for some advices to make me rescue my love for chess.
Just to clarify, i play chess since i was a kid but never got too invested in learning deeply i did some as a kid but i just pretty much played for fun during my school years and early adult. I've always thought chess as game of intelligence.
Last year i discovered Chess.com and started to play every day i'm not very good but i enjoy playing so i did the lessons, learned the opening, strategies etc. but the more i learned the more i started to feel frustraded.
I got into the conclusion that i'ts primerally a memory game.
Every time i played doing an specific opening without any memorization of what comes next after the first opening moves i got an average to poor winning rate but every time i memorized an opening and it's subsequential next moves my sucess rate improved a lot and when i analyze my games in the AI there was always the "This is a book move" meaning "you're just following the instructions" even thought i didn't knew it was a book move.
Also every time i memorized the "counter" openings like if the guy opens with the X i'll do the Y opening i notice a much higher chance of winning (providing i didn't do any stupid mistakes). It came to a point where i did a test, i played couple of games using a chess book to check my "counters" so for example if my opponent was opening "Sicilian" i looked at the book to see which "counter opening" should i used against that and i started my game from there, comparing this to the games i played "unassisted" it worked most of the times =/
So i came to a conclusion that even if you're dumb as a bucket of rocks but you have a great memory you'll most likely be a good/great chess player. (not the best of course). This made me not wanting to play chess any more dunno if i had a romanticized idea of chess.
Sorry for my misspelling. Thank you in advance for your replys.