The Technique is to memorize every game from former World Champions without giving it any thought or analysis.
We have these huge database of PGN data available for free. And lichess studies to organize those by Person, Event etc.
I would start with 60 Memorable games by Bobby Fischer, and end with Tata Steel 2023 with Magnus Carlsen games.
It's spending little effort on thinking or analysing. Just memorization by playing the games over and over again until you get it right.
Do you think this would be a good use of time to study chess with this technique?
Do you mean to Study Chess in this way ?
@herokuIt's quite absurd...another one of these guys who thinks that chess is all "just memory."
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I spent years studying opening books and games. I gained rating points slowly. In the past year really I gained 150-250 points just on tactics incorporated in my studies. Silmans. Endgame course, and a good tactics book will take you far. Don't memorize the moves memorize why. Irving Chernevs Logical chess move by move is best. Good luck!
"... Memory is too valuable to be stocked with trifles. Of my fifty-seven years I have applied at least thirty to forgetting most of what I had learned or read, and since I succeeded in this I have acquired a certain ease and cheer which I should never again like to be without. If need be, I can increase my skill in Chess, if need be I can do that of which I have no idea at present. I have stored little in my memory, but I can apply that little, and it is of good use in many and varied emergencies. I keep it in order, but resist every attempt to increase its dead weight. ..." — Emanuel Lasker, Lasker’s Manual of Chess
Probably not so good. In my opinion first you need know endings, middlegame strategy, openings and calculate on a GM level and then and only then you start to memorise former champion's games.
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That's terrible. Even if you do it, you will eventually be trapped by the massive complexity the game of chess has. I won't encourage you to do it but won't stop you from doing it either. I would suggest you to study about positional analysis in chess.
