Chess Training Tips-Master a few Openings

Chess Training Tips-Master a few Openings
Master an opening as white and two black openings against king and queen openings.Master one opening for White, and two defenses for Black, against queen and king-side openings.
Learn them better than anyone else in your area. This alone should be good for dozens of points in tournaments. Again, another common sense idea.
I used to study openings with many partners. At one time I used to study a lot with my friend, FIDE-rated Master, Moshe Khatena. We would go over every line and every note in ECO on a line. Take the Queen's Indian Defense: I remember studying this opening with Moshe when I lived on LongLeaf Drive. We went through a whole book on it, all the lines and notes on the Q.I.D. and even we would take a special interest in a position and take it home to study and work on it further. I was very impressed my Moshe's eagerness and the desire to be methodical. I remember spending an entire afternoon on one ECO sub-note!
Then we would play that line only, in speed chess from both the White and Black side of the board.
This is the only way to really learn an opening.