So I just finished the openings sections of the course and am finally feeling confident in having openings for both white, black. I previously toyed with a lot more advanced openings that frankly weren’t appropriate for my 800-ish level on rapid. The fact that the Owens Defense and Stonewall are both simple in terms of memorization and typically lead to me winning or losing in the middle and end games puts much less pressure on me in regards to learning openings.

Now I need to figure out how to be less blunder-ful in the middlegame, and onto the end game! Thanks!