You start yawning, as you’ve played this position a thousand times and need something new. Maybe your chess games keep reaching the same sterile positions. Maybe you have fallen down this rabbit hole yourself. Arguably there are more books on openings than what is good for us, but it’s certainly a lot of fun. Whenever I visit the chess section at a bookstore, I see a token endgame book, a few general manuals, the current flavour of the month and then rows and rows of opening books. When it comes to chess literature, opening manuals are by the most common and popular.
