I am an enthusiastic player of chess...and a full time working professional...
This makes your job more difficult. There are lots of material out there, but you will need to manage your time to coordinate your work and chess studying.
How to prepare fundamental opening lines to play as white or black...which openings to start with?
It depends on your preferences, but no matter which opening you choose, you can get a good insight of it from Starting Out series.
If you wish to play King's gambit just find Starting Out King's Gambit book and so on.
These books describe general moves, tell you if certain line requires thorough study or if you can just get by with general opening principles. They also mention typical endings and middlegame structures characteristic for the opening.
All in all I find them to be a great starting reference for a beginner.
How to master the well established book openings for various games along with their approaches/ideologies/commentaries...
Once you learn the basics, you will need stronger opening books and you will need middlegame/endgame books.
For this you will need to ask a separate question here and people will be able to recommend you something. At this moment it is too broad and opening-dependable.
Please tell me which best books to refer or which chess software to be purchased...for doing so? I won't mind purchasing the same or
getting premium memberships, if any??
For learning software, you could use ChessBase. They also offer videos that explain openings/endgames/middlegames...
Fritz, Houdini, Rybka are some of the strong chess engines. You could also get Stockfish as it is free and is strong as well.
I am good at playing middle games with tactics and exploiting
opportunities...but always lose time in opening phase and generally
lost the game due to time overruns...i tried playing 10 min live games
on chess.com
Knowing your openings will solve this problem.
What is all about chess engines...repertoires...pgn etc.
I do not understand this one.
How to play further on an independent computer and to record my moves for further analysis after having played with book openings..?
Any engine does this automatically as far as I know. The game only needs to be saved and you can replay it. I think that it is auto-saved by default.
You also have an option for engine to analyze your game which is good to see where did you go wrong.
During play there is an option to "turn on the Coach" where engine can warn you if you made a bad move or can suggest a move if you are in doubt.
Still, it is best to pick an engine and ask this as a separate question.
Please tell me about ratings??? how a player becomes IM, GM so on so forth...
As far as I know, you need 2400 rating and to fulfill IM norm. For GM you need rating greater than 2500 and also 3 title norms. More about this can be found in this Wikipedia article.
Is there anybody who can truly help to get answers to these questions
or suggest me some readings or website references to get solved the
same...thanks in advance to all of you who can please help me out...
I think I just did :)
Welcome to Chess SE, I hope this answer helped you a little.
In the future try to ask questions that can have short answers so you can avoid negative points. You can start by reading through the help section in your upper right corner. I would start with the tour.
Best regards and good luck in your study!
