TrainingOpening

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

In this two-volume video course former world-champion and startrainer Rustam Kasimdzhanov shows you the ins and outs of this hugely complex opening.

Vol. 1: Panov and Two Knights

Vol. 1: Panov and Two Knights

2.Nf3 d5 3.d3, 2.d4 d5 3.f3 - Fantasy Variation, 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 Exchange Variation

Vol. 1: Panov and Two Knights

For a quick introduction to the program. The most important functions explained in detail.

More than 1 million games from the engine room of playchess.com form the basis of the English Opening Powerbook 2023, with in addition 123 000 games from Mega and from correspondence chess.

The videos deal with the exciting French Advance Variation, starting with 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5. Besides numerous sidelines, the main focus is on the two most played systems with 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 and 5...Bd7.

The major part of the material on which the Caro-Kann Powerbook 2023 is based is taken from the engine room of playchess.com: 755 000 games. To that imposing corpus we have added another 69 000 games from Mega and from correspondence chess.

The repertoire against the Giuoco Pianissimo examined on this video course, provides Black with methods of evading this slightly one-sided pattern, yielding sound play in double-edged positions.

This video course is intended as a tactical guide for Black, featuring themes such as the tactical abilities of the c5-bishop and the relatively restricted c6-knight, the kingside attack and the fight for the centre.

We get the Slav after the moves 1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6. This video course will focus on 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 and now dxc4, but the white alternatives leading up to the mainline are also discussed in great detail.

Interesting and entertaining stories and pictorials around chess. Studies and problems, and how amateurs and world world-class players react to them.