Overview
Openings for Club Players – Opening Repertoire for Black
If you want to be able to get better positions out of the opening – and avoid any nasty traps – this comprehensive repertoire from IM Valeri Lilov is the ideal solution. IM Lilov has selected his favorite systems to deal with the openings you are most likely to face in club and tournament play.
The next time you have to face that tricky variation, you’ll be ready to turn the tables with deeper strategic understanding, knowledge of the major weaknesses and how to exploit them plus a few sneaky tricks of your own!
By focusing on the major ideas for Black against the openings you’re most likely to face in club and tournament play, IM Valeri Lilov makes it easy to remember what you should be doing to play for the win and avoid defeat.
Imagine having instant access to IM coaching on any opening you might need to learn! Huge, unreadable opening books are a thing of the past. Now you have the knowledge you need at your fingertips.
This 11 hour course is your new openings trainer, preparing you to take on and beat your rivals in their favorite openings!
Chapter Outline:
- How to play against the English Opening
- Good plans against 1.d4 and 1.Nf3
- How to play the Dutch Leningrad
- How to play the Dutch Stonewall
- What to do when the Queen’s pawn is exchanged in the Stonewall
- How to play against Stonewall deviations
- How to play against anti-Dutch lines
- How to play the King’s Indian Defense against the Classical variation
- How to play the KID against the Saemisch and Yugoslav variations
- How to play against the Nimzo-Indian Bd2 line
- How to play against the Nimzo-Indian Bg5 line
- How to play against the Nimzo-Indian f3 line
- How to play against the Nimzo-Indian Qc2 line
- How to play the Queen’s Gambit Accepted against a4
- How to play the Queen’s Gambit Accepted with …a6 and …Bg4
- How to play the Queen’s Gambit Accepted with …c5 and …a6
- How to play the Queen’s Gambit Accepted against 3.e4
- How to play the Queen’s Gambit Accepted against 3.Nc3
- A repertoire for Black against anti-Queen’s Gambit lines
- How to play the Tarrasch Defense
- How to play the Tarrasch Defense, Swedish variation
- How to play the Tarrasch, von Hennig-Shara Gambit
- How to play the Tarrasch Defense against other lines
- How to play the Volga-Benko Gambit
- How to play the Caro-Kann Defense, main lines
- How to play the Caro-Kann Defense with 3.e5 c5
- How to play the Caro-Kann Defense with 3.e5 Bf5
- How to play against the Closed Sicilian Defense
- How to play against the Sicilian Alapin
- How to play against 1.e4
- How to play the Open Ruy Lopez
- How to play the Ruy Lopez, Breyer Defense
- How to play the Ruy Lopez, Moeller Defense
- How to play against the Italian Game
- How to play against the Scotch Opening with 4…Bc5
- How to play the Scandinavian Defense, 3…Qd6
- How to play against 1.e4, offbeat lines