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The French Defense remains one of the most resilient and strategically rich openings for Black, offering a balance between solid structures and sharp counterplay. In this cutting-edge course, three world-class Grandmasters—Alexey Dreev, Baadur Jobava, and Pier Luigi Basso—combine their expertise to deliver a comprehensive and practical repertoire for White against the French.
This is the first part of a two-part series, covering key lines after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3, ensuring that you have the best tools to challenge Black’s setup.

GM Alexey Dreev and GM Pier Luigi Basso are launching a brand-new series: Dreev University.
Every month on the 21st, they will release a structured course designed to elevate your middlegame and endgame understanding. Each course follows a carefully crafted educational path, ensuring consistent, practical improvement.
The first course in this series dives deep into one of the most essential yet misunderstood areas of chess: rook endgames.

We are thrilled to present Classical Spanish Middlegames, an essential course by GM Pier Luigi Basso and GM Baadur Jobava. This course serves as a bridge between their acclaimed 3-part series on the Spanish Game for White and the intricate middlegame positions that arise from the Ruy-Lopez.

The Bogo-Indian Defense has recently gained immense popularity at all levels, including top-level chess. It offers Black a solid yet flexible setup, leading to strategically rich positions. Every 1.d4 player must be well-prepared to handle this tricky system, which frequently transposes into positions from the Nimzo-Indian and Queen’s Indian.

As GM Dreev explains in his introduction, the 4.g3 approach is an ideal weapon against the Slav Defense. Unlike 4.Nc3, which requires extensive memorization, or 4.e3, which has become highly theoretical, 4.g3 allows White to enter flexible, well-structured positions that align seamlessly with our existing repertoire.

We are excited to present 100 Moves to 2700, a groundbreaking course by GM Alexey Dreev and GM Pier Luigi Basso, designed to cater to both competitive players and chess enthusiasts. Whether you want to challenge yourself with hands-on exercises or simply enjoy the rich database of annotated examples, this course offers something for everyone.

We are thrilled to announce the release of the final installment of the Caro-Kann According to Dreev series, authored by GM Alexey Dreev and GM Pier Luigi Basso. This course delves into the Classical Variation, providing a dual repertoire for Black against 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 dxe4 4.Nxe4.

We are thrilled to announce Caro-Kann According to Dreev – Part 2, the latest installment in the in-depth series by GM Alexey Dreev and GM Pier Luigi Basso. This course continues to provide a top-level repertoire for Black, focusing on all critical variations except 3.Nc3, which will be covered in the final Part 3.

Modern Chess is thrilled to announce an exciting new course by GM Baadur Jobava and GM Pier Luigi Basso: Jobava London Reversed – Top-Level Repertoire for Black. This unique course introduces a fresh and ambitious way to handle 1.Nf3 as Black, leveraging the principles of the Jobava London System in reverse.

We are proud to present the first installment of an exceptional three-part series on the Caro-Kann Defense, authored by Alexey Dreev and Pier Luigi Basso. This groundbreaking course, Caro-Kann According to Dreev - Part 1, provides a complete and detailed repertoire for Black against the Advance Variation, arising after 1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5. The remaining lines will be examined in the next two installments.