After four months of studying the fundamental structures of the 1.Nf3 complex — Réti and Catalan-type formations, King's Indian and Grünfeld structures, English Opening positions with symmetrical setups, Hedgehog formations and Maróczy-type structures — we are now ready to translate that understanding into concrete theoretical preparation.
In this phase, theory is no longer kept light. We look at concrete move orders and specific variations, where precise theoretical knowledge is required. The bet the whole project has been making is cashed in here: with the typical ideas and structures already familiar, the theory is absorbed quickly rather than memorised painfully.
This first half of the theoretical part covers all Black setups involving the move ...d5.
The material is based on the camp of the same name and is now transformed into a complete digital product, including full video recordings of all lectures, a structured PGN file following the logic of the training sessions, and extensive theoretical analysis for deeper study.
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The Opening Builder – Réti for White: Fundamental Structures after 1.Nf3 c5 2.c4 is the fourth part of our six-month Réti project. It continues the work started in the first course on the structures after 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3, the second on 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3, and the third on 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3.
This part addresses what happens when Black meets our move order with the most independent try of all — 1...c5, steering the game into the English Opening complex. These are among the most flexible and strategically rich positions in modern chess: symmetrical setups, Hedgehog formations, and Maróczy-type structures, all of which are central to a 1.Nf3 repertoire and all of which reward deep structural understanding rather than concrete preparation.
The material is based on the camp of the same name and is now transformed into a complete digital product. It includes full video recordings of all lectures, a structured PGN file that follows the logic of the training sessions, and additional model games and theoretical examples for further study.
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Most openings ask White to commit the d-pawn early and then defend the theory that follows. The Reti is built on the opposite instinct. After 1.Nf3 and 2.c4, White leaves the center fluid, holds d4 in reserve, and lets Black declare his plan first. In The Reti According to Abasov – Part 2, GM Nijat Abasov builds a repertoire around 1...Nf6 — the move Black uses to keep his options open, ready to steer toward a King's Indian, a Grünfeld, a Queen's Indian, or a symmetrical English. Abasov's reply is to keep his own hand hidden just as long, and to answer each of those tries on his own terms.
Where Part 1 handled 1...d5, Part 2 answers 1...Nf6, and Abasov makes a deliberate choice here: not one universal system, but a reply shaped to each of Black's setups. In his own words, he wanted "a different approach to be more flexible." Against the Queen's Indian setup he declines the routine d4 structures for something sharper; against the symmetrical English he sidesteps the forcing 3.d4 and 3.Nc3, playing 3.g3 to press with his extra tempo; against the Grünfeld he keeps an Anti-Grünfeld type-of-position with d4 still unplayed. The effect is to keep Black in positions he meets far less often than the heavily analyzed main lines.
Sequence: Reti for White According to Abasov »
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When Richard Réti stopped occupying the center with pawns and chose instead to press on it from a distance, he was doing more than introducing a move order. He was refusing to play the game on his opponent's terms. A century later, that same instinct is what draws GM Nijat Abasov to the opening that still carries Réti's name.
Abasov is candid about why he plays it. In today's most worked main lines, entire systems and even gambits have been analyzed to a dead draw, and the player with White is too often the one walking into the latest prepared novelty. The Reti steps off that treadmill. Rather than matching memory against memory, White keeps the center fluid, lets Black declare first, and shapes the character of the game from the opening moves.
Sequence: Reti for White According to Abasov »
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The Réti is an opening of restraint. Rather than plant a pawn on the fourth rank, White fianchettoes the bishop, holds back d4, and pressures the center from a distance — hoping Black commits too early. Against that patience, genuine counterplay is hard to come by, and most of Black's ambitious tries invite exactly the kind of positional squeeze the setup is built to produce.
In The Dynamic Anti-Réti: 2...c5, GM Mahammad Muradli turns that philosophy around. After 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3, Black plays 2...c5, claiming space and taking control over the d4-square. Then comes the move that gives the repertoire its identity: 3.Bg2 f6!?, preparing ...e5 and a broad classical center before a single piece has left the back rank.
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The third part of our six-month Réti project, covering everything after 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3. A complete repertoire against the Grünfeld Defence and the King's Indian Defence, built on understanding pawn structures rather than memorizing variations.
Sequence: Fianchetto Pawn Structures »
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Most opening repertoires demand a choice: either you memorize hundreds of variations and keep up with monthly theoretical updates, or you accept simplified positions with minimal winning chances. GM Aydin Suleymanli's Double Fianchetto for White offers a third option—a flexible system built on 1.Nf3, 2.g3, and 3.b3 that handles King's Indian setups, Grünfeld-style ideas, and symmetrical structures within a single strategic framework.
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When GM Valery Kazakouski and GM Pier Luigi Basso sat down to prepare a repertoire against 1.Nf3 d5 2.g3, they didn't reach for the well-trodden paths. Instead of guiding Black through the analyzed-to-death 2...Nf6 or 2...Bf5 systems, they chose a different route entirely: 2...Nd7.
The move looks counterintuitive at first glance—the knight blocks the c8-bishop and stands on the queen's line. But the logic is concrete. Black prepares ...e5 immediately, and after 3.d4, the knight moves to the ideal b6-square, where it defends d5 and frees the bishop to develop to f5 without tactical concerns.
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The second part of our six-month Réti project, covering everything after 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3. A complete repertoire against the Queen's Gambit Declined, the Queen's Indian Defence, and the Hedgehog, built on understanding pawn structures rather than memorizing variations.
Sequence: Fianchetto Pawn Structures »
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GM Pier Luigi Basso has played the Slav with Black his entire career. He knows which White systems create genuine discomfort for a prepared Slav player—and which ones a Black player secretly welcomes. This course was shaped by that experience from the other side of the board.
The lines presented here are the ones Basso never enjoyed facing: the most venomous, practical systems against the Slav. This is what distinguishes the repertoire—it's not theoretical completeness for its own sake, but a curated selection of the positions that make strong Slav players uncomfortable.
Sequence: KIA According to Stella »
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