For most of its history, the London System was the opening you reached for when you wanted a quiet life. Baadur Jobava changed the question. By slipping the knight to c3 before the bishop appears — 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 — he kept everything that made the London easy to learn and added what the classical version never had: a direct route to creating attacking chances. The early Nc3 unlocks the thematic Nb5 jump against the weak c7-square and clears the way for the Qd2–Bh6 plan against the fianchetto. That is the idea running through this repertoire from start to finish — the London, rebuilt as an attacking system.
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Sometimes a single move, played almost in passing by an elite grandmaster, contains more poison than a thousand pages of established theory. When GM Luis Supi watched GM Nodirbek Abdusattorov reach for 7.Be2 against the Sveshnikov Sicilian, his first reaction was disbelief. He knows this opening as well as anyone, yet here was a move he had never seriously considered — and the more he searched for a refutation, the clearer it became that there wasn't one. What looked like a casual sidestep turned out to be a genuine, and currently underrated, way to fight one of Black's most reliable defences.
Sequence: Supi vs the Sicilian »
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When IM Filip Pancevski took up the King's Indian Defence at age 12, he couldn't have imagined he'd still be wielding it more than two decades later—through database explosions, engine revolutions, and countless theoretical novelties. Yet here we are. The KID has survived every computational assault not because the positions are "objectively equal" (they often aren't), but because the resulting chaos favors the player who understands the ideas over the one who memorizes computer lines.
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GM Boris Avrukh presents a complete training course on one of chess's most overlooked positional skills — the deliberate transformation of pawn structures to gain an advantage. Built around 37 deeply annotated games and over 200 test positions across two complementary sections, the course teaches when to exchange pieces, when to commit to pawn breaks, and how to actively reshape the structure to suit your plans.
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GM Pier Luigi Basso presents a complete Black repertoire in the Scandinavian Defence with 3...Qa5 — the most active and ambitious queen retreat, supported by ...Nc6 and ...O-O-O. Across 14 chapters built on cutting-edge correspondence practice and 2024-2025 novelties, the course turns one of the most structurally certain Black openings into a practical scoring weapon.
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GM Baadur Jobava and GM Andrea Stella continue their King's Indian Defense series for Black with a complete repertoire against the Makogonov 5.h3 — the flexible system Carlsen, Caruana, and Giri reach for when they want to squeeze without overextending. Across 11 chapters, the course offers clear structural plans for every White setup, with several rare lines that take Black off the database by move eight.
Sequence: King's Indian Defense According to Jobava »
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GM Alvar Alonso presents a complete White repertoire against the Caro-Kann Advance, built around 4.c4 and the early c2-c3 lines rather than the heavily analysed mainlines. The repertoire steers play into familiar d4–e5 versus d5–e6 pawn structures, giving White a flexible weapon where structural understanding does most of the work and memorisation is reduced to a minimum.
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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 Vladimir Malakhov and GM Pier Luigi Basso present the fourth volume of Malakhov's Structures series — a complete strategic study of the Exchange Slav pawn structure from Capablanca's era to today. Across model games, typical endgames, and Basso's own practical experience, the course reveals how minimal asymmetries in this deceptively symmetrical structure become decisive at every level of play.
Sequence: Malakhov's Slav Defense »
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