There is a moment, familiar to every 1.e4 player, when the opponent refuses to follow the expected script. Instead of conceding the center, Black strikes immediately with 1…d5 — and after 2.exd5 Qxd5, places the queen on a5: not passive, not exposed, but strategically active from afar. This is the Scandinavian with 3…Qa5, and it is precisely this queen placement that defines the opening's character. Its main practitioner at the elite level is Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, who has built a complete weapon around it against the world's best.
Sequence: Strategic Scandinavian Defense »
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The workshop of GM Papaioannou - Understand the Scandinavian is already a digital product.
This product includes all the videos from the workshop as well as the PGN file related to the training sessions. Overall, the material consists of approximately 6 hours of video and a PGN database which includes 105 files!
Sequence: Strategic Scandinavian Defense »
6h 31m PGN Available