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1.d4 According to Dreev - Fight the Queen's Gambit Accepted - Updated June 2026  Updated

Following the success of the 1.d4 According to Dreev series, GM Alexey Dreev and GM Pier Luigi Basso return with a powerful new chapter—Fight the Queen’s Gambit Accepted. This course provides a complete and ambitious repertoire for White after:
1.d4 d5 2.c4 dxc4 3.e4
This aggressive continuation challenges Black from the very first moves, setting the tone for dynamic and initiative-driven play. Unlike more reserved systems, 3.e4 seizes central space and creates immediate tactical and strategic dilemmas for the opponent.

Sequence:  1.d4 According to Dreev  »

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4 hours and 38 mins PGN Download Memory Booster Interactive Tests Video Content

The Bishop's Opening: A Complete and Practical Repertoire for White vs 1...e5 - Updated June 2026  PremiumUpdated

The Bishop's Opening occupies a peculiar space in chess theory — once dismissed as toothless, yet respected enough to appear in grandmaster practice whenever a player seeks something concrete beyond the endless preparation wars of 2.Nf3.
GM Mahammad Muradli's new course reframes the opening entirely: not as a quiet sideline, but as an aggressive system built around keeping f2-f4 available. By developing the bishop before the knight, White preserves maximum flexibility in the center and prepares to launch kingside attacks across multiple setups — echoes of the King's Gambit and Vienna Game, but with the light-squared bishop already developed and f7 under immediate pressure.

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Practical French for Black - Part 1 

At the top level, the French has drifted toward equality. The fashionable 7...cxd4 8.Nxd4 Qb6!? is now mapped so deeply that many games are decided before the middlegame begins.
GM Felix Blohberger builds his repertoire around a different idea — steering Black into lightly explored positions where both sides still have to play real chess. The emblem of that approach is a move you will rarely find in a database: 7...h6!?, preparing the disruptive ...g5 break.

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Caro-Kann Express for Black 

There is a familiar trade-off behind every solid opening: depth costs time. The Caro-Kann is famous for its reliability, but reaching top-level fluency in it has traditionally meant working through hundreds of pages of theory. Caro-Kann Express for Black is built on the opposite premise — that a complete, tournament-ready repertoire can be delivered without cutting the quality of the recommendations. This is not a lightweight repertoire built from scratch; it is drawn from a complete deep series and trimmed to the lines that actually decide tournament games.

Sequence:  Caro-Kann According to Dreev  »

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The Exchange Caro-Kann with 4.Bd3 for White 

For decades the Exchange Caro-Kann was filed under "harmless" — a line to sidestep theory and split the point. Then Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura began reaching for it at the very top, and the reassessment was immediate. Mahammad Muradli's new course, The Exchange Caro-Kann with 4.Bd3 for White, builds a full repertoire around exactly what those players saw in it.
The idea is a Carlsbad-type structure reached with an extra tempo, where White presses with the familiar attacking plans without the usual preparatory cost — and without ever diving into forced theory.

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Reti for White: Fundamental Structures after 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 

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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Queen's Indian for Black - Top-Level Repertoire  Premium

In 1931, Max Euwe and José Raúl Capablanca reached a position where Black had just sacrificed the exchange on a8. Capablanca, with the black pieces, stood better — and never realised it, repeating moves into a draw he should have been pressing to win.
Nearly a century later, that same position is the critical theoretical battleground of this repertoire. White's most testing engine moves still lead straight back to it, and Black is still playing for three results. That is the spirit of the whole course: principled, fighting, and built on lines that reward the player who understands them.

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Berlin Defense - Top-Level Repertoire for Black - Updated June 2026  Updated

The Berlin Defense is one of the most fascinating and historically rich openings in chess. Renowned for its solidity and the challenges White faces in finding new ideas, the Berlin Defense has become so effective that it has even caused many players to reconsider the traditional Ruy Lopez. In this course, Pier Luigi Basso aims to equip you with a reliable and rock-solid repertoire, but not one that simply settles for a draw—this course will show you how to play for a win!

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Dreev Deep Caro-Kann for Black - Solution against the Sidelines 

Ask an experienced Caro-Kann player where the half-points actually leak away, and the answer is almost never the main lines. It is the quiet second move nobody revised in a while — the Fantasy, the King's Indian Attack, an offbeat 2.Ne2 — where preparation thins out and a comfortable position quietly drifts into something worse.
Across a long career, few players have done more to give the Caro-Kann its modern standing than GM Alexey Dreev. In this final volume he turns that authority to exactly the parts of the opening most repertoires leave half-finished.

Sequence:  Caro-Kann According to Dreev  »

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Sicilian Arsenal for White  Arsenal

Löwenthal, O'Kelly, Nimzowitsch, Grivas and others — the Sicilian's minor roads are paved with the names of players who wanted no part of a theoretical main line. Each found a way to sidestep the Najdorf and the Sveshnikov and reach a position where preparation runs thin and the game is decided by understanding rather than memory. They are easy to underestimate, and that is exactly the problem: the half-points that slip away against a sideline you half-remember are the ones that quietly hold a rating in place. Sicilian Arsenal for White is the volume that answers all of them.

Sequence:  Jospem versus the Sicilian  »

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