Extra Module: Openings

Dvoretsky: "in our day, the study of many typical positions is CLOSELY linked with the study of openings."

The Opening Module is a 13-month training program
for HIGH performance.

This module offers you a complete preparation on opening theory with clear explanations for almost every move and clear explanations about the middlegames typical for these openings.
Check the ICS 1-year Program for Openings »

Why opening preparation

Nowadays, the importance of a good opening repertoire is essential for high performance. This is because no human being is able to know all strategies and tactics specific to all positions that may appear in a chess game. Very often, inaccuracy during the opening may lose the assets of the position leading to a flat or bad middlegame or to an unwanted endgame. For performance, players need to be exact and to know the plans for the middlegame and the particularities of the position, even from the first moves of the game. Only this way, one can know the positions for developing the pieces (knowing their future paths too) in order to get them ready for the battle to follow.

Chess is very vast so that one cannot learn everything, and very often, a chess game between equal opponents is won due to a better plan and very subtle moves which work only in an exact given position. One more example in this regard is the work that professional players do "at home" for the opening, trying to guide the game on a territory unknown by their opponent. A better cognition of the character and the essence of the resulted position offers an important advantage.

Openings Module - for 13 months

We start with the openings for WHITE and give 2 different repertoires, one with 1.d4 and one with 1.e4. You can choose whatever you want or both.
Then, we study 3 different openings for BLACK against 1.e4 and 3 openings against 1.d4. 1.c4 and 1.Nf3 are perfectly met by openings against 1.d4.
Black against 1.e4: French Defense, Sicilian Kalashnikov, and Scandinavian Defense.
Black against 1.d4: Semi-Slav Defense, Dutch Stonewall and Dutch Ilyin-Zhenevsky.

For your convenience, the lessons and games are presented in 3 common file formats: 1. PDF document (printable version); 2. Browser version (see directly in your browser), and 3. ChessBase file (you can download and use a free program).

Cost
The Opening Module monthly fee is 15 USD (last month is bonus).
This module is available only together with the Main Module.

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