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My First Repertoire for Black

The companion to Vincent Moret’s popular White repertoire, this book does the same job for the other side of the board: a complete, ready-to-play set of Black openings for the player who wants something sound and understandable rather than a thicket of theory to memorise.

Against 1.e4 the recommendation is the Scandinavian — specifically the lively Portuguese Variation, with its early ...Bg4 and gambit ideas — chosen because it leads to clear, comfortable development and the same kinds of positions game after game. Against 1.d4 Moret gives the Stonewall, a solid "unbreachable fortress" set-up, and the book rounds out the repertoire with sensible answers to the English, the Réti, and the various irregular first moves.

The guiding principles are the same throughout the series: lines that don’t date quickly, don’t demand heavy memorisation, and are easy for an improving player to absorb. Every chapter is reinforced with exercises so you learn the typical plans and tactics, not just the move order.

Ideal for juniors and adult improvers assembling their first real Black repertoire — and a natural pairing with My First Repertoire for White.

This book presents a Black repertoire against the opening hit of the year – the London System, which arises after 1.d4 d5 2.Bf4. The author also covers various move orders with 2.Nf3 or 1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 c5. Kiril Georgiev analyses several different set-ups for Black, so the book would be of help to White players, too

When Axel Smith was chasing his final GM norm, he decided he needed a change in his White opening repertoire. ​​Instead of his usual approach of memorizing many concrete moves to try to force an advantage, he would focus on pawn structures and typical plans. The result was a repertoire based on a set-up with the moves d4, Nf3, c4 and e3. It helped Axel Smith to the GM title, and led to the creation of e3 Poison.

Practical Black Repertoire with d5, c6 Volume 1

This book is built on a clever, economical idea: combine the Slav and the Caro-Kann into a single ...d5/...c6 system, so that the same structures and plans serve you against almost everything White can open with. Learn one set of ideas and you are equipped against 1.d4, 1.c4, and 1.Nf3 alike.

The practical payoff is real. After 1.c4 Black can simply play 1...c6 without fearing 2.e4, and many of White’s most annoying tries — including London System lines — transpose into harmless, familiar Caro-Kann or Slav positions where Black already knows the plan. That overlap dramatically cuts the amount of theory you must carry.

Volume 1 covers the Slav complex in detail: the Exchange and main-line Slav, the various ...Bg4 and ...Bf5 set-ups, the Qb3 and g3 systems, and the sharp lines after 5.Bg5, all in the Chess Stars format of clear theory plus complete annotated games.

A solid, unified repertoire for club players and above who want a dependable, low-maintenance answer to the whole family of queen’s-pawn and flank openings, rather than memorising a separate defence for each.

A new collection of puzzles carefully selected by two experienced trainers.

A Practical Black Repertoire with Nf6, g6, d6 Volume 1

The great appeal of a universal system is economy: learn one harmonious set-up and play it against almost anything. Alexei Kornev builds exactly that for Black here — a repertoire founded on the flexible ...Nf6, ...g6, ...d6 structure (the King’s-Indian/Pirc/Modern family), where the same fianchettoed bishop on g7 and the same core plans recur whatever White does.

This first volume handles everything except the main King’s Indian battleground. Against 1.e4 it gives the Pirc Defence; against everything where White declines the big centre it supplies clear, unified answers — the English and Réti, the offbeat 1.f4, 1.b3 and 1.b4, and the whole Queen’s-Pawn family (the Trompowsky, London, Torre, and fianchetto systems). Because all of these are met with the same ...g6 scheme, the amount you must learn stays remarkably small.

In the Chess Stars house style, each chapter pairs a "Main Ideas" overview of the typical plans and structures with a detailed "Step by Step" theoretical section, so you can study to whatever depth suits you.

Volume 2 completes the system, covering the main King’s Indian Defence after 1.d4 and c4. Together they give Black one coherent, low-maintenance answer to the entire opening landscape — ideal for club players and above who would rather master one set-up deeply than juggle a different defence for every White move.

FIDE Master and coach Tigran Gyozalyan fills a gap in the chess literature with the first systematic exploration of the king’s role and capabilities in the opening and the middlegame

A collection of games in the Indian Defenses showing a catalog of typical mistakes, misunderstandings, mis-evaluations and how to exploit these: either through simple execution or brilliant chess tactics.

This book is going to help you to become better in the same-colored bishop endgames (SCBE). Being an adherent of Mark Dvoretsky’s method of coaching, author supports his idea about optimal way to study chess endgames. First, one needs to study the theory of a given type of endgame; secondly, a player needs to improve his or her practical skills with exercises.

The lines covered in this book, the Ruy Lopez Main Lines, arise (with a few exceptions for move order and such) after 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 0-0. Some of the lines are incredibly theoretical, but rather than burden you with a ton of theory in lines you will have limited chance of using in your own games, the emphasis is on the lines that are more likely to occur in your games. Those lines will be in chapters 3 and 4, the two longest chapters of the book. This book is by no means an all-encompassing theory work, which means that there is a lot of theory that is not discussed in the notes. This is of course intentional. The book is written to entertain and inspire. If you find some lines that you like, you are encouraged to dive deeper into those lines before using them in your own games.