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Chess Openings - Complete Repertoire for Black
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Chess Openings - Complete Repertoire for Black

This Complete Course Will Teach You a Full Opening Repertoire as Black Against Any Starting Move That White Can Play.
Created byManuel Ocantos
Last updated 8/2025
English

What you'll learn

  • A Full Opening Repertoire When Playing as Black
  • How to Play Against Any of the 20 Different Possible Starting Moves That White Can Play on the First Move
  • How to Reply Against Both Common and Uncommon Lines by White in the First 10-15 Moves of the Game
  • How to Study Openings Efficiently and Use the Opening Ideas That We’ll Learn in More Than One Opening Variation

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Course content

7 sections • 70 lectures • 9h 27m total length

  • Introduction1:14
  • What You Need to Do the Course1:06

    Begin a complete opening repertoire for black by downloading games and variations, accessing analyzed positions and their solutions, and reviewing PDFs in the resources section in BGN and PDF formats.

  • Tips to Make the Most of Your Repertoire6:10

Requirements

  • Understand chess notation
  • Any device with access to the internet, such as a mobile or a laptop
  • No software required - all the material to do the course will be provided here

Description

Welcome to my Complete Opening Repertoire for Black course, the only course you need to learn to how to play as Black in the opening.

I’m Manuel, a top chess player from Luxembourg who has also spent several over 15 years in the online teaching world. I want to share my passion for the game of chess and teach everything that I learn, including one of main opening repertoires.

My course is designed to be interactive, as I’ll take you step-by-step through engaging video tutorials.

Statistically speaking, in the starting position White plays the move 1.e4 (King’s Pawn Opening) or 1.d4 (Queen’s Pawn Opening) in over 80% of the games.

That’s why we’ll create a very detailed and aggressive opening repertoire to meet these 2 openings, where we will not only aim to get a good position, but to fight for an advantage as well.

After our main repertoire is prepared, we’ll study all the other 18 possible moves that White has to start the game. The key will be to cover these options in a smart way, aiming to transpose into lines that we have already studied if White plays good moves. But we’ll also aim for an early opening advantage if White decides to play dubious moves.

This course includes practical activities in every section to make sure that you'll test your new knowledge. I’ll provide you with all the games and variations that I’ll analyze so that you can download them and keep them, both in PDF and PGN format.

Throughout this comprehensive course, we’ll study a lot of openings and variations, including:

  • The Sicilian Defense, Dragon Variation

  • The Sicilian Defense, Prins Variation

  • The Sicilian Defense, Hungarian Variation

  • The Sicilian Defense, Moscow Variation

  • The Sicilian Defense, Closed Variation

  • The Sicilian Defense, Alapin Variation

  • The King's Indian Defense

  • The Trompowsky Attack

  • The Torre Attack

  • The London System

  • The Colle System

  • The Zukertort Opening

  • The English Opening

  • The Benko Opening

  • The Larsen Attack

  • The Bird’s Opening

  • The Van Geet Opening

  • The Polish Opening

  • The Van’t Krujis Opening

  • Mieses Opening

This course is ideal for intermediate players, who want to bring their opening knowledge to a new level.

By the end of this course, you will improve both your overall openings skills, in addition to having a complete opening system to play as Black.

A Present to Make Your Life Easier

Studying openings and creating a full repertoire can be overwhelming. My main goal with my courses is to simplify your study. As a lifelong learner of this game, I know how having the right tools can save you not only months, but years of study.

All the lines and games that I cover in the course will be provided to you under each lesson. For your convenience, I’ll provide them in 2 different formats: PDF and PGN. PGN (Portable Game Notation) is a standard format for recording chess games supported by most chess software.

This way, you have more than one option to choose your preferred way to save and keep your lifetime repertoire.

Sign up today, and look forward to:

  • Video Lectures

  • Practical Activities

  • Downloads

  • Model Games Covered in the Course With Analysis Included

  • Instructor Q&A

  • Lifetime Access


Who this course is for:

  • Intermediate level players
  • Players who ruin their games as Black in the opening stage of the game
  • Players who have significantly bad results when playing as Black
  • Ambitious players who want to progress further

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