Beat the Petroff & Others

The Petroff has become incredibly trendy at the highest level.

It’s one of Fabiano Caruana’s main weapons against 1.e4, as well as being popular with Levon Aronian, Wesley So, and a whole raft of top Chinese players.

So what can White do?

Well, in this course, Chessforlife - one of Chessable’s community authors and an openings' expert for two Grandmasters - has the solution.

It’s cutting-edge analysis he produced by running Stockfish and LeelaZero on superfast cloud servers.

And the result?

Dozens of dazzling novelties, including a stunning queen sacrifice as well as numerous improvements over top-level games.

This course busts other Petroff courses

Chessforlife’s analysis also uncovered clear ways to get advantages against the lines recommended in the most popular Petroff books and courses.

These include:

• Playing the Petroff by GM Swapnil Dhopade
• Fight 1.e4 like Caruana by IM Christof Sielecki
• Opening Repertoire: The Petroff Defense by IM Cyrus Lakdawala
• And many others!

So the moment your opponent thinks you’re walking into his preparation, he’s walking into yours!

You get middlegame themes and typical tactics, too

The author doesn’t just give you the lines, he also gives you chapters on key middlegame themes, typical tactics, and annotated model games so you know exactly what to do when the opening stage is over.

Now, this would normally be enough for one course. But Chessforlife wasn’t content with tackling just the Petroff, he decided to go after a number of other second move options for Black...

Refutes the popular Stafford, Latvian, and Elephant gambits

We all know these gambits are unsound, but they claim a lot of victims.

However, they won’t get you, because in this course, you’ll discover…

How to safely get a winning advantage against the Latvian Gambit

How to disarm the Stafford Gambit - easily repel Black’s tricks and emerge a pawn up with a better position

And how to give Elephant Gambiteers a lesson they’ll never forget

His analysis also shows how to obtain a solid advantage against the 2...d6 Philidor and how to take down the hypermodern Nimzowitsch Defence 1...Nc6

Get started with just 12 key variations

As you can see, there’s a lot packed into this course. All-in-all, there are 132 trainable variations, 40 of which are marked as Important.

But to help you get going right away, there’s a Quickstarter Chapter with 12 key variations.

So why not get started today?