Championship's bundle: Queen's pawn

🏆Magnus’s 1.d4 Opening Bundle
from the 2021 World Chess Championship Match🏆

Magnus Carlsen put on a show during the 2021 World Championships Match in Dubai against Ian Nepomniachtchi. The 7.5-3.5 final score made it look easy for the Champ, but it wasn’t at all.

Remember that Nepo came to the match in the best moment of his career and showed a whopping 4-1 favorable score against Magnus for life. Indeed, many considered his chances no worse.

So how did Magnus put himself in a position where he could capitalize on his opponent’s mistakes for good?

Playing straightforward openings that don’t let his opponent off the hook

In the closed openings of the match, Magnus tried the Catalan with White, with a draw in game two and a historical victory in game six (probably the most exciting game in recent World Championship Matches).

With Black, he answered Nepo’s English with 1...e6 and won game 9 (even though White’s options looked promising!).

Those are nuanced openings, but they are not exclusively reserved for World Championship level games!

No matter your place in the chess food chain, you too can...

Learn to milk these positions,
And reap the benefits the big guys see in them

As a matter of fact, you can start today!

We are offering you the mother courses behind Magnus’s opening choices in this bundle:

Lifetime Repertoires: The Catalan by GM Srinath Narayanan, and
Lifetime Repertoires: Queen’s Gambit Declined by GM Alex Colovic

With these two, you guarantee principled, sound, and theoretically solid positions to start a slow but sure assault on your opponents.

And not only are they the blueprints of the Champ’s opening plan for the match, but they are also some of the highest-rated courses on Chessable!

So, if you want to:

🏆 Dictate the events from the get-go
🏆 Cramp your opponent’s development
🏆 Make their queenside pawns chronically weak
🏆 Bring your entire army into activity in exchange for some material
🏆 And keep the tension at a maximum

Like Magnus did...