Lifetime Repertoires: Nimzo-Ragozin

13+ hours of clear and precise video instruction presented by IM Christof Sielecki, aka ChessExplained

The Lifetime Repertoires series is a landmark in the history of Chessable. It is the most ambitious series we have undertaken.

In this, our ultimate Black repertoire, we have strived to create a complete opening system that will stand the test of time. It will never go out of fashion because it is always in fashion.

UPDATED FOR 2020: IM Sielecki and FM Barrish just added a new Quickstarter guide, with 54 variations. So you can start playing the Nimzo-Ragozin fast.

Lifetime Repertoires: The Nimzo-Ragozin is a living and breathing roadmap against 1.d4 and 1.Nf3 that is designed to be reliable, redoubtable and ever-resilient.

Lines that knit together seamlessly

At its heart is an up-to-the-minute examination of the Nimzo-Indian - considered the most challenging mainline response to 1.d4 for elite players which is 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4.

The Ragozin, the Nimzo's close friend, is presented alongside it to deal with 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4.

The increasingly-popular Catalan 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 is tackled alongside the London, Veresov, Trompowsky, Torre, Colle and all the deviations you need to be fully covered.

Every response covered

Finally, as an added bonus, the authors IM Christof Sielecki, aka ChessExplained, and FM Daniel Barrish tackle 1.Nf3 by forcing White into your familar realm.

These choices are carefully-chosen lines that knit together seamlessly.

The authors' aim was to produce a repertoire in which each of the recommendations compliments each other and the whole set together contains an internal logic that's easy to grasp quickly, but from which you can build on forever.

Our most ambitious series yet

As theory grows in The Nimzo-Ragozin, an opening being improved at the top level all the time, so can you.

It is designed to flow, giving the student an easy way of understanding it quickly and a lifetime of learning and improvement to look forward to.

These aren't lines that have been shot down at the top level, they are lines that are in use and will always be.

About the authors

IM Sielecki and FM Barrish are two of our most experienced Chessable authors who both know everything possible about creating repertoire for this platform.

Between them, they have amassed thousands of students.

IM Sielecki is better known as the YouTube streamer ChessExplained and created the award-winning Keep It Simple series. As one of the best online chess tutors available, he presents optional video-sync instruction available with this course.

FM Barrish is one of Chessable's most trusted authors who kicked off the Short & Sweet series and collaborated with IM John Bartholomew on Essential Theory: The London System.

The pair's new Lifetime Repertoires course is a true chess diamond. And like a diamond, it lasts forever.