My First Chess Opening Repertoire for Black

Every chess player needs to decide which openings he or she is going to play. But where do you start?

The risk of drowning in the turbulent sea of chess opening theory is only too real for beginning amateurs. Often your goals and ambitions will be misguided.

If you are trying to win in 20 moves, copy what's in fashion among top-GMs or memorize variations, you are wasting your time.

Most likely you will never get to play your 'preparation' and end up aimlessly switching from one opening to the other.

Learn the super-cool Icelandic Gambit

After the success of his volume for White, experienced French chess trainer we can now provide Vincent Moret's complete, ready-to-go chess opening repertoire for Black.

It consists of a sound set of lines that do not outdate rapidly, do not require memorization and are easy to digest for beginners and post-beginners.

Lines to master include:

- The spicy Icelandic Gambit
- The Portuguese Variation of the Scandi
- The Albin Counter-Gambit
- The Stonewall
- The English and the Réti

To show the typical plans and the underlying ideas in the various lines of his repertoire, Moret not only selected games of Grandmasters. He also uses games of young, improving players to highlight the errors they tend to make.

Vincent Moret (1968) has been teaching chess and training talented youngsters for more than 20 years. Many of his pupils have won important prizes and some have become Masters and Grandmasters.