Freshen up your repertoire against 1.e4 with these little-known ideas
Is it really possible to find fresh ideas for black after 1.e4 e5?
That’s a question International Master Piotr Nguyen and Grandmaster Lukasz Jarmula set out to answer.
They scoured books and pored over correspondence games for forgotten ideas - then used the latest engines to check those ideas for soundness.
And, during this research, they found
the Rio de Janeiro variation of the Ruy Lopez.
If you’ve never heard of this variation, you’re not alone.
The Rio de Janeiro is a forgotten variation of the Berlin. But, rather than leading to over-analyzed endgames - like the usual Berlin - the Rio can lead to
sharp positions full of sacrifices and tactics.
And, if White tries to dodge these complications and bail out into an endgame, you get an improved version of the Berlin endgame where you have the bishop pair, but you can still castle.
There’s more to this than just the Rio
The Rio de Janeiro is only part of this repertoire.
In the full course, Piotr and Lukasz give you a complete 1.e4 e5 repertoire.
In this FREE Short & Sweet, they can’t cover everything, but they do cover the Italian, the Scotch Four Knights and the King’s Gambit.
You’ll discover how to...
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Punish slow play in the Giuoco Piano by breaking open the center with d5 and e4.
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Shock Evans Gambit players with an almost unknown counter-sacrifice.
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Hand back the pawn in the King’s Gambit so YOU get the kingside attack, not White.
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Get dynamic equality against the Scotch Four Knights with this shocking “bishop to nowhere” move.
All this - and more - delivered in
just 23 core lines and 61 minutes of video-sync instruction.
