If you’re looking for a fresh new weapon for Black against 1.d4, this FREE course is for you.
It’s based on the little-known
Janowski variation of the Queen’s Gambit. That’s when Black plays the move 3...a6.
That move might seem strange - and it’ll certainly throw most of your opponents off balance - but it’s perfectly sound and has been played a number of times by Magnus Carlsen.
So what’s the point behind this strange little move?
One point is that, after 3...a6, Black is now threatening to grab the pawn on c4… and then support that extra pawn with ...b5.
So you’ll see opponent after opponent sleepwalk their way into positions like these:
And the threat of ...Nc2+ gives Black a winning position.
You’ll find all sorts of lines like this in this free Short & Sweet course.
But you’ll also find lines where White plays correctly and you’ll see that Black still gets equality and active counterplay.
And that’s what makes the Janowski variation such a great opening for club players: you challenge your opponent to dodge a whole bunch of banana skins.
And, if he succeeds, all he gets is an equal position where both players can play for the win.
So it’s hardly surprising that this course’s author - Grandmaster Max Warmerdam - has had so much success with this opening. At the time of writing this,
Max has played the Janowski variation 10 times, scoring an unbeaten 8/10.Learn the Janowski in just 20 variations
If the Janowski sounds like your idea of fun, then here’s your opportunity to learn about it for free.
Max has created this short course to get you started.
So in
about an hour of video, and just 20 trainable variations, you can start racking up the points against 1.d4.
