The Equalizer's Opening Repertoire

Seamlessly Navigate the Path to Equality and Beyond

While many players try to squeeze every advantage out of the opening by memorizing reams of theoretical lines, there’s a much simpler, and arguably more efficient opening strategy at arm’s reach:

Play simple, super-solid lines that avoid flashy opening overtures and go straight for an equal but strategically rich middlegame.

And that’s the premise of The Equalizer’s Opening Repertoire. Brought to you by Chessable user and expert class player JoyousCub, this extremely low-risk repertoire may not bring you any clear advantage out of the opening, but it will virtually never leave you worse if you follow it well. And it has the very practical benefit of letting your opponent fall flat on their face in their attempts to fight for an advantage!

With super-solid opening choices for White and Black, you’ll get a direct ticket to a nice, playable game where you cut out the opening nonsense and go for an interesting middlegame where both players have chances to fight - and the player with the better middlegame and endgame technique wins.

In this course, you’ll learn how to:

♜ Play a low-theory but high-possibility repertoire for White. Based on the simple yet amazingly effective London System, you’ll take the venom out of all Black’s defenses - including the annoying likes of the Englund Gambit and the Dutch Defense

♜ Achieve “world-class equality” against 1.e4 with the Petroff Defense. There’s a reason top player Fabiano Caruana employs the Petroff in his repertoire - it can shut down even Magnus Carlsen’s 1.e4!

♜ Tackle the solid 1.d4 with the equally solid Queen’s Gambit Declined. While plenty solid, this grandmaster go-to is full of interesting play

♜ Take your solid opening results and turn them into a strategically rich middlegame and endgame. With a chapter full of model games showing how to play the typical resulting middlegames of your repertoire, you’ll be confident in the opening and beyond

So if you’re looking for a utilitarian opening repertoire that will cut out a lot of the opening ‘tricks’ and go straight for a comfortable yet interesting middlegame, get the Equalizer’s Opening Repertoire.