Courses included in Chess King Openings 10:

Typical mistakes in Openings
This chess course is designed to teach you how to play in the opening by exploring opening mistakes and their consequences. The training program covers various blunders in more than 40 different openings and contains over 1700 new teaching puzzles of varying difficulty, taken from real games in 2011-2020 year. All puzzles are guaranteed new, with no repetition with previous courses. Study chess opening and learn to see through traps in the opening, and set up your own!

Chess Opening Lab (ELO 1400-2000)
This is a great opening manual. It features a theoretical review of all the chess openings, which are illustrated by instructive games of the greatest chess players. This compact opening manual contains a detailed classification, which makes it useful to players of any level - beginners, intermediate and advanced players. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristics of key moves. The history of the variations' development is described, as well as their current status. The theoretic material is nicely illustrated by classic games with detailed annotations that demonstrate the principal ideas and plans of each variation for White and Black. There is also a special training section with more than 350 exercises of various difficulty on more than 40 openings.

Mate in 2 (Win in the Opening)
The best way to improve your game is to train yourself on your computer in solving problems from practical games. Learn to attack and win in the opening: a great number of puzzles will give you a fine chance to master every standard method of attacking the king in your chosen opening and help you to come out on top in your future games. This course is intended for club players and includes more than 900 new puzzles for mating in the openings. All the puzzles are taken from practical games in 2011-2020 years and arranged according to the names of openings. All puzzles are guaranteed new, with no repetition with previous courses.

Modern Chess Openings 1 - Open Games (1. e4 e5)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Openings 1 - Open Games (1.e4 e5) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 858 games/lectures in total. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Petroff defense, Scotch game, Ruy Lopez defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann defense, Sicilian defense, King Indian defense, Queen's Gambit. Also the program includes more than 305 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 2 - Semi-Open Games (1. e4)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening 2 - Semi-Open Games (1. e4) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 426 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following variations of Sicilian Defense: System 2. c3, Scheveningen, Rauser Attack, Chelyabinsk variation, the systems with e7-e5, Dragon variation, Najdorf variation, Paulsen system, Closed system (2. Nc3), Moscow variation (2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5), Rossolimo variation (2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5), etc. Also the program includes 232 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 3 - Sicilian Defense (1. e4 c5)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 3, Sicilian Defense course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 509 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following variations of Sicilian Defense: system 2.c3, Scheveningen, Rauser Attack, Chelyabinsk variation, the systems with e7-e5, Dragon variation, Najdorf variation, Paulsen system, Closed system (2.Nc3), Moscow variation (2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5), Rossolimo variation (2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5), etc. Also the program includes 401 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 4 - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 4, Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 266 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the main variations of King's Indian defense and Gruenfeld defense. Also the program includes 368 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 5 - Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6)
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 5, Semi-Closed Games (1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 294 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Nimzo- Indian defense, Queen’s Indian defense and Catalan opening. Each opening variation is supplied with evaluations and characteristic of the key moves. Also the program includes 301 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 6 - Closed Games (1. d4 d5)
This is a openning manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 6, Closed Games (1. d4 d5) course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 416 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: Queen’s gambit, Queen’s gambit accepted, Cambridge springs variation, Tarrasch defense, Slav defense. Also the program includes more than 202 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

Modern Chess Openings 7 - Other
This is an opening manual that contains a detailed classification. Modern Chess Opening, vol. 7 course is aimed at teaching a student much of the opening and middlegame methods and intricacies through a theoretical section which includes 258 games/lectures. Each of them illustrates typical plans and methods in the following openings: English defense, Dutch defense, Queen’s pawn opening (1.d4 Nf6 2. Nf3), Benko gambit, Modern Benoni defense, RFeti opening, King’s Indian opening, Old Indian defense, Trompovsky opening, 1.b3, Sokolskiy opening. Also the program includes 323 exercises for a user to solve, giving refutations of the wrong moves as well as numerous hints to help you find the correct answer.

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