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Welcome to my Chess Opening Course of the Rapport-Jobava London System! The Rapport-Jobava London System is a infallible opening which is moderately low and theory and quite easy to play. This Opening system is very flexible. Bf4 Nc3 Targets are on the queenside. This Opening System meets both aggressive and positional player's desire and objective. Either tamed or bewildered the choice is up to you!

The Caro–Kann Defence is a chess opening characterised by the moves: 1. e4 c6 The Caro–Kann is a common defence against the King's Pawn Opening and is classified as a "Semi-Open Game" like the Sicilian Defence and French Defence, although it is thought to be more solid and less dynamic than either of those openings. It often leads to good endgames for Black, who has the better pawn structure. The Caro–Kann allows Black to circumvent enormous bodies of theory of various responses to 1.e4 such as the Ruy Lopez and the Sicilian Defence. Unlike its sister opening, the French Defence, the Caro–Kann allows Black to develop their light-squared bishop, although at the cost of a tempo because Black has to play 1.c6 before pushing the pawn to c5, whereas in the French defence Black can push c5 in one move. The drawbacks of the Caro–Kann are that white can combat it in several different ways, often gaining a space advantage and black has less mobility and a lag in development. In present-day

One of the main ideas of this opening is to strike pawn to b5 and fianchetto black's light-squared bishop on b7, with e6 and Nf6. This study will be mainly game theory using various databases such as ChessBase and Lichess. The structures that come out of these positions are similar to the Taimanov, Kan, and occasionally (after 3.c3) the Alapin. This opening is easy to learn and very universal. Without further ado, enjoy this join publication between @TheForkPower and @ShreksGonGiveItToYa . Author's forword of ShreksGonGiveItToYa I'll add one more thing that needs to be addressed in the introduction. (Need to explain the Sicilian O'Kelly pardon me) Nf3 a6 this is a pretty rare remove for black and fortunately a little bit about it because I play this as black as well as a surprise weapon. This move a6, might look unsound but it does bycott heavy theoretical lines and also black gets a comfortable and flexible counterplay either on the queenside or the center.

This is the Fantasy variation of the Caro Kann, the f file would be opened for white once he castles (That's as if black takes the pawn) White gets enough counterplay on the kingside and thereby this aggressive response is good for aggressive players! White bolsters his f3-pawn and hopes to obtain a full pawn centre should Black take at e4. It has been used by Alexander Morozevich, the second-highest ranked player in the world (July 2008), with success. It can lead to original positions or transpose into a mainline French Defence with the moves: 3...e6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. f4 c5.

A rarely seen and somewhat illogical move, because the light squared bishop can already develop easily. White can fianchetto the bishop, but it is not always ideally placed here, and if he moves it along the f1-a6 diagonal, then the g2 and h3 squares easily become weak due to the compromised pawn structure.

A brief introduction of this course, heres a story of me having a hard time dealing with d4. Whether its the "Classical Repertoire" of the Queen's Gambit, London System, Catalan Opening and etc. Dealing with sideline opening such as the Colle System, Trompowsky, or the Torre Attack was quite simple and easy to deal with. But other openings such as what was previously mentioned "Queen's Gambit" and so on. Not so much. I decided to settle for the Grunfeld - Slav Defence. More of a double trouble I guess. You see with the Grunfeld, I was inspired to use this instead of the typical "Horwitz Defence" because of my opening "London Buckingham System" that starts with d4 d5 Bf4 Nf6 and there goes g4!? I had tremendous amount of success in the "London Buckingham System" But coming from the black side it was difficult to have the same mentality. The Horwitz Defence usually makes my face frown. I wanted to try something different so I decided to settle for the Grunfeld!

This is the main line of the Caro–Kann. It is a semi-open game that tends to contain lines with minor piece play. Note that after 3. Bd3?!, 3... dxe4 4. Bxe4 Nf6 gives Black the initiative.

As a Caro Kann Player and an e4 player, I often frowned upon the French Defence and it isn't something of a good defence to meet the move e4. Why is that?Well my first reason is that the French Defence blockades the LSB (Light Square Bishop) which turns it into a horrible and passive bishop. Second reason is that black often has a weakness around his central pawn. A permanent weakness in which would ultimately may cause Black's downfall in the upcoming future. That is the e pawn. In most positions the e pawn often serves as a backward pawn in which would serve as a permanent weakness around Black's position. Third of all the French Defence gives white a spacious advantage with the advanced variation of the French Defence. White often gets an overextend central control in which may cause black challenges alongside White's attack on the kingside.Forth the French Defence's kingside is often attacked by White's But either ways I made amends. Thanks to Simon Kim Williams!

the St George Defence is one if the most odd and unorthodox but sound opening. First of all black plays the move a6!? In which does not really look like much. It seems like black wasted a tempo and has given white an opportunity to have a very comfortable center. But on behalf of my surprised understanding the St George Defence is actually a very good opening defence against e4. Why is the St George Defence a good opening defence against e4? Well first of all black gets a very strong counter play on the queenside with b5! After e6 and d5. Second of all white does not really have a good response other than just simply taking over the center and manage it. Third of all this move usually just transposes to the French Defence with major exceptions for other lines in which white does not correspond. fourth of all white is going to have a little psychological disadvantage after taking a look at this move a6?! It even works with d4 and c4 in which would be partly covered in this course. Let's

Why is this course called the "New Amsterdam"? Well... To answer that question... We would stick with out classical Dutch rather than the Stonewall or Leningrad. We would modernize old ideas and make amends. New Amsterdam used to be "New York" Its where Netherlands settled. Today New Amsterdam is very different from what it used to be. But here we would stick to our old and classical Dutch with various changes (Necessary) to keep things balanced. Stick to our oldies but goldies!