Free opening courses
28 opening courses for White and Black, from the London System and Italian Game to the Najdorf and Grünfeld. Every move is explained, and all of it is free.
How the opening courses work
Each course teaches an opening in a few main variations. For every move you read why it is played, which other moves are good, and which tempting moves are mistakes and why. Each course also shows the traps of the opening: the ones you can set and the ones to avoid.
After a lesson you play the moves yourself in a drill. The lines you learn go into your review, which brings them back when you are about to forget them (spaced repetition). 30 line courses add many short lines per opening, a few new ones a day, and every named opening, more than 3,800 lines, has a lesson of its own.
All opening courses
- Anti-Sicilians for White · for White
- Catalan Opening · for White
- English Opening · for White
- Italian Game · for White
- King's Gambit · for White
- London System · for White
- Queen's Gambit · for White
- Ruy Lopez · for White
- Réti Opening and King's Indian Attack · for White
- Scotch Game · for White
- Vienna Game · for White
- 1.e4 e5 for Black · for Black
- Beating 1.d4 Sidelines · for Black
- Benoni and Benko Gambit · for Black
- Caro-Kann Defence · for Black
- Dutch Defence · for Black
- French Defence · for Black
- Grünfeld Defence · for Black
- King's Indian Defence · for Black
- Nimzo-Indian Defence · for Black
- Petroff Defence · for Black
- Pirc and Modern Defence · for Black
- Queen's Gambit Declined · for Black
- Scandinavian Defence · for Black
- Sicilian Dragon · for Black
- Sicilian Najdorf · for Black
- Slav Defence · for Black
- Two Knights Defence · for Black