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New DVD An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player lectures 5 – 9 By IM Valeri Lilov

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An Opening Repertoire for the Attacking Player lectures 5 – 9

By IM Valeri Lilov

Recommended for Intermediate Players  More Info

In part 2 of the series IM Valeri Lilov examines a sharp repertoire for both black and white. A complete system you can employ in your own games! Valeri’s take on theory is both aggressive and based on sound strategic principle.  He examines White e 4 and one good line of play for all of Black’s possible responses with the Budapest Gambit. Also, how White can respond to the Budapest Gambit and how to respond to deviations on most of the various openings including with the Grand Prix attack.

Content: 1.45 hours of instruction and analysis in a series of 5 lectures.

Members of ChessLecture.com rated this series a 4.5 out of 5

Fans on Chesslecture.com said: Very instructive tips on how you play some interesting sidelines! I found it very entertaining and informative. Another 5 – nice job!

IM Valeri Lilov is a young chess talent from Bulgaria. In 2000 in Moscow, Russia, he became the European Individual School Chess Champion U10 with the record result of 6,5 out of 7. In 2005, he made a record in the history of Bulgarian chess by achieving 32 consecutive wins from national championships, which included two magnificent victories in simuls against the top Bulgarian grandmasters, Veselin Topalov and Kiril Georgiev. In 2008, he achieved his highest FIDE rating and in 2013, the title of International master. Valeri has been an internet chess coach for 7 years.

Five lectures professionally mastered by the publisher/ New in Box and just released!

 

New Chess Videos for April 14 – 18

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Monday, April 14   IM Valeri Lilov – Attacking a Weakness by Steinitz (strategy, middlegame) Exploiting a weakness has always been problematic for many chess players. While it’s not too challenging to spot a weakness (pawn, king, etc.), many players don’t know the correct approach to exploiting it.. The first world champion Wilhelm Steinitz was the one who first discovered the best way to exploit weaknesses in a positional manner.

Tuesday, April 15   GM Eugene Perelshteyn – Building up Positional Pluses to Outplay a Strong GM (middlegame, strategy) In this GM vs GM battle White builds up small positional pluses to get an open file. Domination on the open file results in winning a pawn, but things are not so simple as White still needs to demonstrate good technique to convert. Watch out for instructive king play in the endgame!

Wednesday, April 16  FM Dennis Monokroussos – Queen’s Gambit and Friends, Part 6: Handling the Minority Attack (opening, tactics) In our last video we saw how effective the minority attack could be. Could be – but isn’t always. Here we see Predrag Nikolic attempt to use it against Vladimir Kramnik, but the seemingly small differences between the position they reach when White went for the b2-b4 advance and what we saw in the Ruban-Panchenko game made all the difference in the world. In that game, Black suffered and lost a long game; this time, White was crushed pretty quickly. Master the differences and you can play either side of this plan!

Thursday, April 17   IM Bill Paschall – Aronian Gets Tactical (opening, tactics) Aronian goes back to the 90’s with the Modern Exchange variation against Svidler’s Grunfeld. Black goes into the pawn grab variation with Qxa2 but forgets that f7 can become weak ! We see a classic Bxf7 sacrifice after Svidler is baited into moving his f8 rook. The game could perhaps be salvaged by a computer but technically very difficult and Svidler succumbs.

Friday, April 18   GM Bryan Smith (middlegame, strategy)  – The Best of Lone Pine 1979, Part 4 In the fourth part of his series on the 1979 Lone Pine tournament, GM Bryan Smith looks at an important encounter from the seventh round, Larsen – Lein. In this game Bent Larsen manages to carry out a sparkling but rather unclear attack against Anatoly Lein’s Dragon.