Lifetime Repertoires: Sidelines and Flank Openings for Black - GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly
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Opening course for sidelines and flank openings for black by GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly
Includes video and PGN
Language: English
Lectures: 46
Total Running Time: 29 hours 22 minutes
From the course:
The Black Encyclopedia for “Refuting” Flank and Offbeat Openings?
Besides 1.e4 and 1.d4, the first player has 18 more ways to dupe you into playing their game. But you only need one tight-knit repertoire to shut down White’s tricks… blow the game wide open… and outfight them with superior piece play!
Hate it when you prepare against 1.e4 or 1.d4 for hours — only to face an oddball opening you didn’t even consider?
But worse than the wasted prep time…
You have no thematic plans nor principles to guide you. So every move feels like walking a tightrope!
If this situation sounds familiar, then enter Lifetime Repertoires: Sidelines & Flank Openings for Black. It’s the closest thing to a Black encyclopedia for beating all 18 of White’s flank and offbeat openings.
Grandmaster Surya Shekhar Ganguly built the repertoire around …Nf6 and …c5.
These flexible moves control key squares, and rule out transpositions to big main lines. Thanks to …cxd4.
This way, the game sticks to your prep — while the amount of must-study theory stays at a minimum.
Ganguly also set up the repertoire to virtually guarantee a dynamic open game. So you can hit White from different directions.
Either they must play d2-d4 or e2-e4 to avoid slipping into a bad position. Or you bust through the center yourself with …d7-d5 or …e7-e5 to…
Unleash the Energy of Your Pieces!
When it comes to winning with Black, you can hardly ask for a better coach than Ganguly.
5-time world champion Vishy Anand and other elite players count on Ganguly as their “anti-computer” analyst.
He’s carved a reputation for uncovering human-driven novelties and outsmarting the best chess machines… including a national defense supercomputer with 131,000 processors!
Here’s a sneak peek into his repertoire:
A 19th-century-style gambit that blunts the Reti (1.Nf3), then sends their pieces back to square one.
Knights on the 7th rank strengthen your space-grabbing pawns against the English (1.c4).
The #b3cowboys (1.b3) receive a dose of their dark-squared medicine as they endure a cramp.
And against the Bird (1.f4), Ganguly plays the breakthrough White is desperately trying to stop — dealing serious positional and psychological damage!
Ganguly meets rarer sidelines, like the Grob (1.g4), Orangutan (1.b4) and Dunst Opening (1.Nc3), in the same manner…
Fighting on an open board which favors your active pieces — while denying White of the slow, closed game they’re familiar with.
Best of all:
Ganguly lays down the “why” behind the moves the way only a World Champion’s second can.
Anticipates The Student’s Questions… And Answers Them!
Surya stresses the importance of understanding with words… More than a repertoire, this is an encyclopedia of ideas… He anticipates where students are likely to get confused and spends extra time to make sure we don’t. Amazing.
— SmithyQ
Over 29 hours of video and 157K words of instruction explain the plans for both sides…
Why certain setups and move-orders serve you better than others…
Plus “rules of thumb” for telling similar-looking positions apart…
So that you’re able to find the right move, even when White mixes things up.
Files:
Sidelines and Flank Openings for Black - GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly- 0.1) Introduction.mp4 (105.5 MB)
- 0.2) Quickstarter.mp4 (384.6 MB)
- 0.3) 1st Miscellaneous Moves - Overview.mp4 (67.6 MB)
- 1) 1st Knight Moves (except for 1.Nf3).mp4 (89.3 MB)
- 10) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 - Reversed grunfeld.mp4 (55.6 MB)
- 11) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 - 4.0-0 e5 5.e4 - (c3&d4 Plans).mp4 (145.9 MB)
- 12) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 - 4.0-0 e5 5.e4 - (d3 Plans).mp4 (142.0 MB)
- 13) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 - 4.0-0 e5 5.d3 - Reversed KID.mp4 (83.8 MB)
- 13.A) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 - Overview.mp4 (82.9 MB)
- 14) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 - 3rd Move Alternatives.mp4 (47.6 MB)
- 15) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d4.mp4 (86.9 MB)
- 16) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.g3.mp4 (73.0 MB)
- 17) Four Knights - 4.g3.mp4 (143.5 MB)
- 18) Four Knights - 4.e4-d3.mp4 (41.1 MB)
- 19) Four Knights - 4.e3 e5 5th Move Alternatives.mp4 (106.4 MB)
- 2) 1st Flank Pawn Moves.mp4 (81.4 MB)
- 20) Four Knights - 5.d4 e4 6.d5-Nd2-Ng5.mp4 (122.7 MB)
- 20.1) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 - Overview.mp4 (51.8 MB)
- 21) Four Knights - 5.d4 e4 6.Ne5.mp4 (131.5 MB)
- 22) 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 - 6th Move Alternatives.mp4 (132.4 MB)
- 23) 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 6.e4.mp4 (75.3 MB)
- 24) 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 6.A3 bc5 7th Move Alternatives.mp4 (48.3 MB)
- 25) 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 e6 6.A3 bc5 7.Nb3.mp4 (92.2 MB)
- 26) 5.Nxd4 e6 6.g3 Qb6 - 7th Move Alternatives.mp4 (50.3 MB)
- 27) 5.Nxd4 e6 6.g3 Qb6 7.Nb3.mp4 (95.3 MB)
- 28) 5.Nxd4 e6 6.g3 Qb6 7.Ndb5 Ne5 8.bg2.mp4 (109.8 MB)
- 29) 5.Nxd4 e6 6.g3 Qb6 7.Ndb5 Ne5 8.bf4.mp4 (131.0 MB)
- 29.A) 1.c4 c5 - Overview.mp4 (98.1 MB)
- 3) c, d, and f-Pawn Moves.mp4 (48.5 MB)
- 30) 1.c4 c5 - early deviations.mp4 (130.1 MB)
- 31) 1.c4 c5 - 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Nf3.mp4 (38.2 MB)
- 32) 1.c4 c5 - 5.bg2 Nc7 6th Move Alternatives.mp4 (123.7 MB)
- 33) 1.c4 c5 - 5.bg2 Nc7 6.d3.mp4 (77.6 MB)
- 34) 1.c4 c5 - 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.O-O e5 8th Move Alternatives.mp4 (155.0 MB)
- 35) 1.c4 c5 - 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.O-O e5 8.d3.mp4 (68.2 MB)
- 36) 1.c4 c5 - 6.Nf3 Nf6 7.A3.mp4 (143.4 MB)
- 37) colle System (From Previous course, No changes).mp4 (204.1 MB)
- 38) Model games.mp4 (626.2 MB)
- 4) 1.b4 & 1.g4.mp4 (103.0 MB)
- 4.A) 1.b3, 1.g3, 1.f4 And Hippo - Overview.mp4 (74.5 MB)
- 5) 1.b3.mp4 (167.2 MB)
- 6) 1.g3.mp4 (83.4 MB)
- 7) 1.f4.mp4 (170.1 MB)
- 8) Hippopotamus defense.mp4 (41.0 MB)
- 8.1) 1.Nf3 Nf6 Without 2.c4 - Overview.mp4 (73.3 MB)
- 9) 1.Nf3 Nf6 2Nd Move Alternatives.mp4 (39.7 MB)
- Sidelines and Flank Openings for Black - GM Surya Shekhar Ganguly.pgn (2.5 MB)
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