May 2023

What is included in our E4 aggression repertoire

E4 aggression is a complete repertoire unlike some of our future courses. This course is okay for beginners, intermediates and some advanced players. Basically, anyone who has a U2000 rating on chess.com. We will have a section on every major black defence, including annoying troll openings like the hippo or the bongcloud. One of our openings is a sideline in the 150-attack against the Modern Pirc, another will be a very aggressive system against the annoying e6/b6, CRUSHING the Caro-Kann with the advance variation, and a flexible weapon against the Sicilian, so what are our elite recommendations?

Our weapons

Against the lame 1… e5 we will be playing a slow, but aggressive line in the Italian.

Against the Sicilian, it’s time to introduce the Alapin Sicilian, seize the centre early and gain the initiative.

French? No problem, with the Classical variation, you’ll limit your opponent’s counter-play on your centre.

The annoying Caro-Kann, Advance with e5!

Pirc? Learn this aggressive system.

Modern Pirc? I50-attack them.

Scandinavian? Play into their prep and still crush them with the main line.

Levy’s e6/b6? Why allow anyone to get away with a subpar and offbeat opening?

Friends that troll you with the Polish? The Grob? The bongcloud? The Hippo? Destroy them.

You might be wondering how we came up with this repertoire, we find lines that score very well for the average player while taking in account master level games. This way we find aggressive openings that are practically very good and objectively maintaining white’s advantage of moving first. In this repertoire, there will be no objectively bad openings, let alone refuted openings. Our team has been researching little intricacies of these positions and have been analyzing them with opening books and computers. Our progress has been slow, but we plan to release a chapter on the 150 attack soon, and we are deeply analyzing the Advance Caro. Stay Tuned!

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What opening is better?

In our opinion, E4 is better than D4. E4 invites more open games and is very flexible. You learn more tactics and you have sharp positions that could never be found in D4 openings for example, the Najdorf Sicilian, is one of the most sharpest, double edged, and exciting opening known to humanity, it is a perfect playground to train tactics. The Queen’s gambit declined will never be able the match the sharpness of the Najdorf Sicilian. Openings like the Scotch create rich battlegrounds with imbalances. The Scotch opens up lines and aims to aggressively seize the centre away from black. Beginner and Intermediate players are able to think more creatively in open positions.

Why is E4 more “open” then D4

When you play E4 E5, the option of the D4 pawn break is a possibility, for example, the scotch and Danish openings. Whereas, in D4 D5 openings the E4 pawn break doesn’t really exist, unless you play the Blackmardiemer gambit, which isn’t the best opening. Same thing with D4 Nf6 openings, E4 is prevented by the knight on f6. In most D4 Nf6 openings like the Nimzo-Indian defense you are trying to play for E4, but whether you are able to is a different story. D4 tends to support very deep positional thinking, something that is for later. E4 however, rapidly creates open lines and is very sharp and tactical

My favourite thing about 1. e4

In E4 there is a good range of positions you can get. If you like manuevering you can try the Ruy Lopez. However my favourite thing about 1. e4 is… THE GAMBITS! After E4 aggression is completed, we’ll be working on the White and Black Gambits repertoire. With D4 there aren’t a lot of gambits. There is the Queen’s gambit, but it isn’t really a true gambit because White will often win the the pawn back fairly easily. A lot of the other D4 gambits aren’t really good or popular, so if you’re like me and you’re an aggressive player, you can play E4 aggression or the White Gambits repertoire. Also spoilers, we’ll be recommending the Smith-Morra Gambit against the Sicilian in our upcoming White Gambits repertoire. I love 1. e4

Let’s summarize

E4 in our opinion is better than D4 because it results in more open lines and is good to train your tactical vision. E4 gives you aggressive options and gives you dynamic attacks. You have multiple gambits in 1. E4 whereas you have almost no true gambits in D4 openings. So please play 1. e4!