Boris Avrukh is an Israel-born American Grandmaster. He became Grandmaster in 1997 at the age of 21. He has won World Under-12 Championship, the Israeli Chess Championship (twice) and participated in Chess Olympiads 6 times.
Boris is universally recognized as one of the foremost opening theoreticians of the modern era. He has trained some of the best players in the world like GM Radjabov, GM Kramnik, GM Caruana, GM Wesley So, and many more. He was also one of the team members assisting GM Boris Gelfand during the World Championship against GM Viswanathan Anand. Avrukh is widely considered to be the "God of Opening Preparations". He is the world-leading expert on 1.d4 and has authored some of the best chess books.
It's been asserted by some experts that Avrukh’s writings “elevated" chess books to a formerly unseen level.
Full comprehensive Breyer repertoire for Black against the main line of Ruy Lopez.
Black challenging repertoire against Alapin 1.e4 c5 2.c3 vs Sicilian.
Very aggressive response to straight Benoni move order.
Powerful fianchetto repertoire for Black vs London System. The examined variation mostly fits KID and Grunfeld players.
Black challenging repertoire against very popular London system.
Examination of seven different White 2nd moves deviating from 2. Nf3 .
"Pawns are the soul of the game. ...the way they are deployed decides the fate of the game." - Philidor
How do you make use of surprise to seize initiative?
Which one is better, the bishop or the knight?
When do we go in for an exchange sacrifice?
Favourite positional games of Grandmaster Boris Avrukh
How do we formulate our opening repertoire strategy?
Learn what Boris Avrukh teaches his elite students.
What's the latest in the world of chess openings?
Learn from GM Boris Avrukh's experiments with chess openings.
Two minor pieces or a rook and a pawn?
When do we go for material imbalance due to exchange sacrifice?
Playing with material imbalance, queen versus pieces.
Some interesting case studies of unusual material imbalance.
Closed pawn structure? Open sesame!
Interesting games of the Indian prodigies from Olympiad 2022.
Learn advanced calculation techniques.
Advanced calculation techniques.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Advanced calculation techniques with GM Avrukh.
Trading off for positional advantages in exchange for material disadvantage
Intermediate, Advanced
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