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.
Recording of 52 week course taken by GM Boris Avrukh
Black challenging repertoire against Alapin 1.e4 c5 2.c3 vs Sicilian.
Very aggressive response to straight Benoni move order.
Full comprehensive Breyer repertoire for Black against the main line of Ruy Lopez.
Black challenging repertoire against very popular London system.
Powerful fianchetto repertoire for Black vs London System. The examined variation mostly fits KID and Grunfeld players.
Examination of seven different White 2nd moves deviating from 2. Nf3 .
Control the tempo and style of the game!
Tension can be good.
Want to win? Learn defense.
When do you let go of your queen?
Is position everything? Does material advantage count?
How do we maximise our bishop pair advantage?
How best do we counter the bishop pair advantage?
"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.
Intermediate, Advanced
Trainees interested in Openings, 1.d4
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