Opening Mastery – Dominate with 1.d4 – GM Petrov

Opening Mastery – Dominate with 1.d4 – GM Petrov Chess Olympiad Coach GM Petrov Reveals… How to Build a Pro-Level Opening Repertoire after 1.d4 and Finally Become the Player You Meant to Be… Opening preparation takes up a huge chunk of our time. Not only you need to find the resources to trust, decide on the lines to study, pick the variations to play… You also invest time studying, playing practice games and keeping up with all the theory updates. What does it take to play 1.d4 on the club level and beyond? If you play the most popular 1.d4 lines, you need to know how to counter the King’s Indian, tackle the Dutch, survive the Slav, attack the Grunfeld, play the Benoni and bypass many dangerous offbeat lines… On top of that, you should be familiar with the London System, Pillsbury attack, Queen’s Gambit Declined and Accepted. And if you really want to be prepared don’t forget to review the rare lines and deviations! That’s a dozen books, months of preparation and a TON of trial and e