Opening Oddities - NM Bryan Tillis torrent

Opening course by NM Bryan Tillis
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 19
Total Running Time: 22 hours 33 minutes

From the course:

Turn the Tables on Offbeat Openings

Looking for simple, elegant solutions to those annoying pet openings you know are suspect?

Well, it’s time to settle the score against those dubious openings once and for all, and National Master Bryan Tillis is here to show you simple, creative, and crushingly effective ways to do it.

From playable but questionable openings like Bird’s Opening (1.f4) and the Nimzo-Larsen (1.b3) to the downright peculiar ones like the Grob (1.g4) and Sodium Attack (1.Na3), you’ll be covered against virtually every tricky first move in the game.

You’ll learn how to subdue the:

✔️Polish Opening/Orangutan (1.b4)
✔️Grob Opening (1.g4)
✔️Van Geet Opening (1.Nc3)
✔️Van't Kruijs 1.e3
✔️Bird’s Opening (1.f4)
✔️Nimzo-Larsen (1.b3)
✔️Saragossa Opening (1.c3)
✔️Wade Opening (1.a4)
✔️ Desperez Opening (1.h4)

And many more! You’ll even get recipes against more legitimate but always tricky openings like the English Opening and London System.

Smart Strategies for Success in Any Variation

To fight these opening oddities, you’ll focus on learning the key structures and squares of the openings so you can play soundly regardless of whatever outlandish move your opponent might throw at you.

Just as importantly, you’ll also come to understand transpositions so you can steer the game into a better variation for you - or understand where your opponent is trying to take the game and stop it.

For this, NM Tillis’ years of practical experience and coaching really prove their worth. His usage of “Memory Marker” moves to remember strategic setups is extremely handy, especially in dealing with these sometimes rare sidelines where rote memorization is not always practical.

The 22 hours of detailed strategic walkthroughs in the video course will bring these ideas home such that you’re never fumbling with what to do in a real game. And perhaps best of all, you’ll have plenty of alternative variations for different ways to handle the oddities depending on your preference. Whatever your choice, NM Tillis’ superb explanation of the key ideas will have you covered.