The Elegant English - Part 1 - GM Michael Roiz torrent

Opening course on the English by GM Michael Roiz
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 10
Total Running Time: 5 hours 48 minutes

From the course:

Zoom Up The Rating Ladder With Accurate Opening Play And Superior Strategic Decision-Making

The Elegant English doubles as a pro-level opening guide and a playbook of winning chess strategies — enabling you to climb the ranks faster.

It’s based on a highly instructive variation in the English Opening (1.c4). And with Grandmaster Michael Roiz shedding light on its diverse tactical ideas and positional themes, you’ll come out of the course stronger and more well-rounded.

Roiz is a two-time Israeli chess champion… a former world number 40 with a peak rating of 2680 FIDE… and an expert on the English Opening, too.

Nowadays, Roiz spends most of his time helping his students and other top 2600-grandmasters refine their openings.

In his first Chessable course, Roiz combines cutting-edge opening analysis with mini-masterclasses on strategy to help the practical player…

Maximize Rating And Skill Gains From Minimum Study Time

The entire course is dedicated to the Four Knights, King's Fianchetto system in the English Opening (1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.g3), whose close study can do wonders for your opening play.

Here are three reasons to take a deep dive into this variation:

🎩 If you play 1.c4, then you're all but guaranteed to reap the rewards of Roiz' analysis. That's because the Four Knights, King's Fianchetto is one of the most popular ways to play the English Opening. The moves leading up to 4.g3 are natural and easy to find — so players of all levels walk into the variation often.

🎩 It lowers your learning curve when building or expanding your opening repertoire as Black. The arising formation — with a c-pawn on the fourth rank, active knights, and a kingside fianchetto — is a mainstay in the Sicilian Dragon, Pirc, Benko Gambit, and other fighting defenses. So if you want to repurpose the tactics and strategies inside when playing Black, you can.

🎩 And… when you merge that same structure with White’s first-move advantage, securing positional plusses becomes easier while your attacks hit harder and faster.

But The Elegant English is more than just an exploration of a single opening variation.

Through his crystal-clear commentary and in-depth analysis — reaching 15 to 20 moves — Roiz explains how to snowball your promising start to an undeniable advantage in the middlegame and endgame.

You’ll discover:

🎩 How to cut off an enemy pawn from the rest of its crew — so you can pick it off at the most convenient time.

🎩 When to compromise your kingside structure in exchange for big-time positional gains on other parts of the board.

🎩 How to craft a harmonious, well-coordinated position by getting rid of your most passive piece.

🎩 The critical positions where you must part ways with your magnificent g2-bishop. PLUS, the standard plan to safeguard the squares it left behind.

🎩 Little tactics and one-move threats, which lead to long-term improvements in your position.

🎩 Aggressive pawn thrusts that shut the enemy bishop away from the action. It feels like you’re playing with an “extra piece.”

🎩 The “Transformers” Attack which reorganizes your bunker on the kingside into a mean attacking machine.

🎩 Pawn sacrifices which drag enemy pieces away from where they need to be… so you can invade their position without breaking a sweat.

🎩 How to stir up winning chances in a seemingly dead-even position, with equal material and a symmetrical pawn structure.

And many more.

Roiz also included a goldmine of 10 model games and 64 reference games, which laid the foundation for the course. So if you ever wonder how to play the positions at the end of the theoretical chapters, these examples from grandmasters will show you the right direction.

Simply put, The Elegant English is a masterclass on winning opening play and superior strategic decision-making.

And if you set aside 30 minutes to an hour everyday —watching the videos and replaying the variations — you can experience a noticeable improvement to your game in a matter of weeks.

Within your first seven days, you would’ve learned and reviewed the top 10% of the variations you’ll play — honing your feel for the tactics and strategies hidden in the positions.

By the second week, not only have you tested some of the lines in your games. You’ve won the majority of them, too, because of your superior understanding of the position.

By the fourth week, you’ve completed the entire course.