Keep It Simple: 1.e4 2.0 - IM Christof Sielecki

Opening e4 course by IM Christof Sielecki
Includes book, video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 43
Total Running Time: 49 hours

From the course:


Same Simple Approach Powerful New Openings

Skip the endless memorization. Skip the crazy theoretical lines that may never actually appear in your games. Keep it simple with robust, practical lines you can play against any defense for the win.

That’s the award-winning formula International Master Christof Sielecki is bringing back in this installment of his popular Keep It Simple series.

This time, he’s going back to the king’s pawn opening, recommending completely different lines than his original Keep It Simple: 1.e4 - giving you a complete White repertoire in less than 400 trainable lines.

More Fight, Less Memorization

And while his original 1.e4 repertoire was super solid, this one offers a rich, dynamic alternative that offers even more fight while keeping true to the Keep It Simple philosophy.

So what’s different? Here’s a peek inside:

♚ Pull out the power against 1…e5 with the Ruy Lopez. ‘Keep It Simple’ does not mean pulling punches! So you’ll learn the simple way to exert the toughest opening pressure against 1…e5 - while keeping play lively in the drawish Berlin Defense and avoid the theory-heavy Marshall Attack

♚ Take Black’s tactics out of the Sicilian. With the Rossolimo and Moscow variations with an early Bb5, you’ll disrupt Black’s usual tricks and set up a dominating center…or an endgame Black will hate you for

♚ Put the French Defense to the test with the Tarrasch Variation (3.Nd2). Squeeze Black in the center, start up the kingside attack early, and watch them sweat!

♚ Leave Black with a “no plan Caro-Kann”. With the Exchange Variation, you’ll all but guarantee active play for your pieces… while Black shuffles around looking for a strategy

♚ And much more. If it’s played with any frequency at all after 1.e4, it’s covered! That means Scandinavian (1…d5), Pirc (1…d6), Modern (1…g6), Alekhine Defense (1…Nf6) and all those annoying pet sidelines.

Simple, without Cutting Corners

And just because it’s a complete repertoire in less than half the size of your typical opening course, that doesn’t mean you’re copping out on your opening prep. Far from it!

Though less than 400 trainable lines, this courses comes with over 200,000 words of explanation and 50+ hours of video. Meaning you can stop at just the core variations, or dive deeper depending on your desire and study time. But rest assured, IM Sielecki's thorough explanations will prepare you for the middlegame with compelling plans and promising setups. So even if your opponent deviates from the lines you know, you can play on with confidence.

This approach is the very same that won IM Sielecki the 2021 Chessable Course of the Year Award for his course Keep It Simple for Black. And at this point, he’s got it down to a science - as you’ll see in full display in the course.