But this is about top players. What should less experienced players do? Of course the importance of openings knowledge is not so huge there. Even getting a winning position from the opening does not mean victory. That's why I'm strongly convinced that players up to the 2400-2500 level should not sacrifice all their chess time solely on the study of openings. Books by Nimzovich, Dvoretsky, Aagard, Alekhine and many others could be (and should be) studied. As well, mastership of analysis is a good key for long-lasting REAL improvement.

But this does not mean that you should forget about openings training absolutely. I offer to spend less time on openings in order to invest saved time in the real chess improvement. Giving my online and offline lessons I have seen that problem of building up an opening repertoire is both important and challenging. A lot of players can not use ChessBase and Rybka properly. Openings books they buy include a lot of material and to define what important and what not is a problem since its resolving requires an experience or somebody's advice.

That's why I started to help my students creating files for them in the openings they were interested in more of all. I do not claim that these files will resolve their opening repetoire deficiencies. But they provide a basis of introductory study. As well, unlike internet videos, you can save my files (in cbv or pgn format) and use them whenever you need to without any problems.

What do my files include? I include main lines and references to important games. Of course I provide this material with explanations where required. I do not overload the files with superfluous material. Whenever you are needed to prepare a concrete line for a concrete game you can just look at the appropriate file and get the required foundation.

My files are very convenient. You can both watch them on computer screen and print out pgn file and look variations on the board. As well, whenever you see some good game played in already existing line, you can just add it to that file. Also you can add there your games played by these variations.

The level of player I try to help is the 1500 to 2400 range. Of course, files will be useful not equally for them but I am sure they will be! As well, I offer an email-support for lines that test my analysis. If you downloaded the file and you have some questions about some position or whatever – just send me an email and I will help you.

Prices for the files varies since it took a different amount of time to prepare them. But general price politics is such that it should not be a problem for you to obtain material you are looking for if I have it.

I hope these files will help you to get what you were looking for and to save you a lot of time for trainings in other fields.

I am going to continue my work on the openings files. So, come back here and look for what you need!