Category: For sale

Out of Nowhere, the Centre Game Appeared. From the Grave of Oblivion to the Heights of Popularity. Wasting Time in the Opening as a New Trend?

Published 01. 04. 2024
Naturally, club players—let alone top-level chess players—cannot ignore modern trends in the opening. This time, however, we will not focus on new ideas and variations, but rather on an attempt to revive an entire opening. The shifts of our times are reflected in chess, and so in our beloved game the saying has become true: „Everything new is just well-forgotten old.“ Today, a harmless opening—middlegame is basking in the limelight of popularity: 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.Qxd4. How should one fight against it and still strive for more than equality with Black? Why, with the Classic with a capital ‚C‘… Continue reading

Beat the French Defence with the Reborn Milner Barry Gambit!

Published 11. 02. 2024
I have included the following contribution on the website as a kind of teaser, an advertisement both for a new system that appeared on the scene a few years ago as a weapon against the third most popular response to 1.e4, and as a taster of the extensive database that readers can purchase from the author after studying or simply reading the article. And do you know how the Milner Barry Gambit actually arises? Why and how did it literally worm its way into the favour of even the world’s elite grandmasters? Why does it attract such considerable attention?... Continue reading

Cozio Defence

Published 28. 09. 2023
Or rather, the Cozio-Steinitz Defence of the Ruy Lopez arises after the moves 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nge7. The following contribution serves as a taster for the ‚Black‘ database, which you can order and purchase in the Services section on Jan Bílek's Chess School website. Continue reading