Opening guides
How to beat every major opening
Three practical plans, one line to play, and the pitfalls, for the 20 openings you'll meet most. Each comes with data from 15,000 recent games of the top 100 titled Lichess players.
- How to beat the Sicilian Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Caro-Kann Defense (as White)
- How to beat the French Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Scandinavian Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Alekhine Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Pirc & Modern Defense (as White)
- How to beat the King's Indian Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Queen's Gambit Declined (as White)
- How to beat the Slav Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Nimzo-Indian Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Dutch Defense (as White)
- How to beat the Benoni Defense (as White)
- How to beat the English Opening (as Black)
- How to beat the 1.Nf3 (Zukertort & Réti) (as Black)
- How to beat the London System & Queen's Pawn Game (as Black)
- How to beat the King's Indian Attack (as Black)
- How to beat the Italian Game (as Black)
- How to beat the Ruy Lopez (Spanish) (as Black)
- How to beat the Scotch Game (as Black)
- How to beat the Vienna Game & Gambit (as Black)
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