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Six more for White, and two traps you won’t fall into.
The opening trainer has the Ponziani, Bird’s Opening, the Nimzo-Larsen and the Grand Prix now, plus calm, tested answers to the Stafford and the Englund: the two gambits everyone’s seen in a trap video.
The short version
- The Ponziani, Bird’s Opening, the Nimzo-Larsen and the Grand Prix, for White
- Answers to the Stafford and the Englund: take the pawn, skip the trap
- The traps worth knowing, as lines you drill and notes that say what to avoid
- Forty-one new lines, every move you learn checked by the engine
The opening trainer has six new courses, all for White. Four are openings to play: the Ponziani, a pawn to c3 on move three with a few traps for anyone who thinks it’s harmless; Bird’s Opening, where the f-pawn goes first; the Nimzo-Larsen, 1.b3 and a bishop that stares down the board all night; and the Grand Prix Attack, f4 against the Sicilian and none of the Open Sicilian’s homework.
The other two are for the gambits you meet online at midnight. Facing the Stafford Gambit and Facing the Englund Gambit show you the calm way through: take the pawn, develop, and know exactly which natural-looking move walks into the trap. The notes name each one (6.Bg5 against the Stafford, 6.Bc3 against the Englund) and say why it fails, so the trick springs on nobody.
That’s forty-one new lines, five to seven a course, with a note on every move you make. Every one of those moves was checked by the engine, and every note was read the way a club coach would read it, then checked again on the board. Search the shelf for “ponziani”, “stafford” or “englund”, or tap the new 1.f4 and 1.b3 pills, and your first line is a few minutes away.