What is IM Christof Sielecki Keep It Simple 1.d4 A Solid and Straightforward for Cheap?

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After the success of his award-winning book Keep it Simple 1.e4 International Master Christof Sielecki is back. His new repertoire based on 1.d4 has a similar profile: variations that are straightforward and easy to remember, and require little or no maintenance.

Sielecki has created a reliable set of opening lines for chess players of almost all levels. The major objective is to dominate Black from the opening, by simple means. You don’t need to sacrifice anything or memorize long tactical lines.

His main concept is for White to play 1.d4, 2.Nf3, 3.g3, 4.Bg2, 5.0-0 and in most cases 6.c4. Sielecki developed this repertoire while working with students who were looking for something that was easy to understand and easy to learn.

This new 1.d4 repertoire may be even easier to master than his 1.e4 recommendations, because it is such a coherent system. Sielecki always clearly explains the plans and counterplans and keeps you focussed on what the position requires. Ambitious players rated 1500 or higher will get great value out of studying this extremely accessible book.

Christof Sielecki is an International Master from Germany. He has been teaching and training chess for many years, and runs a popular YouTube channel called ChessExplained

“I like this particular repertoire very much as it’s one which could probably hold the reader in good stead for many years to come. His introductions, conclusions and textual explanations are instructive and ones that a human can readily appreciate, learn from and understand. As I think that I should keep my advice ‘simple’, then I would say ‘just get it’!” — Grandmaster Glenn Flear, Yearbook 134

“A worthy follow-up with the author achieving the near impossible in carving out a cohesive repertoire based on 1.d4 2.Nf3 and 3.g3 against all but a handful of Black replies. The most amazing magic trick is how the author makes the Slav and Queen’s Gambit Accepted disappear – namely by adopting the sequence 1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.g3. This reviewer gives two thumbs up for Keep It Simple- 1.d4. It is full of interesting variations and ideas for players rated 2200 on up who are looking for a positionally oriented repertoire that is not overly theoretical.” –International Master John Donaldson

“As promised, the repertoire is simple, but not so simple that it is not of practical value. IM Sielecki has taken great pains to research the material carefully and package it into a repertoire that is relatively consistent throughout.” — Carsten Hansen, American Chess Magazine

IM Christof Sielecki Keep It Simple 1.d4 A Solid and Straightforward Index:

📄 Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview.mp4 (330.11 MB)
📄 Chapter 10 Benoni Declined with g6.mp4 (622.83 MB)
📄 Chapter 11 Benoni Systems.mp4 (764.75 MB)
📄 Chapter 12 b5 approaches.mp4 (582.09 MB)
📄 Chapter 13 b6 approaches.mp4 (993.82 MB)
📄 Chapter 14 Dutch Defence.mp4 (1.04 GB)
📄 Chapter 15 Odds and Ends.mp4 (447.11 MB)
📄 Chapter 2 d4 d5 Rare and Tarrasch.mp4 (887.63 MB)
📄 Chapter 3 Reversed Grunfield.mp4 (1.16 GB)
📄 Chapter 4 The Catalan.mp4 (1.26 GB)
📄 Chapter 5 d5 Bd5 Setups.mp4 (712.08 MB)
📄 Chapter 6 d5 Bg4 Setups.mp4 (483.19 MB)
📄 Chapter 7 Grunfield Style Setups.mp4 (916.28 MB)
📄 Chapter 8 King’s Indian Setups.mp4 (927.00 MB)
📄 Chapter 9 Benoni Declined with e6 and c5.mp4 (896.15 MB)
📄 Keep It Simple 1.d4 A Solid and Straightforward Chess Opening Repertoire for White 2019-TLS.pdf (22.17 MB)
📄 Keep It Simple 1.d4 A Solid and Straightforward Chess Opening Repertoire for White 2019-TLS.pgn (79.47 KB)
📄 Keep It Simple 1.d4 A Solid and Straightforward Chess Opening Repertoire for White 2019.jpg (54.44 KB)

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