Academy | Openings
Recommend Opening Repertoire for Intermediate Players
Grandmaster Avetik Grigoryan created a complete, very exciting, and aggressive chess opening repertoire for his ChessMood platform, known as WhiteMood and BlackMood.
With his permission, I created a simplified—but still highly useful—video course on this repertoire. You can check it out here:
A Simplified Chess Opening Repertoire (for White & Black)
In this course, I won’t cover nearly as many detailed variations as GM Grigoryan does—that’s reserved for ChessMood members—but I will show you the openings he recommends, introduce you to the strong plans he developed for them, and discuss the most likely variations you’ll face. This will give you more than enough to play these openings effectively at the intermediate level.
Opening Principles
Understanding opening principles can help you reach a playable middlegame position, even without any prior knowledge of opening theory.
ChessMood currently offers their course on opening principles for free, and you should study it, as it provides a solid foundation for understanding chess openings.
You can view it here:
ChessMood: Opening Principles – The fundamentals and beyond in detail by GM Avetik Grigoryan