The Symmetrical English

Far from boring!

I’m still hard at work on my English course. In case you missed it, the whole Quickstarter is available for free as a pgn here. You can also train it for free on Chessbook by going to the premade repertoires and adding it when you create a new repertoire.

So far, we’ve tackled 1…e5 and 1…Nf6 (leading to the King’s Indian) in the opening updates. This week we’ll look at the Symmetrical English with 1…c5. Some people think symmetrical positions are dry, but in fact we can use our extra move to cause a lot of problems. There’s even one line where I play a move on move 3 that’s hardly ever been played before, but is fully engine approved!