The Daring Center Game - Michael Gorny

Opening course on the Center Game by Michael Gorny
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 17
Total Running Time: 18 hours 17 minutes

From the course:

Expert Revitalizes Forgotten Opening, Skyrockets Win Rate To 63%. Now Make It YOUR OWN!

The Daring Center Game plants the game firmly within your comfort zone… then overwhelms the competition with simple yet wickedly effective attacking plans.

It’s a repertoire by Michael Gorny. He’s an equity analyst turned expert opening theoretician. He helped International Master Christof Sielecki build a punchy repertoire for Black.

And this time, inspired by the latter’s Keep It Simple series, Gorny revitalized a “secret weapon” from the 1800’s.

“Secret” because it appears in only 3 games out of 100. So the majority of your opponents would not have faced it, much less prepared for it. And it’s quite the weapon, too, because of its…

Intuitive And Razor-Sharp Attacking Plans

In The Daring Center Game, we won’t wait a moment longer to sharpen the game.

After 1.e4 e5, we bust open the central files with 2.d4!? and immediately steer the game to our home turf. Next, we centralize our queen after the natural 2…exd4 3.Qxd4 Nc6 4.Qe3.

Then, we’ll mobilize the rest of our queenside with Nc3, Bd2 and queenside castling. And from here, we’ll launch our kingside pawns against the black king.

Our plan is so simple, it almost seems primitive. Yet sophisticated grandmasters like Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniatchti, and Levon Aronian have played The Daring Center Game… and with great success.

Against lower rated opponents, it works like a charm!

With normal 1.e4 openings, Gorny won roughly 55% of the time. Nothing remarkable. Yet a simple switch to The Daring Center Game skyrocketed his win rate to 63%.

You too can achieve the same breakthrough… if you’d only listen to the rich analysis the author shares.

And it’s not like you’d take forever to complete the course.

Its 191 trainable variations are as lightweight as a 1.e4 e5 repertoire could get. Yet it’s still comprehensive enough to cover nearly every response to 2.d4 — including those rare second and third-move sidelines.

Plus, the Quickstarter chapter covers the essentials in 14 core variations. So that you can start playing the opening in the shortest time possible.

And finally, you’ll be given 20 hours of video where Gorny goes deeper into the plans and ideas hidden in the variations. This way, even if Black plays a brand new move, your strategic compass will show you the right direction.