Lifetime Repertoires – GM Sethuraman’s 1.e4 e5 MP4 + PGN

Turn 1…e5 into an aggressive, adrenaline fueled opening with Sethuraman

People who play 1.e4 want it all: central dominance, active pieces, and relentless attacking chances against your king.

Now, imagine when you take those wishes and turn them against the other player.

If the idea of this makes you laugh with excitement, then let Grandmaster S.P. Sethuraman show how you can do exactly that with 1…e5.

GM Sethuraman is one of the finest players to ever come out of India. In his youth he won the Asian U12 and World U16 Chess Championships . He also won many cutthroat invitational and open tournaments as a full-time professional.

All throughout his career, GM Sethuraman has relied on the classical 1…e5 to neutralize 1.e4. He’s happy to play the opening against all comers, even beating top-100 players like Pentala Harikrishna and Sanan Sjugirov with it.

So when he offered to create such a repertoire for us, we had to say, “YES!”

Two months and over 300 hours of analysis later, GM Sethuraman is now ready to teach you his “secrets” to winning with 1.e4 e5.

You can be certain: the responsibility of handling a repertoire that lasts a lifetime is one I take very seriously! – GM S.P. Sethuraman

Play 1.e4 e5 The Sethuraman Way

Lifetime Repertoires: Sethuraman’s 1.e4 e5 strikes the perfect balance between an elite-level repertoire and what the ambitious club player desires.
Its clear roads to equality give you a safety net in the opening (a must for 2600+ grandmasters), while its punchy middlegame positions let you mix things up and play for the win (a must for developing players).

In creating the repertoire, GM Sethuraman avoided heavily analyzed main lines in favor of less explored paths.

This decision led to brand new discoveries and refreshing takes on long-established lines of play. Many of which are covered in-depth for the first time. (The surprise alone can tip the game in your favor.)

But Lifetime Repertoires: Sethuraman’s 1.e4 e5 goes beyond breathtaking opening ideas. Inside the course, you also learn mind-blowing tactics, crafty defensive moves, and flawless piece maneuvers that can only improve your play.

Here’s what you’ll see:

👍🏼 Counter the Ruy Lopez, with a subtle twist on the 6th move, which gives you an iron grip on d4 and lets your pieces to spring into action.

👍🏼 Quickstarter Guide with 37 core lines that allows you to start playing 1.e4 e5 almost overnight.

👍🏼 How to deal with all of those annoying gambits the White player can throw at you such. Bust the Danish, Goring, King’s, and Vienna Gambits once and for all!

👍🏼 Plan-based strategies to shut down tricky but dubious sidelines, like the early queen swing with 2.Qh5, the Ponziani Opening, and the hazy Bongcloud.

👍🏼 Smashing novelties powered honed by GM Sethuraman intuition in combination with extensive use of super engine’s LeelaChessZero andStockfish 12’s latest neural network edition.

👍🏼 168 training positional puzzles that will help you remember the key ideas even better. These positions teach you the new plans and strategies, which the Indian grandmaster discovered in his analysis. So you can play 1.e4 e5 like an expert, even if the game strays away from theory.

Plus, a special segment with 19 deeply annotated model games, to see how grandmasters are able to build out pleasant positions into convincing victories