Lifetime Repertoires Surya’s 1.e4 – Part 1 + PGN Dec 29, 2025

Outsmart Even The Deepest Sicilian Engine
Prep With Surya’s “Logic-Buster” 1.e4

Always on the backfoot and under-prepared against the Sicilian? With Surya Ganguly’s logic-busting repertoire, you see through Black’s plans early. Then you play an unexpected move which seems to let them have their way… until you start hitting them from different directions. You go beyond “stopping threats.” You break the thinking behind them!

Take this position from one of the strongest branches of the Sicilian.

What’s Black’s logic?

In this key position, you’re ready to castle
queenside and attack the kingside, but…

Your position screams for castling queenside and a pawn storm. Black throws in …h7-h5 stopping your g4-push.

So you slide your bishop to e2 and castle kingside instead.

Black stopped our pawn storm but
gave us a piece-based attack!

No “but my g4-push!?” tantrums, because then comes the point — pawn to f4. You’re still crashing through the kingside, while hitting the h5-pawn Black kindly lined up for you.

Thanks to Black’s …h7-h5, you get a kingside
attack without opposite-side castling… and
without allowing counterplay

See through the logic behind Black’s move, so you can break the way they think about the position.

This is your winning formula in Lifetime Repertoires: Surya’s 1.e4 – Part 1. It’s a complete guide for White against the Sicilian by Surya Shekhar Ganguly.

He’s a Grandmaster with a peak rating of 2676 — and a stacked resume!

He took home over 40 gold medals and 1st place finishes from tournaments around the world.

Surya also helped legend Viswanathan Anand win 3 World Chess Championship matches. In one match, he even out-prepped a supercomputer with 131,000 processors!

His approach? Human-led, idea-first analysis.

Forget about copying the engine’s top line. Everyone’s already seen it.

Instead, Surya sets the strategic direction first… whether it’s to control a key square, set up an attack, or build a superior pawn structure.

Then he finds the best way to pursue it using the latest chess engines.

The payoff for you? Sound, logical moves that fly under Black’s radar. So you’re not just playing the “correct” responses…