The Italian Game : Inside & Out! by WGM Tatev Abrahamyan

Not your ordinary opening course:
A comprehensive look at the ideas and strategies of the Italian Game

It’s an opening that’s stood the test of time – and now you can learn the inside and out of the battleplans that work for both amateurs and grandmasters alike.

The Italian Game: Inside & Out! is a truly unique course, bridging the gap between an opening course and a strategy course.

Unlike most opening courses, you are not given an author’s recommended repertoire to memorize. Instead, WGM Tatev Abrahamyan gives you a comprehensive Italian Game course, where you study what the opening is all about – the ideas and strategies that make the Italian the versatile and powerful opening it is.

What exactly is inside?

♝ Introductory outlines, model games, and exercises – get a presentation of the general schemes, followed by real-life examples. Understand why moves are played in the game, then quiz yourself with puzzles to test your knowledge

♝ How-to guides on the Two Knights, the Open Italian, the Closed Italian, and all sublines, sidelines, and rare tries by Black, separated into individual chapters – use the compendium of lines provided to develop your own repertoire if you want

♝ Chapters on Thematic Tactics and Thematic Italian Plans – testing your knowledge of the ideas of the opening, so you can comfortably cruise into the middlegame with confidence

Practical play taught by a practical player

Originally developed for iChess, this course launched on Chessable to harness the power of MoveTrainer®️ drilling the thematic tactics and positional motifs into your brain.

In nearly 10 hours of essential video instruction, your author, Woman Grandmaster Tatev Abrahamyan will teach you the Italian Game so you develop an intuitive understanding that will give you a practical advantage over the competition.

The best move according to the engine doesn’t have to be the best move for you – your opponent may know the theory, but you’ll be on your home turf as you will understand the flavor of the positions and motifs.

Abrahamyan knows a thing or two about posing practical problems for opponents too, as she has several podium finishes in the US Women’s Championship.

Inside she has curated several examples of such play so you can emulate it in your own games.