What are the usual opening materials

By my own experience (I have studied a lot of different materials), I can conclude that there are 2 main categories of opening materials:

• A collection of a large quantity of opening variations without normal text commentaries.
  Different opening encyclopedias, informants, etc. are included in this category. The main purpose of such materials is to CONFUSE a chess player and create a chaos in his head. By the way, I am not joking really.
• The lectures (books, articles) of a strong (or not so strong) chess players.
  In these lectures the author usually tells the well-known variations of the given opening with SUPERFICIAL comments. Such lectures can be used for preliminary acquaintance with an opening. But it is only the beginning. It is obviously not enough for serious study.

Sometimes it is possible to find a good book about a concrete opening. It could be useful stuff, but even such books have 2 serious shortcomings:

• They contain only the well-known variations and games. Nobody wants to share their own analysis, novelties and so on.
• They contain a lot of unnecessary information. It makes it hard to use it PRACTICALLY.

Let’s say such book contains 100 pages. Your opening repertoire contains 30 opening (15 for White + 15 for Black). Thus you have to study, remember and use 3000 pages of opening variations! 1 life time could be too short for that. That’s why it is hard to use such opening materials for a pre-game preparation.

That’s why I’ve created this special course “The Grandmaster’s Openings Laboratory”!