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Chess Openings Explained is a membership-based learning site focused on chess openings. It is positioned as a more modern, interactive extension to the bestselling books Chess Openings for White Explained and Chess Openings for Black Explained. The site was founded by GM Eugene Perelshteyn, one of the three grandmaster authors behind those books.
Based on the scraped content, members get updated PGNs for the White and Black opening books, an exclusive video library, and Opening FAQ Q&A. The video topics are highly focused, covering many specific lines such as the Accelerated Dragon, King’s Indian Defense, English Opening, London System, Grand Prix Attack, Nimzo-Indian, Caro-Kann, Scandinavian, and more. The courses lean more toward building an “opening repertoire” and handling practical positions than teaching chess rules from scratch.
The site offers monthly and annual memberships: $4.99 per month or $49.99 per year, with the annual plan described as saving the equivalent of two months. Compared with many chess course platforms, the entry price is relatively low. However, the scraped text does not disclose payment methods, refund policy, or whether a free trial is available.
The main strengths are clear professional credibility, instruction by a GM, Q&A support from a team of strong players, and fairly dense content. The combination of PGNs, videos, and FAQs can help turn opening memorization into practical understanding. The downsides are that some content shown on public pages is members-only; there is no visible information about certificates, quizzes, assignments, learning progress tracking, or structured level-based paths. Although the site says new videos are added weekly, the listed updates in recent years do not appear continuous, so users may need to judge activity level for themselves.
It is better suited to chess players who already have some foundation and want to build a stable opening repertoire or prepare for common variations before games. It is especially suitable for readers of the related books who want updated PGNs and supplementary videos. It is less suitable for complete beginners or users looking for a systematic training camp with certificates.
The scraped text does not provide information on access from mainland China, CDN availability, payment options, or subtitles, and the teaching language is not explicitly stated. Since the content titles and pages are in English, Chinese users will need a certain level of English reading ability. Its access status from China is currently unclear.
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