Triangle Setup – A complete defense against 1.d4 CBFT

Last year I played the Dutch and the English Defense. While I had good results online with the Dutch, I had really bad experiences in over-the-board events; where real chess is played! So this year I desperately needed to make a change in my opening repertoire as black against 1.d4. The answer to my prayers came in the form of The Triangle Setup DVD from Michal Krasenkow and ChessBase; which makes Caissa a real goddess, because she answered my prayers.

GM Krasenkow is a coach at heart, and the first thing that hit me was in his introductory video where he advises the viewer: “you need to play this opening, and then come back to the DVD for guidance, and see where you deviated from the lines proposed here.”

This advice was right on the mark, because it is the only way to truly learn an opening. I followed it to the letter: I began to watch the videos, then played a lot of blitz games, where I had some bad surprises. Then I returned to the videos and discovered what my mind remembered wrong! It was a great learning experience, and I am happy to have become a student of such a great teacher through this DVD.