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New Opening Series - Full Recording Schedule for 2026
Hi everyone, Stjepan here! The new opening series started with the Caro-Kann. I will cover every single opening (again). In 2026, a new opening video will come out every day.Each opening series will come with annotated repertoires for black and for white. The first one, on the Caro-Kann, is already available. I will also prepare a list of books for every covered opening, and make sure to include my recommendations against each variation.
In the image above, you can see the current series schedule - openings in order. That will not change. Below you can find a full schedule of videos per day for the entire year. That may change if I find out that I'd forgotten to include a variation. If you find any gaps in the series, let me know!
The videos that were published from Jan 15, the beginning of the series, until today aren't included.
(Continuing the Caro-Kann series)
1/26/2026 Bronstein
1/27/2026 Nd2 Advance
1/28/2026 Botvinnik-Carls
1/29/2026 Fantasy Variation
1/30/2026 Exchange Variation
1/31/2026 Panov-Botvinnik Attack
2/1/2026 Accelerated Panov-Botvinnik Attack
2/2/2026 Breyer Variation
2/3/2026 Two Knights Attack
2/4/2026 Goldman Variation
2/5/2026 Hillbilly Attack
2/6/2026 Ruy Lopez Introduction
2/7/2026 Chigorin Variation
2/8/2026 Breyer Variation
2/9/2026 Zaitsev System
2/10/2026 Kholmov Variation
2/11/2026 Flohr System
2/12/2026 Karpov Variation
2/13/2026 Smyslov Defense
2/14/2026 Arkhangelsk
2/15/2026 Marshall Attack
2/16/2026 Anti-Marshall
2/17/2026 Exchange Variation
2/18/2026 Schliemann Defense
2/19/2026 Berlin Defense
2/20/2026 Anti-Berlin
2/21/2026 Open Spanish
2/22/2026 Cozio Defense
2/23/2026 Classical Variation
2/24/2026 Bird Variation
2/25/2026 Steinitz Defense
2/26/2026 Modern Steinitz Defense
2/27/2026 Neo-Arkhangelsk
2/28/2026 Wormald Attack
3/1/2026 Mackenzie Variation
3/2/2026 Anderssen variation
3/3/2026 Tarrasch Variation
3/4/2026 Fianchetto Defense
3/5/2026 Center Attack
3/6/2026 Worrall Attack
3/7/2026 Averbakh Variation
3/8/2026 Sicilian Introduction
3/9/2026 Najdorf
3/10/2026 Dragon
3/11/2026 Accelerated Dragon
3/12/2026 Hyperaccelerated Dragon
3/13/2026 Classical variation
3/14/2026 Scheveningen
3/15/2026 Taimanov
3/16/2026 Kalashnikov
3/17/2026 Sveshnikov
3/18/2026 Rossolimo
3/19/2026 Moscow
3/20/2026 Kan
3/21/2026 Kramnik
3/22/2026 Prins
3/23/2026 Four Knights
3/24/2026 Pin Variation
3/25/2026 Alapin
3/26/2026 Delayed Alapin
3/27/2026 King's Indian Attack vs Sicilian
3/28/2026 O'Kelly
3/29/2026 Nimzowitsch
3/30/2026 Katalymov
3/31/2026 Closed Sicilian
4/1/2026 Grand Prix
4/2/2026 Quinteros Variation
4/3/2026 Smith-Morra Gambit
4/4/2026 Keres Variation
4/5/2026 Chameleon System
4/6/2026 Lasker-Dunne Attack
4/7/2026 Staunton-Cochrane
4/8/2026 Kronberger
4/9/2026 Mengarini
4/10/2026 Wing Gambit
4/11/2026 Snyder
4/12/2026 Bowdler Attack
4/13/2026 London Introduction
4/14/2026 Difference between 2.f4 and 2.Nf3
4/15/2026 Main Line
4/16/2026 QID Setups
4/17/2026 Grunfeld Setups
4/18/2026 KID Setups
4/19/2026 Dutch
4/20/2026 Symmetrical, early Bf5
4/21/2026 Benoni Setups
4/22/2026 Chigorin Setups
4/23/2026 King's Gambit Introduction
4/24/2026 Classical Variation
4/25/2026 Kieseritzky Gambit
4/26/2026 Allgaier Gambit
4/27/2026 Muzio Gambit
4/28/2026 Ghulam Kassim Gambit
4/29/2026 McDonnell Gambit
4/30/2026 Salvio Gambit
5/1/2026 Cochrane Gambit
5/2/2026 Hanstein Gambit
5/3/2026 Philidor Gambit
5/4/2026 Quaade Gambit
5/5/2026 Rosentreter Gambit
5/6/2026 Modern Defense
5/7/2026 Fischer Defense
5/8/2026 Cunningham Defense
5/9/2026 Bishop's Gambit
5/10/2026 Schallopp Defense
5/11/2026 Becker Defense
5/12/2026 Bonch-Osmolovsky Defense
5/13/2026 MacLeod Defense
5/14/2026 Wagenbach Defense
5/15/2026 Gianutio Countergambit
5/16/2026 Mason-Keres Gambit
5/17/2026 Villemson Gambit
5/18/2026 Tartakower gambit
5/19/2026 Breyer Gambit
5/20/2026 Basman Gambit
5/21/2026 Falkbeer Countergambit
5/22/2026 Classical Defense
5/23/2026 Miles Defense
5/24/2026 Mafia Defense
5/25/2026 King's Indian Introduction
5/26/2026 Orthodox Variation
5/27/2026 Glek Defense
5/28/2026 Positional Defense
5/29/2026 Mar del Plata Variation
5/30/2026 Petrosian variation
5/31/2026 Gligorić System
6/1/2026 Exchange Variation
6/2/2026 Zinnowitz Variation
6/3/2026 Averbakh
6/4/2026 Semi-Averbakh
6/5/2026 Sämisch Variation
6/6/2026 Four Pawns Attack
6/7/2026 Fianchetto
6/8/2026 Makagonov
6/9/2026 Hungarian Attack
6/10/2026 Anti-Grunfeld
6/11/2026 Bayonet Attack
6/12/2026 Classical System
6/13/2026 Modern System
6/14/2026 Korchnoi Attack
6/15/2026 Italian Introduction
6/16/2026 Giuoco Piano
6/17/2026 Two Knights
6/18/2026 Fried Liver Attack
6/19/2026 Traxler
6/20/2026 Lolli
6/21/2026 Fritz Variation
6/22/2026 Ulvestad Variation
6/23/2026 Hungarian Defense
6/24/2026 Blackburne Shilling Gambit
6/25/2026 3...g6
6/26/2026 Paris Defense
6/27/2026 Anti-Fried Liver
6/28/2026 Rousseau Gambit
6/29/2026 Giuoco Pianissimo
6/30/2026 Moller Attack
7/1/2026 Four Knights
7/2/2026 Evans gambit
7/3/2026 Italian Gambit
7/4/2026 Jerome Gambit
7/5/2026 French Introduction
7/6/2026 Winawer Variation
7/7/2026 Classical Variation
7/8/2026 Rubinstein Variation
7/9/2026 Hecht-Reefschläger Variation
7/10/2026 Burn Variation
7/11/2026 Albin–Chatard Attack
7/12/2026 McCutcheon Variation
7/13/2026 Steinitz Variation
7/14/2026 Paulsen Variation
7/15/2026 Tarrasch Variation
7/16/2026 Guimard Variation
7/17/2026 Morozevich Variation
7/18/2026 Advance Variation
7/19/2026 Exchange Variation
7/20/2026 KIA
7/21/2026 Chigorin
7/22/2026 Two Knights
7/23/2026 Horwitz Attack
7/24/2026 La Bourdonnais Variation
7/25/2026 Steiner Variation
7/26/2026 Réti-Spielmann Attack
7/27/2026 Steinitz Attack
7/28/2026 Schlechter Variation
7/29/2026 Alapin Gambit
7/30/2026 Bird Variation
7/31/2026 Diemer–Duhm Gambit
8/1/2026 Dutch Introduction
8/2/2026 Dutch vs London
8/3/2026 Leningrad
8/4/2026 Stonewall
8/5/2026 Classical
8/6/2026 Rapport Stonewall
8/7/2026 Staunton Gambit
8/8/2026 Raphael Variation
8/9/2026 Hopton Attack
8/10/2026 Krejcik Gambit
8/11/2026 Korchnoi Attack
8/12/2026 Alapin
8/13/2026 Botvinnik Variation
8/14/2026 Ilyin–Genevsky Variation
8/15/2026 Nimzo-Indian Introduction
8/16/2026 Rubinstein System
8/17/2026 Botvinnik Variation
8/18/2026 Taimanov Variation
8/19/2026 Parma Variation
8/20/2026 Karpov Variation
8/21/2026 Larsen Variation
8/22/2026 Khasin Variation
8/23/2026 Averbakh Variation
8/24/2026 Bronstein Variation
8/25/2026 Smyslov Variation
8/26/2026 Reshevsky Variation
8/27/2026 Modern Variation
8/28/2026 Hübner Variation
8/29/2026 Rubinstein Variation
8/30/2026 St. Petersburg Variation
8/31/2026 Classical Variation
9/1/2026 Romanishin System
9/2/2026 Milner-Barry Variation
9/3/2026 Kasparov Variation
9/4/2026 Kmoch
9/5/2026 Leningrad Variation
9/6/2026 Sämisch Variation
9/7/2026 Romanishin Variation
9/8/2026 Spielmann Variation
9/9/2026 4.Bd2
9/10/2026 Mikenas Variation
9/11/2026 Dilworth Gambit
9/12/2026 Pirc Introduction
9/13/2026 Austrian Attack
9/14/2026 Classical
9/15/2026 150 Attack
9/16/2026 Argentine Attack
9/17/2026 Byrne variation
9/18/2026 Sveshnikov System
9/19/2026 Kholmov System
9/20/2026 Czech Defence
9/21/2026 Transposing to the Philidor
9/22/2026 Antal Defense
9/23/2026 Maroczy Defense
9/24/2026 Lion's Jaw
9/25/2026 QGD Introduction
9/26/2026 Tarrasch
9/27/2026 Alatortsev Variation
9/28/2026 Noteboom Variation
9/29/2026 Marshall Gambit
9/30/2026 Ragozin
10/1/2026 Janowski Variation
10/2/2026 Tartakower Variation
10/3/2026 Anti-Tartakower
10/4/2026 Lasker Variation
10/5/2026 Orthodox
10/6/2026 Cambridge Springs
10/7/2026 Exchange Variation
10/8/2026 Three Knights Variation
10/9/2026 Vienna
10/10/2026 Semi-tarrasch
10/11/2026 Harrwitz Attack
10/12/2026 Scotch Introduction
10/13/2026 Göring Gambit
10/14/2026 Scotch Gambit
10/15/2026 Classical Variation
10/16/2026 Meitner Variation
10/17/2026 Blackburne Attack
10/18/2026 Paulsen Attack
10/19/2026 Millennium Variation
10/20/2026 Blumenfeld Attack
10/21/2026 Intermezzo Variation
10/22/2026 Potter Variation
10/23/2026 Romanishin Variation
10/24/2026 Mieses Variation
10/25/2026 Schmidt Variation
10/26/2026 Tartakower Variation
10/27/2026 Malaniuk Variation
10/28/2026 Steinitz Variation
10/29/2026 Max Lange Attack
10/30/2026 Relfsson Gambit
10/31/2026 Benoni Introduction
11/1/2026 Old Benoni
11/2/2026 Czech Benoni
11/3/2026 Benko Gambit
11/4/2026 Modern Benoni
11/5/2026 Blumenfeld Countergambit
11/6/2026 Snake Benoni
11/7/2026 Taimanov Variation
11/8/2026 Four Pawns Attack
11/9/2026 7.Bf4
11/10/2026 Knight's Tour Variation
11/11/2026 Fianchetto
11/12/2026 Uhlmann Variation
11/13/2026 Averbakh-Grivas Attack
11/14/2026 New York Variation
11/15/2026 Pawn Storm Variation
11/16/2026 Czerniak Defense
11/17/2026 Grunfeld Introduction
11/18/2026 Exchange Variation
11/19/2026 Anti-Grunfeld
11/20/2026 Russian System
11/21/2026 Hungarian Variation
11/22/2026 Smyslov Variation
11/23/2026 Prins Variation
11/24/2026 Byrne Variation
11/25/2026 Taimanov Variation
11/26/2026 Brinckmann Attack
11/27/2026 Grunfeld Gambit
11/28/2026 Neo-Grünfeld
11/29/2026 Accelerated Russian System
11/30/2026 Flohr Variation
12/1/2026 Quiet System
12/2/2026 Nadanian Variation
12/3/2026 Zaitsev Gambit
12/4/2026 Lutikov Variation
12/5/2026 Stockholm Variation
12/6/2026 Petrosian System
12/7/2026 Hungarian Attack
12/8/2026 Slav Introduction
12/9/2026 Semi-Slav
12/10/2026 Meran
12/11/2026 Anti Meran
12/12/2026 Moscow
12/13/2026 Anti-Moscow
12/14/2026 Transpositions to QGD
12/15/2026 Chebanenko
12/16/2026 Geller Gambit
12/17/2026 Schlechter Slav
12/18/2026 Czech Slav
12/19/2026 Alapin Variation
12/20/2026 Steiner Variation
12/21/2026 Smyslov Variation
12/22/2026 Soultanbéieff Variation
12/23/2026 Bled Attack
12/24/2026 Dutch Variation
12/25/2026 Krause Attack
12/26/2026 Shirov–Shabalov Gambit
12/27/2026 Botvinnik Variation
12/28/2026 Quiet Slav
12/29/2026 Modern Slav
12/30/2026 English Introduction
12/31/2026 Symmetrical