Welcome to my new course about the Zukertort system!
I am Nikolai Maevskiy, a chess coach since 2016, a FIDE master and a sports psychologist. I love this system, because it's not so popular, so you can surprise your opponent, it's an attacking, tricky system, and it has a solid positional foundation.
This opening is also known as the Yusupov-Rubinstein system, because these two players brought many interesting ideas and played it a lot. For your opponents it can be a very unpleasant surprise, which is simple to understand and add to your opening repertoire.
I hope you enjoy our journey! Let's start!
Play pawn to d4.