A full 1.d4 repertoire: help wanted!

A full 1.d4 repertoire: help wanted!

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After spending three days developing the Caro-Kann resource with full service paid to each line in MCO, I find myself daunted at the prospect of doing the same for my 1.d4 repertoire.

For this reason, I'm looking for assistance in producing in puzzle format MCO lines from the following 1.d4 openings and their variations: 

The Slav (TheAdvocate)
The Queen's Gambit Accepted (TheAdvocate)
The Queen's Gambit Declined (Commander_Riker)
The Queen's Indian Defence (TheAdvocate)
The Grunfield Defence
The King's Indian Defence (chessicstudent)
The Benko/Volga Gambit (marbh_shainn)
The Benoni (TheAdvocate)
The Dutch (hamjamt)
The Modern

I can supply excerpts from MCO that will serve as a basis for the variations and their lines. You'll then reproduce the lines in puzzle format, beginning at 1.d4 so as to play the lines from White's perspective. If you'd like to produce a puzzle playing with the Black pieces, there's really nothing to it! The fastest process I've found is to type the pgn from the MCO line, then copy that pgn BEFORE producing the puzzle as White. Insert the puzzle, create a new one, paste the pgn you typed and then "set focus" to 1.d4. This will begin the puzzle at 1.d4, making it Black to move. I've made a quick example in my Slav post, which can be found on my blog.

You can find the basis for this system, the Caro-Kann post, here: http://www.chess.com/blog/nickguyrees/caro-kann-defense

Thanks for reading, and incha'allah we'll be working together in the future.

Edit: my vision after all of the work is done is to assemble all of the blog posts so that I can make certain due service is paid to both the Black and White sides of the openings and so that I can add other material (YouTube videos, links to articles, relevant books). All credit will be given to the original contributors to the project. Afterwards I'll round robin lines between chess engines (currently have access to Stockfish, Toga II, Phalanx, and Scidlet, so it should be a good data set) in order to see middlegame ideas. The round robin games will then go under each line, and I and other contributors will do a write up. We could also just look for master games playing the lines, which has the advantage of being played by human players but the disadvantage of being a limited data set. Ah well, we'll cross that river when we come to it.

Thanks again for reading.

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1.e4

The Caro-Kann Defense


1.d4

Call for help

The Semi-Slav and Slav Defenses

The King's Indian Defense

The Benko Gambit

The Benoni

The Queen's Indian Defense
The Queen's Gambit Accepted

Endgame FENs

Endgame Practice
Protected Passed Pawn, Connected Passed Pawns, & Outside Passed Pawn

Pairs of Isolated Passed Pawns & Space Advantage
Spare Tempo, Blockade, Breaking Up, & Breakthrough
The Rook's Pawn
Knight Endings
Bishop Endings

Knight vs Bishop Endgames

Rook Endings No.1


Annotated Correspondence Games

Annotated Correspondence #1 Four Knights Spanish

Annotated Correspondence #2 Caro-Kann 2.e5?!

Annotated Correspondence #3 Caro-Kann 2.Nf3

Annotated Correspondence #4 Caro-Kann Advanced 4.Nf3 e6

Annotated Correspondence #5 Caro-Kann Main Line
Annotated Correspondence #6 Caro-Kann 2.Nf3

Annotated Standard Games

Annotated 1

Annotated 2

Annotated 3

Annotated Standard #4 Caro-Kann Exchange

Annotated Standard #5 Nimzo-Indian Leningrad

Annotated Standard #6 Queen's Pawn Neo-Indian

Annotated Standard #7 Benko Gambit Declined

Annotated Standard #8 Queen's Gambit Declined Marshal's Defense

Annotated Standard #9 The Modern
Annotated Standard #10 Caro-Kann Exchange 4.Nf3

Annotated Standard #11 Caro-Kann Bronstein-Larsen
Annotated Standard #12 English Mikenas-Carls Sicilian
Annotated Standard #13 Queen's Gambit Declined

Annotated Standard #14 Caro-Kann Advanced

Annotated Standard No.15 Caro-Kann

Annotated Standard no. 16 Van Geet


Annotated Engine Games

Versus Stockfish #1 Caro-Kann Bronstein-Larsen