Hello, I am Grand Master Ivan Cheparinov. I want to present you my course on Benko Gambit. In this course you will have the full knowledge to play this aggressive and interesting opening for black pieces.

In more than 7 hours of video I will explain all the ideas and plans plus a lot of theoretical knowledge.

In each lesson you will be able to download a pgn file with all the lines for the lesson, which you can check later.

I will give you a very modern look of Benko Gambit. The lines I offer are very well cheked with modern chess engines.

The course will be very suitable for advanced chess players and up. Of course, I believe it can be very useful for all chess lovers.

About the author

Ivan Cheparinov was born in Bulgaria on 26 November 1986. He learned to play chess at the age of five and progressed quickly, winning the Bulgarian Junior Championship in 2000 and becoming a grandmaster in 2004. He has finished first or equal first in many strong open and elite round-robin tournaments, such as Essent (2006), Morelia (2007), European Club Cup Champion with Linex Magic. Sigeman & Co invitational (2007), Ruy Lopez Masters (2009 and 2010), Burgas 2012 and Gibraltar Chess Festival (2014).

Ivan won the national championship of Bulgaria four times (2004, 2005, 2012 and 2018) and tied for first at the European Individual Championship in 2007. After his results in 2007, he crossed the threshold of 2700 for the first time and has since been a regular member of the '2700+' club, with a current peak rating of 2718. He was a long-time second of World Champion Veselin Topalov and Women's World Champion Antoaneta Stefanova. Ivan is also a FIDE Senior Trainer