Noel Studer

Swiss GM

“After seeing what Chessreps really is, I believe that you understand why I was surprised and quite a bit upset when I saw that ad on C-Squared…

I can tell you guys — this is not how you should train openings. And it’s definitely not how grandmasters train openings themselves. Just to make my point very clear: you can compare the lines of Chessreps’s biggest course, the Ruy Lopez with 55 lines to Caruana’s own opening course on the Archangel variation. And it’s just a sub variation of the Ruy Lopez for Black, which has a total of 891 trainable lines!

So here we have a GM publishing a course with 891 lines in a sub of the Ruy Lopez, claiming that he ‘fine-tunes’ his openings with Chessreps, whose longest opening course is 55 lines… You can draw your own conclusions from this.

The problem is that when someone with such power and strength, grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, who is well known in the chess world, is strongly recommending a product like that — that’s where a lot of damage is going to be done.

There are a lot of trashy products, which I personally believe Chessreps is one of them. And there are sadly a lot of people who are ready to take money to recommend these trashy products.”