Lifetime Repertoires: Cuenca's Taimanov Sicilian

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Lifetime Repertoires: Cuenca's Taimanov Sicilian

MoveTrainer® Opening course by GM Pepe Cuenca

Hijack 1.e4 Attacks with This

“Fluid Center” Sicilian

Hold on to your d-pawn! Let White show their hand first… then you counter with yours. With your fluid and flexible center, you mess with their attacking patterns, and strike at weak points they left behind.

This is your winning formula in Lifetime Repertoires: Cuenca’s Taimanov Sicilian.

It’s a complete repertoire against 1.e4. One which brings the fight to White the cunning way!

Watch how it works:

First, you answer 1.e4 with 1…c5. Then you follow up with 2…e6 and 3…cxd4. After 4.Nxd4, you build up your position with …Nc6, …Qc7, and …a6.

Taimanov Sicilian Starting

Your pawn on d7 — protected 3 times —

gives you open diagonals and pressure

angles unique from other Sicilians

Your pieces lock onto the dark squares. Your pawns control the light squares. And your d-pawn? It stays back… waiting for White to commit to a setup.

Did White unsheath the sharp English Attack?

Their queen-and-bishop battery plus raging pawn storm will steamroll unprepared players. But not you! You fire back along the a8-h1 diagonal. Then you break through with the thematic …f5! turning their pawns into liabilities.

Taimanov vs English Attack

The b7-bishop and f-pawn tag team

to turn around White’s attack

What if White launches an early g4 in Keres Attack fashion, trying to scare off your knight from f6?

You don’t flinch. You hold the light-square fortress around your king. Then you rouse your rook into action with …h5! meeting White’s challenge head-on!

Taimanov vs Keres Attack

With …h5! and …Rxe5!! you reach

White’s king before they can

trouble yours

They may try to smash through with f4-systems.

Bring it on! You turn their menacing pawns into targets. Your bishops and queen take aim from the other side of the board… while your open c-file gives you a ready-made queenside attack.

Taimanov vs f4-systems

You make White’s pawns disappear,

then you take over the lines they

leave behind

The dreaded Maroczy Bind? You slip past its grip with …Bc5! — grabbing the initiative through the very dark squares their early c4 weakened.

Taimanov vs Maroczy Bind

With …Ng4!, you hammer the dark

squares and shatter White’s hopes

for a quiet positional game.

And it’s not just the mainlines…

The Grand Prix Attack, Alapin, Closed Sicilian, and even those weird 2nd-move sidelines? All covered in this…

PhD-Level Repertoire In

Seizing The Initiative As Black

Meet your coach, Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca.

He holds a peak FIDE rating of 2558 and two Spanish Youth Championships. He’s also competed in top leagues across Europe — from the Bundesliga to the División de Honor.

But Cuenca is also a teacher. A Doctor of Applied Mathematics, he blends PhD-level rigor with electric commentary style.

His specialty:

Turning underrated sidelines — like the Philidor, Torre, and now the Taimanov — into tier-one openings.

He doesn’t just “show lines,” because even the biggest prep advantage fades. Opponents will catch up. They will find the right move.

But superior understanding? That’s what keeps winning games long after the theory runs dry.

Cuenca delivers 20 hours of video and over 80k words of instruction.

He doesn’t just explain the moves and the ideas behind them. He also lays out plans and evaluates every line. So when you head into the middlegame, you’re playing with clarity and confidence!

Let’s recap what you’re getting:

💥 A complete 1.e4 killer based on the fluid center of the Taimanov Sicilian.

💥 28 Quickstarter lines to get you up and running… and playing the Taimanov in the shortest time possible.

💥 Priority lines keep your prep sharp, while cutting out low-probability noise. Then the rest of the repertoire serves as your on-demand library when you’re ready to expand your prep.

💥 Model games featuring the Taimanov at the highest level!

Watch 2700-rated GMs grind down White in a bishop-vs-knight endgame, overwhelm the queen with 3 minor pieces… and cut up the board with the bishop pair!

With Cuenca’s Taimanov Sicilian, you don’t just learn an opening.

You get tournament-tested, PhD-level analysis. Then MoveTrainer drills every line into your long-term chess memory… making the Taimanov’s hard-to-pin style your own.

Try it out for a full month. Watch the videos. Review the lines. Then put this Sicilian to the test in your own games.

If it doesn’t feel like a serious upgrade to your Black repertoire? You’re covered by our 30-day “love it or return it” guarantee.

See you inside!