1…d6 Danger by NM Max Farberov

Press On With This “Comeback” Repertoire
That Took This Semi-Retired Class Player to
2600 Online and National Master

You start with the modest 1…d6. Then you shake up White with …e5 before they can settle in. This is no waiting game! You turn up the pressure with concrete tactics. All while staying within a tight network of repeating structures and pawn breaks.

Forget sitting behind a solid but passive structure, hoping your position holds.

Instead, you head into a tense queenless middlegame where White’s prized asset barely matters… while your “undeveloped” rook attacks from its starting square.

White’s rooks own the only open file
but can’t use it, while yours attacks
from its starting square.

Or you trade off the pieces you don’t need — clearing the way for a direct assault with your pawns.

Attacking made simple:
Trade your bad bishop for their good one
— allowing your pieces to breathe and
your pawns to storm forward!

Or given the chance, you plant pawns deep in White’s camp, seize key squares, and serve them a taste of their own medicine.

National Master Max Farberov shows you how inside 1…d6 Danger.

He once cracked the USCF’s Top 100 list for his age group. He also won the 2011 New Jersey Scholastic Championship.

But then Farberov hit a wall, unable to break 1900.

The main culprit — feeling uncomfortable and reactive with Black.

That frustration followed him for years, until school and life pulled him away from tournaments.

Then came the 2020 lockdowns.

While the world stood still, Farberov went to work.

He rebuilt his game around a flexible, fighting setup with 1…d6, and his results were roaring!

🏆 A perfect 5 out of 5 at the 2021 Eastern Chess Congress (U2100).

🏆 Shared 1st at the 2023 North American Open (U2300) — catapulting his USCF rating from 1900 to 2250 and clinching the NM title.

🏆 A peak rating of over 2600 on Chess.com — capped by a stunning over-the-board upset against a 2524-rated grandmaster!

Today, he brings you the same “comeback” repertoire that…