Sopiko demonstrates how to read the position and work out whether it calls for passive or active defense and shows you how to tell when to counter-attack and when you must deal with a threat. If you’ve ever lost a game because you underestimated an attack or brought pieces to defend when you should have been running with your King, this 2-hour course will help you find the right path in the future. IM Sopiko Guramishvili reveals many effective defensive techniques using her own experience of defending in chess. Advanced Defense – IM Sopiko Guramishvili This whole process is one to be internalized through repetition, and listening to Sadler’s explanations will help you think in a structured way and find the most powerful continuations. Taking into account pawn structure, piece activity, outposts, possible pawn breaks, weak color complexes, weak squares, and lines that can be opened, Matthew finds plans, evaluates them, and makes a choice between them. Using four of his own games, Matthew shows how he makes decisions and assesses positions. Knowing how to evaluate a position, form a plan, and execute it to perfection is the sign of a sophisticated player, and GM Matthew Sadler teaches exactly these skills in this 2-hour course. Strategy is a crucial element of chess strength but is often ignored, at least to some degree, by club players.
This 2-hour course will help you make better choices and understand chess at a much deeper level. Through careful examination of some model strategic games, IM Trent reveals the planning process and shows how the very best players make critical decisions, which factors they base their decisions on and how they ensure the perfect execution. Planning is one of the most difficult parts of chess without it you cannot succeed in improving your level beyond a certain point.
Planning Unveiled: A guide for improvement – International Master Lawrence TrentĪ guide for the improving player. IM Lawrence Trent draws on his own competitive experience to give you some sound advice that will help you win when the opportunity presents itself and safeguard you against defeat in tough situations.Įssential information. IM Lawrence Trent presents a 2-hour course on a very important but often ignored aspect of chess strength – the ability to play practical chess – that is, chess that gets results.Īs well as positional, tactical and strategic questions, the competitive player has a number of other factors to consider when sitting at the board.įrom the psychological pressures of feeling like we must beat a lower-rated player, to excessive caution when playing a higher rated player, it is easy to have our thoughts influenced.Īdd the restraints of the clock – should we play fast when our opponent is in time trouble? Should we play non-committal moves when we’re low on time? – and it’s clear we have to take into account much more than evaluation and calculations. Playing Practically: Tips to Improve your Results – IM Lawrence Trent He also won the 1986 Canadian Open Chess Championship. International tournament results in the next decade included first place at Esbjerg 1980, first at Yerevan 1982, equal fourth at Linares 1983, first at the Tunis Interzonal 1985, equal first at Montpellier Candidates 1985, and third at Linares 1988. Yusupow finished in second place at his first USSR Championship in 1979 (behind Efim Geller). Qualification as a grandmaster followed in 1980. Yusupow won the World Junior Championship in 1977, which then automatically qualified him for the International Master title. He has lived in Germany since the early 1990s. To become a better technical player by learning the four core principles needed to do what has been called the hardest thing in chess – win a won position! About the Author:Īrtur Mayakovich Yusupow is a Russian chess grandmaster and a chess writer. 3, renowned coach, and student of Mark Dvoretsky teaches us how to convert advantages.Įnjoy games from Carlsen, Karpov, Capablanca, and the author himself. Courses Included Winning Technique: Converting an Advantage – GM Artur JussupowĪrtur Jussupow is back! The former world no. These chess courses are presented by GM Viswanathan Anand, GM Simon Williams, GM Jan Gustafsson, GM Matthew Sadler, IM Lawrence Trent, and IM Sopiko Guramishvili, among others. Some of the topics covered in this bundle are how to take the initiative, playing practically, planning effectively, advanced defense, prophylactic thinking, and much more! In this 53+ hour bundle on chess strategy, you get 19 chess courses that will provide you with useful lessons on strategy to immediately improve your game.
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