
Use tactical puzzles as a 10-minute daily drill with seven problems to build patterns, avoiding overuse; an example shows deflecting the queen leading to a win or mate.
Learn to allocate time across opening, middle game, and end game while building a universal thinking system to find the best move in any position.
Play and analyze your games to locate errors, use computer evaluations for insight, and seek a personal coach when possible to accelerate rapid chess improvement.
Presents a three-tool training plan—tactical puzzles, learning chess openings and middle-game knowledge, and playing plus analyzing games—with emphasis on outside assistance and thorough analysis for steady progress.
Learn to analyze chess games with a computer engine and extract the general rules behind each move using a two-step approach focused on forcing moves for future improvement.
Learn to analyze games, study losing games, and use tactical ideas to seize the initiative in the middle game and play for a win against stronger opponents.
What will you learn from the course?
In this course, GM Igor Smirnov answers some of the questions received from RCA students
Student 1 : Many players such as myself are club level players who would simply like to reach expert strength rating (2200) or even just rating (2000). Most club level players struggle with creating a schedule for an effective study plan, what to study & how to study.
Student 2 : Number of hours per day spent on each aspect of chess? How and what to train with only 1-2 free hours per week?
Student 3 : How to make steady progress? How to get the best out of chess books, chess software, playing online and puzzles? A course about how someone should analyze his game is very useful.
Student 4 : How to work as best when alone? Many chess players cannot offer themselves the aid of a coach for geographical or financial reasons.
Igor is the founder of the “Remote Chess Academy" company that has helped thousands of students worldwide to improve their chess results.
GM Smirnov has developed lots of chess video lessons, articles, webinars and training courses, including the famous courses “The Grandmaster's Secrets", “The Grandmaster's Positional Understanding", and “Calculate Till Mate".