
Discover how to identify weak king-side squares, create a knight outpost, and push through e5 and f7 to pressure the king and convert weaknesses.
Ghost pieces and pawns are pieces you pretend don’t exist yet they control squares and shield against attacks. Keep the ghost pawn in front of the king to restrain opponents.
Learn the dragon setup for black in the Sicilian, featuring the dragon bishop on g7, g6 pawn, and a plan to press the center and queenside against the Yugoslav attack.
Explore under-promotion in chess, choosing knight, rook, or bishop over a queen to avoid stalemate, capitalize on forks, and gain a material edge.
Learn how opposite-color bishop endgames draw unless one side has extra pawns. Build a blockade by placing pawns on bishop's color and coordinate king and bishop, sacrificing to force draw.
This course is meant to create an all-rounded approach to chess for students who have already learned tactics and attacking ideas. Instead of attacking blindly, this course will help you understand what type of pawn structures you should be going for, what type of pieces you need to have on the board in different positions, and how to convert your advantage or save a slightly worse position in endgames that will likely occur. As Bobby Fischer once said, "Tactics flow from a superior position". The point of this course is to help you obtain those superior positions, and know why they're superior.