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Chess Middlegame - How to outplay your opponent
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Chess Middlegame - How to outplay your opponent

Chess middlegame strategies and combinations every chess player must know. Chess tutorial for all.
Last updated 10/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • The weakness of the back rank and how to exploit it
  • Operations on the 7th and 8th ranks with the help of your major pieces
  • " Pawn on the 6th rank" and the tactical oppurtunities that it will give you
  • Combinations connected with diagonals, which teaches you the power of bishop.
  • Using perpetual check in defence
  • How to improve worst placed piece to better place
  • Combinations involving two files where especially rooks will take the main responsibility
  • Combinations with long and blocked diagonals

Course content

6 sections19 lectures4h 29m total length
  • Introduction2:23

    Master the middlegame with tactical file play, seventh-rank operations, and pawns on the sixth rank in the opponent’s territory, while building positional understanding and learning time-management to convert winning positions.

Requirements

  • The chess player should have at least 800 online chess rating

Description

After the opening stage, you reach a complex middlegame position with plenty of possibilities and have this big question in front of your eyes: what I should do next? For most of us the middle game part of the game is toughest moment, where basically the result of the game will be decided.

This course is designed for club level and intermdiate chess players (online chess rating 1200-2000) who is looking to improve the understanding of their middlegame. High-level middlegame technique requires a multitude of skills. Knowing what to apply and when - and exactly how - is what makes the master.


In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn how to:

❖ How to improve the worst placed piece to better place

❖ Combinations connected with diagonals, which teaches you the power of bishop.

❖ The weakness of the back rank and how to exploit it

❖ Operations on the 7th and 8th ranks with the help of your major pieces

❖ " Pawn on the 6th rank" and the tactical oppurtunities that it will give you

❖ Combinations involving two files where especially rooks will take the main responsibility

❖ Combinations with long and blocked diagonals

❖ Using perpetual check in defence


In chess having the positional vision really matters for that reason, we have the section about "Positional and Strategic Play" where you'll learn how to improve the worst placed piece to better spot and of course, one of the hardest thing how to evaluate the position. You'll understand that the key thing in positional chess is manouvering and in tactical chess calculation.


Also, this course would be really helpful who have a bad time management.  After studying some tips, you'll start having less games with time trouble and you'll learn how to play if your opponent is in time trouble. Last but not least, winning the won positions could be for some chess players a difficult task, so you'll be guided what to do once you'll have the winning position.


Who this course is for:

  • Club and amateur chess players
  • For students who studied a lot of chess tutorials but whose results are unstable
  • Chess players who is trying to improve their knowledge of the middlegame
  • Players who have 1200-2000 online chess rating