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Chess Strategies: How To Play With Or Against Isolated Pawn
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Chess Strategies: How To Play With Or Against Isolated Pawn

Learn how to play positions with isolated pawn! Real strategies from Grandmasters games! Club players are welcome.
Last updated 7/2017
English

What you'll learn

  • Play positions with isolated pawn successfully
  • Apply plans to make an isolated pawn a weakness
  • Apply plans to use the strength of an isolated pawn
  • Choose which strategy exactly to apply in the certain position
  • Improve your tactical skills
  • Improve the quality of your chess games

Course content

3 sections12 lectures46m total length
  • Introduction1:49

    Explore how to play with or against an isolated pawn through two sections, defensive ideas, endgame simplification, and four strategies drawn from grandmaster examples.

Requirements

  • Only the rules of chess

Description

If you want to become a strong player, it’s very important to know the strategy how to play with or against an isolated pawn. The importance of this topic is related to the fact that isolated pawn can arise from a huge number of openings: Queen’s Gambit, Queen’s Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense (Panov Attack) and even Sicilian Defense.

This course covers all possible plans how to play the positions with an isolated pawn.

There are 4 strategies how to play against isolated pawn: 

  • Obstruct enemy pieces
  • Pass the game into the endgame
  • Simplify the position
  • Turn an isolated pawn into a pair

And there are also 4 strategies for players who like to play with isolated pawn:

  • Make a breakout
  • Hold the enemy weak pawn
  • Start the attack on the kingside
  • Use c-file

Every strategy is explained by example of real game between 2 grandmasters.

And finally I prepared a quizz for you to practice at the end the course.

With this course you also get:

  • unlimited lifetime access at no extra costs
  • all future additional lectures, game examples
  • never any questions asked full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee

I look forward to seeing you in class!

Sincerely,

Viktor

Who this course is for:

  • Clubplayers
  • Beginners, who wants to improve their positional play