The Chess Strategy Course includes 90 annotated games structured around strategic themes like attacking the king in various positions, exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's position like inactive rooks or weak squares near the castle. It also covers topics like the qualitative value of pieces, typical sacrifices, importance of squares, pawn structures, initiatives, exchanges, positional sacrifices, and defenses. The goal is to teach strategic concepts through detailed analysis of master games.
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Attack Against The King
The Chess Strategy Course includes 90 annotated games structured around strategic themes like attacking the king in various positions, exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's position like inactive rooks or weak squares near the castle. It also covers topics like the qualitative value of pieces, typical sacrifices, importance of squares, pawn structures, initiatives, exchanges, positional sacrifices, and defenses. The goal is to teach strategic concepts through detailed analysis of master games.
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The Chess Strategy Course includes 90 annotated games structured on the following main strategic themes:
Attack Against the King
» Attack Against the King Left in the Middle The Exploitation of the Inactivity of the Opponent's Rooks Keeping the King in the Middle
» Attack Against the King with Castles on the same side Demolition of the King's Pawn Position The Exploitation of the Weak Squares around the Castle Opening of Lines and Diagonals Attacking with Major Pieces Pawn Avalanche Driving out of the King
» Attack Against the King on Different Sides Pawn Avalanche Attacking with Minor Pieces
The Opening How to Treat The Opening Stage Opening Tricks
The Qualitative Value of the Pieces The Qualitative Value of the Pieces - general concepts » The Qualitative Value of the Rooks The Fight for Open Files The Penetration of the Rooks on 7th Rank and the Outpost The Penetration of the Rooks on the Back Rank The Penetration on a Side File The Usage of the 3rd (6th) Rank for the Rooks The Backward Pawns on Open Files The Open Files in Attack Against the King The Rook Outside the Game » The Qualitative Value of the Bishops Bad Bishop vs Good Bishop The Fight Against the Bad Bishop The Improvement of the Bishop which is blocked by Own Pawns The Improvement of the Bishop which is blocked by Opponent's Pawns The Pair of Bishops in the Middle Game The Opposite Colored Bishops in the Middle Game The Bishop Stronger than the Knight in the Middle Game » The Qualitative Value of the Knights The Knight is Outside the Game The Knight Stronger than the Bishop in the Middle Game » The Qualitative Value of the Pawns Weak Pawns Pawn "Islands" Double Pawns Pawn Majorities The Free Pawn in the Middle Game The "Nail" Pawn » The Qualitative Value of the Queen The Queen is Outside the Game
Typical Sacrifices The Sacrifice on h7 Lasker's Sacrifice The Sacrifice on h6 The Sacrifice on d5 in Sicilian Defense The Sacrifice on e6 in Sicilian Defense The Sacfifice on b5 in Sicilian Defense
The Importance of the Squares Weak/Strong Squares 1 Weak/Strong Squares 2
Types of Center and Actions on the Centre Dynamic Center and Pawn Thrusts - download for free Mobile Pawn Center Closed Center; Undermining of the Center Closed Center (2) Center with Pawns and Minor Pieces (Botwinnik Structure) Open Center (without pawns on d- and e-files) The Breakthrough in the Middle Game
Typical Pawn Structures The Isolated Pawn - Theory and Actions The Isolated Pawn - Actions (2) The Hanging Pawns Karlsbad Structure Benoni Structure "Hedgehog" Structure (1) "Hedgehog" Structure (2) The Indian Attack
Space Advantage Local Space Advantage Space Advantage on both Sides The Point of the Lance (Using the g-Pawn to Gain Space Advantage) The Usage of the Side Pawns to Gain Space Advantage
The Initiative The Fight for the Initiative
The Exchange The Exchange The Exchange of the Weak Pieces The Exchange because of the Lack of Space The Exchange for Neutralizing the Opponent's Initiative The Exchange for Transition into a better Endgame Uncommon Exchanges Avoiding the Exchanges
The Positional Sacrifice The Positional Sacrifice of a Pawn The Sacrifice of an Exchange
The Defense Active Defense The Counterattack The Defense of the Difficult Positions - Creating the Confusion The Defense of the Difficult Positions - The Bluff
Extra Themes The Anti-Play The importance of typical positions (closed centre, KID) (1) The importance of typical positions (closed centre, KID) (2)