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In this Advanced Chess Course, students will be familiarized with Advanced Chess Tactics such as X-Rays, along with advanced attacking ideas such as sacrifices, pawn storms, space attacking, maneuvering and maximizing pieces, rules of square and weak and good squares, and much more. Along with some reliable openings, this course provides the foundation for an ambitious tournament player, along with skills like evaluation of variations which are just as important. After this course, students will be able to defend against unsound attacks, and know what to look for when they're coming out of the opening, and understanding of what they want to achieve.

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Students should be familiar with tactics like pins, forks, discovered attacks, distraction of defenders, decoys and skewers, and have some basic positional understanding of what to do after the opening.
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Chess Guide for Advanced Students

Jun 03 2021 - Video Course (3 hrs 30 mins)

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, which attack works and which doesn’t work, how to spot opponent’s mistakes, and how to convert your advantage or save a slightly worse position in endgames that will likely occur. All in all, this course provides a complete foundation for an attacking player who wants to take the game to the opponents rather than sitting back and keeping their pieces passive. This course is for anyone looking for a toolkit of positional themes to strengthen their tactical and attacking understanding.


Created by Mike Ivanov

Chess

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This course includes:

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What you'll learn

In this Advanced Chess Course, students will be familiarized with Advanced Chess Tactics such as X-Rays, along with advanced attacking ideas such as sacrifices, pawn storms, space attacking, maneuvering and maximizing pieces, rules of square and weak and good squares, and much more. Along with some reliable openings, this course provides the foundation for an ambitious tournament player, along with skills like evaluation of variations which are just as important. After this course, students will be able to defend against unsound attacks, and know what to look for when they're coming out of the opening, and understanding of what they want to achieve.

Requirements

Students should be familiar with tactics like pins, forks, discovered attacks, distraction of defenders, decoys and skewers, and have some basic positional understanding of what to do after the opening.

Course Content

1 Unit - 21 video lessons
Lesson 1: Pawn Storms in Chess
A pawn storm is a chess strategy that involves rapidly moving several pawns toward the opponent's defenses. A pawn storm typically involves adjacent pawns on one side of the board. Pawn storm in chess is one of the easiest ways to attack. In this video, I will demonstrate to you how to use pawn storms to attack in chess.
12:23
Lesson 2: Sacrifices in Chess
A sacrifice in chess is a move in which a piece is given up with the goal of gaining tactical or positional compensation in other forms. A sacrifice could also be a deliberate exchange of a higher-valued chess piece for a lower-valued opponent's piece. Except for the king, any chess piece may be sacrificed. In this video, you will learn about sacrificing in chess.
10:59
Lesson 3: Attack the King-Side like Tal
Mikhail Tal was a chess genius and the eighth world chess champion. Tal loved the game in itself and considered that "chess, first of all, is art." In this video, I will talk about another attacking idea which is based on the pawn chain. I will share with you 4 important points you need to know when using Tal playing style.
09:15
Lesson 4: The Power of X-Ray Attacks
In chess, the term X-ray or X-ray attack is sometimes used interchangeably with skewer. It can also refer to a tactic in which a piece either attacks an enemy piece indirectly through another piece or pieces or defends a friendly piece indirectly through an enemy piece. In this video, I will show you the perfect example of an x-ray and 2 other examples out of the many examples of X-ray.
04:54
Lesson 5: Space Advantages and How to Use Them
The main advantage of more space in chess is that your pieces are more mobile. The advantage of space in chess increases your influence over the board and provides tactical and strategic options. In this video, you will learn about the several different ways to obtain more space on the board and how to use them.
10:43
Lesson 6: The Two Fundamental Rules of Chess
Rules of chess are rules governing the play of the game of chess, and learning the basic chess rules will help you build a strong foundation in chess. In this video, I will tell you about two fundamental rules of chess, and they are both rules that you can use to help you think in your thought process when you are playing. If you are not sure of what to do at any point in the game, take your worst piece and make it better.
12:12
Lesson 7: Maneuvering and Maximizing Pieces
In this video, we will talk about maneuvering and improving pieces in chess. You have to make bad pieces better before checkmating their king. You will learn the tips to improve the position of your pieces, how to apply pressure on a weakness of the opponent, and how to use maneuvering and maximizing pieces to aid attacks
11:04
Lesson 8: How to Make Basic Plans in Chess
In this video, we will cover elementary plans in chess. I will show you the basic guidelines and shortcuts you should use for figuring out where to attack or what to do. Basically, to have a clue of what you are doing. Planning can be dangerous if you forget about immediate tactical threats that your opponent poses. Your opponent is planning too.
10:29
Lesson 9: Finding and Using Weak Squares
Weak squares are squares that a pawn cannot defend. These weak squares are thus open to occupation by an enemy piece. In this video, I will talk about finding weak squares in the opponent’s camp and trying to use them to your advantage. Always ask yourself two questions. The first is how can you make your worse piece better? And when you can make your worse piece better.
05:46
Lesson 10: How to Give Out Report Cards to Positions
In this video, I will talk about report cards in chess and how they can help us evaluate a position. I think about chess as two things – calculation and evaluation. If you can do both appropriately, then you will be a great chess player. In chess, you evaluate the current position, what’s going on right now, what’s going on in the future in a particular variation. Piece activity is more important than the weakness on the board.
12:25
Lesson 11: Ghost Pieces and Ghost Pawns
In this video, we will talk about ghost pieces and ghost pawns in chess. You can imagine a ghost piece, and ghost pawns as something that you can pretend do not exist. You will learn about what they look like and why you need to pretend they don’t exist.
09:36
Lesson 12: The Art of Defense Section 3: Easy Openings to Learn
The art of defense in chess analyzes the practical aspects of accepting sacrifices, restrain your opponent’s pieces, obtain counterplay, create a defense perimeter. It is easier to attack than defend, so try to avoid defending, but strong players must learn how to defend because they have to do it in most parts of their games. In this video, you will learn how to defend against kingsides attacks, sacrifices, and scary stuff.
14:22
Lesson 13: Closed Sicilian Setup for White
The Closed Sicilian is one of the more common lines that white has in the sicilican defense. In the Closed Sicilian, black has more space on the queenside, and white has more space on the kingside. Black will often seek to expand on the queenside or strike in the center before white’s attack crashes through. In this video, I will talk about the closed Sicilian setup against the Sicilian defense.
12:44
Lesson 14: Example of a Successful Closed Sicilian
In this video, we will continue on the Closed Sicilian topic, and we will take a look at a famous game played by two grandmasters. Watch this video till the end to learn tips and hints about closed Sicilian setup.
11:44
Lesson 15: Dragon Setup for Black
Dragon setup for black is mostly for beginners, but anybody can play it. It is a setup in the sense that you can play black moves no matter what. This setup is called dragon because a chess player, long ago was looking at the pawn chain for black, and he realizes it looked almost like a dragon. In this video, you will learn about the dragon opening.
12:00
Lesson 16: Example of a Successful Dragon Defense
Now that you know the dragon setup for black, you are ready to play against any e4 opening. This game is meant to show you an example of a successful dragon defense. We can use the attacking ideas we know in our game.
12:39
Lesson 17: Rule of the Square and the Reti Study
The Rule of the Square is used to determine whether or not a passed pawn can queen when its own king does not support it, and the enemy king is chasing it. In this lesson, you will learn about the square of the pawn, and something called the rectile position or recti study is a chess endgame study.
07:59
Lesson 18: Under-Promotion
The concept of underpromotion epitomizes the beauty of chess. To be sure, underpromotion is exceedingly rare in tournament practice. What kinds of pieces can you Underpromote to? You got it: either a knight, a bishop, or a rook. In this video, I will talk about under-promotion in chess and give you series of examples to explain what underpromotion means.
04:25
Lesson 19: Good Pawns in Chess
In this video, you will learn the importance of pawn structure, how it affects the movement of your pieces and the game in general, what a good pawn structure is, and how it leads to a win.
07:42
Lesson 20: Weak Pawns in Chess
We have talked about good pawns in chess, now let’s talk about the bad pawns. A bad pawn is a pawn that another pawn can’t defend. In this video, you will learn about bad pawns, the different types of bad pawns, the bad pawns, examples of bad pawns, double pawns, and much more.
10:46
Lesson 21: Opposite-Colour Bishop Endgames
The opposite-colored bishops endgame is a chess endgame in which each side has a single bishop, but the bishops are located on opposite-colored squares on the chessboard and thus cannot attack or block each other. These endings are well-known for their tendency to result in a draw when no other pieces are present (but with pawns). In this video, you will learn about the opposite color bishop endgames.
06:38

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Mike Ivanov

Chess Master

Mike learned chess from the age of 4 and achieved his current title of Fide Master at the age of 20. He has been teaching for over 8 years now and wants to see the next generation of Canadian chess juniors surpass him :). In the future, Mike still wants to attain the International Master title and still plays competitively a few times a year. He tries to teach what he would have liked to be taught when he was growing up, in an entertaining manner based on stories, jokes, and games.

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