Overview
11 Most Important Chapters To Master Positional Chess
A Step-by-Step Guide to Help Dramatically Improve Your Positional Chess
You play chess for some time and know by heart all the tactical motives and how to attack but still, you are not 100% happy with your game.
You might wonder why you are not able to perform similar tactics and attacks against any opponent or in any position.
The answer to your question is simple: You need to improve the position of your pieces before you can perform tactics or attacks.
The great player Paul Morphy stated it very accurately: “Help your pieces so they can help you.”
So, how do you improve the position of your pieces successfully? In order to answer this question, we need to know what is a positional move.
Positional chess is characterized by the moves that make your position more active. You need to place your pieces in the best possible positions (Positional Chess) and then the time for tactics or attack will come. This will give you the chance to establish tactics and attacks.
Strong players are able to “read” any position and find the best moves for their pieces instantly. The tactics or the final winning attack will come naturally. In general, there are 3 different categories on how to improve your position:
- Improve the position of your King
- Improve the position of your pawn structure
- Place or regroup your pieces in better places.
This course will help you grow your chess understanding. In the first chapters, you’ll learn how to identify the best placement for each chess pieces separately and how to archive it in your practical games. You can follow a simple but effective chess thinking system that will help you to find the best moves every time. You also need a lot of examples; highly illustrative examples are included in each lesson. You’ll better understand the theoretical lesson and be able to apply the knowledge directly to your games after studying this chess course.
What You Will Learn:
- Understand Chess Like a Strong Player
- Develop Your Chess Thinking System
- Understand the openings in a better way
- How to evaluate the position property; most players cannot do it
- Advance Positional Ideas and Motives
- Dramatically Increase Your Pattern Recognition
- Develop Rock-Solid Confidence
In Total:
- 13.2 Hours of video lessons
- 211 Illustrative Theoretical Examples
- 50 Exercises For Practice
About the Authors
IM Mateusz Kołosowski is an International Master from Poland. He is a multiple Polish youth championship medalist.
In 2010 he took 5th place in European U-18 Championship. During the course of his chess career, Mateusz won many international tournaments.
Apart from being a player, he is also a chess coach with experience working with students from more than 20 countries.
So far he helped a few of them in obtaining their own international titles. Mateusz has also performed live commentary of Polish and European Rapid and Blitz Championships.
IM Valeri Lilov (better known as Tiger Lilov) is a professional chess coach and lecturer renowned for his personalized approach to training students and professional players from all over the world.
Having been an active tournament player, he has won many international open tournaments and championships including the European Individual School Chess Championship U10 (Moscow, 2000) and the Kulaga Memorial International Open (Minsk, 2007).
Angelo Kesaris is a professional chess coach for the last 20 years and FIDE National Instructor. He is an active chess player with an International FIDE rating of 1900 ELO.
He started teaching chess in primary schools, organizing lessons in chess clubs, private classes, online teaching, and chess course creator. Angelo quickly made a name for himself by publishing insanely practical strategies that newbies can use to grow their chess rating to the top.
