Top chess trainers recommend solving endgame studies daily as an important part of the learning program at all levels. This enjoyable method is aimed at improving one's creativity and out-of-the-box thinking. It is highly efficient in polishing your calculating and tactical skills, enriching your arsenal of tactical weaponry not to mention the obvious: deepening your endgame understanding and keeping you sharp for your upcoming challenges. All these virtues are essential in shaping a complete and original player; no less so than the knowledge of opening theory and middlegame strategy. Quite a few top grandmasters were also captivated by the charm of composing endgame studies themselves. For this article, I have selected miniature studies created by leading players. Miniatures use not more than 7 pieces to express mainly tactical chess ideas in an artistic, purest form with a unique solution and move order.
In this webinar, GM Mihail Marin examines how Magnus Carlsen and Ulf Andersson convert an advantage. After the training session, you will be aware of the typical methods of playing in positions with an advantage. The webinar is a preparation for the Modern Chess Workshop - Converting an Advantage - Theory, Practice, and Psychology.
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In this training session, the former World Champion GM Ruslan Ponomariov will share his understanding of the French pawn structures. During the event, he will mainly focus on the positions arising after 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.e5. Even if you are not playing the French Defense, understanding the French structures will improve your play in closed positions.
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In this webinar, GM Boris Avrukh examines the main ideas and new developments in the line 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 0-0 5.Be2 d6 6.Be3.
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The Modern Makagonov - Complete Repertoire against King's Indian Defense
Complete Repertoire against King's Indian Defense
In this webinar, the Latvian grandmaster Arturs Neiksans provides you with a fundamental understanding of the Rossolimo Sicilian which arises after 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5. During the session, besides the coverage of the arising pawn structures, GM Neiksans makes a theoretical overview. After completing the training, you will be able to start playing the Rossolimo.
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Rossolimo Variation against the Sicilian - Complete Repertoire against 2...Nc6
GM Mihail Marin provides an overview of one of the most popular lines in the Bogo-Indian Defense - 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2. In this training session, Marin explains some of the most important pawn structures and theoretical lines in this opening. He also speaks about his general approach to the opening preparation.
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The FIDE World Cup is one of the most exciting tournaments. Try to get into the shoes of some of the best players in the world. In the exercises below, you need to find the best plan.
In the exercises below, you will find 17 examples from the Fide World Cup. The tests are quite hard but very instructive, some of them were found by the players, but many were missed by the strongest players in the world. My advice is to think at least 3 minutes on each exercise.
Many interesting endgames were played in the Fide World Cup. I am presenting you 11 challenging position where your task is to find a cunning way to win or draw.
The French Isolani is one of the structures that have intrigued me most since my early teenage years back in the '70s. I used to play 1.e4 and meet the French with 3.Nd2, when 3...c5 4.exd5 exd5 frequently gave me headaches and had Kortschnoj, a specialist of this line, as my greatest hero.