Modern Chess presents the second installment in the Grivas Chess Lab series: The Principle of Two Weaknesses. Following his definitive work on Endgames with Opposite-Colored Bishops, GM Efstratios Grivas provides a systematic examination of chess's most reliable winning principle through 68 carefully selected and extensively annotated games.
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Modern Chess is releasing a new digital course based on GM Ioannis Papaioannou’s Strategy Wednesday camp on the topic of Color Complexes – From the Opening to the Middlegame. This course provides structured material on one of the most important strategic themes in chess: how to understand and play around weak squares of a specific color.
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The November edition of Strategy Wednesday, led by GM Ioannis Papaioannou, is now available as a digital product! This course offers a comprehensive exploration of symmetrical positions, focusing on their strategic and dynamic subtleties.
Through 4 in-depth lectures, GM Papaioannou explains how to handle these unique positions across all phases of the game—opening, middlegame, and endgame. You’ll learn how to recognize key structures, exploit imbalances, and seize opportunities to gain the initiative.
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The Strategy Wednesday camp on Converting an Advantage is now available as a digital product, offering a comprehensive and practical guide to improving your ability to capitalize on better positions. This product includes all the video lectures from the camp, along with a PGN file that complements the training sessions. In total, you’ll receive 6 hours of instructional video and a PGN database featuring 56 carefully selected files.
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Soon after the release of the highly successful course Converting Positional Advantage, IM Boroljub Zlatanovic completes his survey with a brand new database - Converting Material Advantage.
This course is made to navigate you through the process of converting. You will find important advice, techniques, and principles in the course and feel much more comfortable in situations with extra material. By the way, some different examples are also presented – these are about illusion. The side with material advantage went wrongly for the position where the opponent with a material deficit would play for a win. Even in such situations, we explained patterns to win.
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Welcome to Converting Positional Advantage, a comprehensive chess course designed to take your strategic understanding to new heights.
This course, led by IM Boroljub Zlatanovic, focuses on strategic play in scenarios where one side possesses a stable positional advantage. Throughout the course, you will learn not only how to convert these advantages, but also how to accumulate more advantages, create weaknesses in your opponent's camp, and limit your opponent's potential for active play or counterplay.
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Converting an advantage is one of the most critical skills for players of all levels. One can often hear chess players saying, “I spoiled a completely winning position”. Actually, the advantage does not disappear by accident. The current workshop will help you discover the profound reasons behind the technical mistakes.
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One of the things that impress me in Carlsen's play when in top form is his apparent invulnerability. No matter how much time his strongest opponents dedicate to preparation against him, no matter how dangerous (or simply bad) his positions look at times, the reigning World Champion proves the ability to hold his own, like a cats' reflex to fall on its feet. One reason for this is Carlsen's strong sense of danger, which often leads to unexpected or apparently modest moves, parrying the threats or anticipating the dangers before they even become real.
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