Strategy Wednesday – October Focus: Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame
with GM Ioannis Papaioannou
GM Ioannis Papaioannou continues his acclaimed Strategy Wednesday series this October with one of the most fundamental and enduring strategic concepts in chess — Pawn Majorities. This edition, Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame, is designed to help players master the art of recognizing, creating, and exploiting pawn majority advantages while understanding how to neutralize your opponent's majority structures across all game phases.
With his trademark structured and clear teaching style, GM Papaioannou will guide you through the essential strategic principles, positional understanding, and technical precision required to excel in both creating favorable pawn majorities and converting them into decisive advantages. A special emphasis will be placed on understanding the dynamic evaluation of central versus flank majorities, when to advance your majority versus when to restrain it, and how to transition pawn majority advantages from the middlegame into winning endgames.
You will discover that pawn majority concepts appear across virtually all chess openings and structures, with the first two lectures examining how pawn majorities are established in the opening and leveraged in the middlegame through carefully analyzed practical examples, while the final two lectures will focus on endgame technique and the precise conversion of majority advantages. Understanding these strategic patterns will dramatically improve your ability to evaluate positions correctly and execute long-term plans across your entire repertoire.
As in previous editions, the camp will take place over two Wednesdays — 22.10.2025 and 29.10.2025, with two sessions on each day. After each session, participants will receive 10 test positions designed to reinforce the key concepts from the lectures. The final PGN file will include all test positions with detailed solutions.
Strategy Wednesday is part of the Modern Chess Academy, which means that all Academy members receive free access to the live lectures and the complete digital product released afterward.
Technical Details
✅ Dates: 22.10.2025 and 29.10.2025
✅ Training Platform: Zoom
✅ Coach: GM Ioannis Papaioannou
Program
22.10.2025 Paris Time | New York Time
17:30 – 19:00 | 11:30 – 13:00 – Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame – Part 1
19:30 – 21:00 | 13:30 – 15:00 – Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame – Part 2
29.10.2025 Paris Time | New York Time
17:30 – 19:00 | 11:30 – 13:00 – Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame – Part 3
19:30 – 21:00 | 13:30 – 15:00 – Pawn Majorities - From the Opening to the Endgame – Part 4 21:00 – 21:30 | 15:00 – 15:30 – Q&A Session with GM Grigor Grigorov and GM Petar Arnaudov
As with all Modern Chess camps, participants will receive: – Recordings of all lectures – PGN files with all material covered – Free access to the digital product based on the four lectures
This camp is your opportunity to master pawn majorities — a strategic foundation that separates strong positional players from those who struggle to convert advantages. Learn to identify, create, and convert pawn majority advantages with the precision and understanding that will elevate your strategic mastery to the next level.
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