Training track

Strategy

Weak squares, open files, the bishop pair, prophylaxis and long-term planning, the ideas that guide grandmasters’ decisions.

  • Weaknesses and outposts
  • Open files and diagonals
  • Prophylaxis
  • Planning

Courses in this track

All 12 lessons online Club & rated

Chess Strategy: Imbalances and Plans

How to decide what to do when there is no tactic · by Kapilash Chess Academy

Learn to read a position the way strong players do: list the imbalances, then play to make them count. The fight for the centre, development and the initiative, playing where your pawns point, majorities and passed pawns, the blockade, colour complexes, restriction, opposite-coloured bishops, static against dynamic advantages and transforming an advantage. Every example and all 131 exercises have been checked with a chess engine.

12 Lessons14 Diagrams131 Exercises
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