Description
Master Your Technique - Maneuvers You Must Know (Download)
by Adrian Mikhalchishin
Chess encompasses several fundamental elements: opening theory, endgame theory, middlegame strategy, and the calculation of variations rooted in tactics. Within each domain, there exist optimal and logical methods for executing chosen maneuvers or enhancing positions, collectively referred to as "technique."
Each player needs to acquire fundamental classical knowledge of technical maneuvers. Through this video course, I provide the indispensable insights for your personal practice. Covered topics encompass crucial methods to enhance your piece coordination, strategies for creating and utilizing powerful pieces, typical approaches to generating pawn and square weaknesses, and effective methods for exploiting them. Additionally, the course delves into the technique of optimizing your play through strategic piece management.
- Video running time: 4 hours
- Interactive training including video feedback
- Database with 30 exercises
- Extra: Training with ChessBase apps - Play key positions against Fritz on various levels
Contents
- Blockade
- Kingside blockade
- Queenside blockade
- The Octopus blockade on d6 1
- The Octopus blockade on d6 2
- The Octopus blockade on d6 3
- The Octopus blockade on c4/c5 - Polugaevsky classics
- Opposite-colored bishops
- Passed pawns
- Powerful bishop needs an open diagonal
- Coordination of the pieces
- One weakness is sufficient
- Failing to coordinate the passive bishop
- Attacks
- Endgame essentials
- Transposing into basic winning pawn endgame
- King opposition
- Bishop and pawn endgames
- Rook and pawn(s) vs Bishop and pawn(s)
- Holding the draw
- Studying mistakes
- Rook endgames
- Rook endgames 2 - Protect the king from checks
- Rook endgames 3 - Protect the king from checks
- Rook endgames 4 - Rook activity through pawn sacrifice
- Rook endgames 5 - Rook activity through pawn sacrifice
- Studying mistakes 2
- Carlsen and the power of the knight
- The Octopus Knight
- Restricting the opponents' knight
- How to make two knights work as a team
- Finding the best spots for the knight
- Open file
- Timing
- Doubling Rooks on the open file
- Doubling Rook and Queen on the open file
- Create the open file
- Square control
- How to start square control
- Control
- Sacrifice for control 1
- Queen and bishop battery
- Sacrifice for control 2