Did you ever wish you had a professional chess coach? A wise, experienced, and committed voice in your ear, guiding you through thick and thin on the way to chess glory?
This is a thought process that will be familiar to many aspiring chess improvers out there. Players who are ready to put in the time to improve their chess but run into a typical question: How exactly can I improve?
Well, this is your lucky day; this is the course to help you stop floundering and...
Guide Yourself Like a Grandmaster!
English Grandmaster and FIDE Trainer Neil McDonald is here to show you the fail-safe path to self improvement. A GM since 1996, FIDE trainer since 2017, and a regular coach of the England Junior team at international events, McDonald has been there and done that when it comes to chess coaching.
And, as the author of a multitude of popular books on openings, tactics, and strategy, he’s the perfect candidate to turn your training schedule into a detailed, disciplined, and comprehensive improvement regimen.
In this excellent course, GM McDonald delivers a masterclass on topics as varied as:
♚ How to outgrow and eliminate blunders
♚ How to train your tactical imagination
♚ How to develop your intuition
♚ How to diagnose positional errors
♚ And more!
Not only that, you’ll benefit from specific strategic lessons on how to shut a piece out of the game, how to wear down the opponent’s pawn structure and how to make the most out of your king.
It’s not all going to be easy. The course material covered ranges from the games of the author as a young player to positions that stumped Super GMs. But as GM McDonald says, if you’re prepared to put in the heavy lifting in training, you’ll soon see how easy the wins come rolling in come match-day.
And, crucially, throughout 13 thematic chapters and 266 trainable variations, GM McDonald is with you every step of the way, bringing you a crystal-clear battle plan to:
♚ Identify and rectify the source of your mistakes
♚ Improve your calculation beyond (conscious) recognition
♚ Learn to think schematically and make a habit of deep planning
♚ Break down endgames into digestible essentials
♚ Mercilessly analyze your own games (or as McDonald has them: “The windows to your chess soul”)
♚ Make the right opening choices for your chess style
While serving up deliciously complex and seriously instructive examples from a cornucopia of model games (ranging from Rubinstein to Carlsen, Ivanchuk to Anand, Caruana, and Ding to name a few) McDonald never fails to deliver a clear and detailed analysis of each and every variation, showing you all the possible continuations, blunders, and brilliancies.
Best of all,he shows the lesson contained within each example, and the path to arriving at the right answer. Thanks to McDonald’s patient and insightful explanations, you’ll feel your knowledge building from chapter to chapter as the author riffs on themes and patterns internalized from previous examples. The result? You can actually watch along as your chess understanding crescendos.
The genius of Coach Yourself lies in the invaluable lesson at its core: self improvement in chess is everything. No matter what your level, learn how to teach yourself, and the rest will follow. Make the best decision of your chess career, get Coach Yourself, and take the first step to becoming your own coach today!
