How To Outpace The Opponent In The Opening And
Win The Game In Dazzling Style
Do you daydream about winning in stunning miniatures you'd remember and cherish for the rest of your life? If you answered "yes," then you'll love this addition to our library of FREE courses.What kind of chess player doesn't get goosebumps while replaying the vintage attacking games of Paul Morphy, Mikhail Tal, or Garry Kasparov!?
Many of their games might be brief — not lasting more than 30 moves. Yet the audacious sacrifices and mind-blowing tactics they uncorked have been admired for centuries.
But while the ideas behind their best moves are grand and intricate, you can boil down their winning formula to two straightforward steps:
Step one, bring your pieces into play as quickly and efficiently as possible to build a huge lead in development. Step two, snowball your strong start with precise aggression to win truckloads of material — or even deliver mate.
Simple, right? But execution is
everything.
So in this short and sweet opening lesson,
Swedish chess champion and
Grandmaster Johan Hellsten shows you...
How To Pull Off
The Same Winning "One-Two" Combo,
Step By Step
Inside, Johan serves up
40 minutes of video and
7 model games by top grandmasters and international masters, including himself.
Every game is a masterclass on how to outpace and outgun the opponent in the first two dozen moves.
And to make sure you get the maximum benefit from every example, Johan not only delivers on-point analysis...he also breaks down the proven strategies and "rules of thumb" to score a knockout in the opening.
Here's what you'll learn:
🧠 The two opening blunders even PROs make, which slow down their development with disastrous consequences. PLUS — how to capitalize on these errors and gain a winning edge before the game has even warmed up.
🧠 How to use positional threats to hold the opponent's VIP hostage. They must choose between giving you a strategically won position, or permanently exposing their king to your checkmating threats.
🧠 Did your opponent just grab a pawn before castling? These 4 key moves pin the enemy king in the center like a sitting duck, while your entire army gets in position for target practice.
🧠 You should avoid trading pieces when you have more pieces in play, right? Not quite! Game one shows you how aggressive exchanges can double or triple the attacker-versus-defender ratio to your favor.
🧠 Tempo moves that crank up the speed of your development to the third gear — enabling you to strike hard and fast while enemy pieces can barely defend.
🧠 And much, much more!
Your Chessable team also took the game's highlights and turned them into
15 MoveTrainer® exercises, which you can revisit again... and again... and again until the strategies and techniques inside the course
become a part of your game.
Enjoying this free lesson? Check out GM Johan Hellsten's FULL course Mastering Opening Strategy
