Try Out the Most Comprehensive Strategy Course on Chessable
Most chess players know basic strategic concepts - swapping off your weak pieces for your opponent’s strong ones, exploiting weak squares, creating passed pawns...
But how do you actually design and execute those plans in your games?That’s the question tackled by
Grandmaster Johan Hellsten in his highly acclaimed textbook
Mastering Chess Strategy.
With this definitive guide to strategic play, the former Swedish Chess Champion and European Team Championship gold medalist has brought numerous ambitious chess players from intermediate to master.
And now that his masterpiece is on Chessable, he’s looking to continue his mission of elevating
your chess game in a whole new way.
Through more than
200 informational lines and
800 practical exercises in the main course, you’ll learn how to improve your pieces, create weaknesses in your opponent’s position, engineer successful attacks, improve your pawn play, and much more. It’s easily
the most comprehensive guide on chess strategy
anywhere.
And to give you a sample of the authoritative manual on all things strategic, GM Hellsten is offering up
10 lines from the main course in this free version.
What’s in the Free Course?
In this sample lesson, you’ll learn how to exchange weak pieces for your opponent’s stronger counterpart. The focus in this lesson: getting rid of bad bishops.
Of course, recognizing the weaknesses is the easy part - creating and executing a plan is a different story. What might work in one scenario may not in another. So, you’ll see how the grandmasters do it in three different situations.
Just like in the main text, GM Hellsten breaks up a long strategic sequence from a master game into smaller parts so you can
learn the steps one by one. Then, you’ll be able to see the whole sequence together with detailed annotation so you can understand how it was put together.
With these 10 lines, you’ll get a feel for the main course, which is truly an encyclopedia of chess strategy know-how. By repeating a variety of positions over and over, you’ll build a reference library in your brain that can be called upon in any of your games.
Try out the most comprehensive chess strategy guide today, and if you enjoy it, make sure to check out the main course:
Mastering Chess Strategy.
