Need a break from your opening preparation or endgame drills? Looking for some inspiration in your games? Or maybe you’re just curious to learn more about the greatest chess players who ever lived?
Take a Mini-Trip through Chess History
Yasser Seirawan’s masterpiece
Chess Duels is now on Chessable, and it’s packed with so many amazing stories, he just had to offer a free peek!
If you’ve never read
Chess Duels, it’s well worth a break from your usual chess studies. As one of the strongest players in his day, Grandmaster Seirawan rubbed elbows and chess pieces with the best of the best.
Bobby Fischer, Mikhail Tal, Viktor Korchnoi, Garry Kasparov - Yasser has met and played with them all.
And in
Chess Duels, you’ll get an
in-depth look into what these chess legends were like both over the board and away from it.
You’ll hear amazing stories of Bobby Fischer’s disappearance from professional chess. You’ll get a behind-the-scenes scoop of Garry Kasparov’s split from FIDE and his reunification with them. You’ll hear about lifelong feuds between the chess greats, impressive triumphs over the board, and even Soviet assassination attempts - no kidding!
A History Book on Chessable?
Chess Duels is not only a history, it’s a collection of GM Seirawan’s games with the world champions. With
descriptive annotations from Yasser himself, you can really understand the psychology behind the moves and what it’s like to play with a world champion.
He explains the context of the games, the reasoning behind his moves, the what-if scenarios he calculated, and how he applied (or misapplied!) chess concepts at the highest level. If you’ve ever wondered how the world’s top players think,
Chess Duels is a window into the mind of a grandmaster.
And after reading through the game, you can then apply what you learned in exercises on MoveTrainer®, allowing you to remember the key ideas that defined the games, so you can use them in your own.
Included in the Free Version:
In this free version of the course, you’ll read about one of the greatest chess players ever to wield the pieces -
Anatoly Karpov. In addition to some wild anecdotes, you’ll get a breakdown of one of Seirawan’s most dramatic games with Russian chess legend - “the one that got away.”
You’ll also get a sample of one of the
30+ hours of video footage in the main course, which is bursting with eloquent explanations from Yasser on the games, and
exclusive content found nowhere else.
Take a break and step into the exciting history of chess with this free version of
Chess Duels.