Your Chess Battle Plan

Learn to Create a Winning Battle Plan in Any Equal Position
with this Modern Guide to Chess Strategy

You’ve played the opening successfully, and maybe even part of the middlegame. But what about when you’re stuck in an equal position, with no tactics or threats in sight?

You need a battle plan. And Grandmaster Neil McDonald is here to show you how you can improve your pawn and piece play so you can engineer winning victories even in positions where it seems like you have to squeeze water from a stone. This accomplished author and coach of the English national junior team has helped students young and old improve their chess time and time again, and now it’s your turn.

You’ll start by learning how to coordinate your pieces effectively and to stop your opponent from doing the same. In fact, much of the course is dedicated to stopping opponent counterplay - for every stratagem you’ll learn, you’ll learn a prophylactic technique or counterattack to stop your opponent from carrying out their plan.

But you’ll be covering a multitude of strategic topics. In Your Chess Battle Plan, you’ll learn how to:

♞ Utilize your pawns in the most effective way possible. Learn how to design pawn storms that initiate a crushing attack on the enemy king, use pawn majorities to create passed pawns to promote, and stop enemy pawns from upsetting your plans
♞ Sacrifice material to gain the initiative. GM McDonald shows you when it’s appropriate to give up a pawn or piece to gain a positional advantage that can be converted into a win
♞ Steer the direction of the middlegame through smart opening choices. You’ll learn how to get the type of middlegame you want by choosing the right moves early on
♞ Recover from an inferior position. It’s one of the traits of any strong player - knowing how to turn around a disadvantageous position and eek out a draw or even a win when possible

And to learn all these concepts, you’ll see how grandmasters today implement these strategies in their own games. Though you will learn from the masters of old when appropriate, the majority of games are taken from the modern age, with most examples coming from 2018 and 2019. Going through games of top pros like Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi, you’ll see how the timeless thinking methods taught in the course are applied in world class tournament play.

So if you’re tired of getting stuck in your games and want to learn how to create a winning battle plan, look no further than Your Chess Battle Plan for the modern approach to chess strategy.