The Chess World‘s video courses have gained an outstanding reputation in a very short time. Featuring top coaches like former World Junior Champion GM Alex Ipatov and IM Valeri Lilov, they cover a lot of topics rarely spoken about.
Each course strengthens your play and gives you a secret weapon to surprise and destroy your opponents with. Topics include How to Dominate in Open Positions: GM Mikhalevski (peak 2611 Elo) teaches you the skills you need to control space, increase activity, push your opponent back and overload them with attack after attack. Whereas many courses just show you what to do in a specific position, these rules will help you in any open position!
Then you have GM Misa Pap explaining how Grandmasters evaluate positions. Subtle principles that tell masters how to get long-term edges that snowball into an overwhelming advantage. This course contains the secret to the powerful play of GMs.
How about GM Tiberiu Georgescu’s Grandmaster Level Psychology? Knowing how to stay strong mentally and get a psychological edge over your opponent is hugely important in chess. Just look at how Kasparov used to dominate his – world class – rivals. It was his supreme awareness of the kind of psychological tricks revealed here.
And that’s just a few of the rating boosting lessons you’ll learn from The Chess World Mega Bundle, available together for the first time in a great value pack.
The Bundle Includes The Following Courses
Strategic Planning – IM Valeri Lilov
Strategic planning is one of the most important skills a chess player can learn. It is well known that playing with a bad plan, is much better than playing with no plan at all. If you want to succeed at chess it is crucial to start coming up with a good plan. That’s where the problems come for 95% of chess players.
The Art of Defense – IM Valeri Lilov
All chess players want to learn how to attack, but they don’t realize that the reason why their ELO isn’t 2200 yet is because of their poor defensive technique, not the attacking skills. The truth is, the ability to attack and to defend are equally important.
Dominate with Queen’s Indian Defense – GM Jan Werle
The Queen’s Indian Defense is a very powerful weapon for those who think that a draw against 1.d4 is not enough. Many world champions employed this opening with great success. Bobby Fischer, Garry Kasparov, and recently Magnus Carlsen achieved many brilliant victories with a help of the Queen’s Indian.
Grandmaster Level Middlegame Understanding – IM Valeri Lilov
It is not a secret that majority of chess games are decided in the middlegame. Nevertheless, many club players prefer to spend their time on the openings, tactics and endgames completely bypassing such an important element of chess as the middlegame.
Grandmaster Level Psychology – GM Tiberiu Georgescu
Many of the strongest Grandmasters agree that psychology is one of the most important factors in chess. It is not a secret that strong GMs can identify their opponent’s emotional state, read their fears and predict plans. Some grandmasters are able to not only manage their own emotional state, but also to identify and exploit the emotional state of their competition. Needless to say, the ability to do that can often decide or dramatically alter an outcome of the game.
Dominate King and Pawn Endgames – IM Valeri Lilov
King and Pawn Endgames are probably some of the most important and fundamental endgames in chess. Many amateur chess players deceive themselves thinking that because there aren’t many pieces left on the board, king and pawn endings are simple to play.
Grandmaster Level Calculation – GM Daniel Gormally
In this video the England’s top grandmaster Daniel Gormally, a calculation expert, shares the insider’s secretsof how one should proceed about calculating variations in the most complicated positions that often arise over-the-board. GM Gormally breaks down the entire calculation process into few simple bites that virtually anyone can understand and master.
GM Gormally does a superb job explaining in great detail, backing up with Grandmaster chess examples, how one should proceed about calculating the moves.
Dominating Open Positions – GM Victor Mikhalevski
In this 3 hour video course GM Mikhalevski will show you how the most elite chess players think and play in open positions. GM Mikhalevski will share his expertise by analyzing the games of world’s best players such as Magnus Carlsen, Baadur Jobava, Ian Nepomniachtchi, etc.
After carefully studying this video course and going through the exercises, your understanding of open positions will greatly increase. That, in turn, will convert into a healthy gain of rating points.
Winning with Positional Sacrifice – GM Victor Mikhalevski
Positional sacrifice is a very delicate, yet very powerful technique that mostly advanced chess players perform. Some of the greatest chess minds in history of the game employed the positional sacrifice as the weapon of choice to win tournaments, matches and even World Championship titles.
Number one chess player and the reigning World Champion Magnus Carlsen is no exception. He proves over and over again, against the toughest competition that the positional sacrifice is something that can blow up an otherwise equally looking position and score a crucial win.The amateur players typically DO NOT understand the relative value of chess pieces well enough and prefer to simply keep the material.
The Art Of Attacking Chess – GM Sipke Ernst
In this 3 hour long video course, GM Sipke Ernst, a strong attacking player himself, will teach you the art of attacking chess. He goes in great detail analyzing the attacking techniques that players such as Magnus Carlsen, Vishy Anand, Mikhail Tal, Sergey Karjakin, Boris Spassky, and Veselin Topalov have successfully used to win games.
GM Ernst will show exactly how Grandmasters think in complex, razor sharp positions, when everything depends on a single move. In such positions, any little inaccuracy can cause a defeat. It’s like walking on the minefield, along with your opponent, and waiting for someone to make a single wrong step.
Grandmaster Level Positional Understanding – GM Mikhaylo Oleksienko
“What is the main difference between a Grandmaster and an amateur? It is the understanding of positions on a very fundamental level, or what’s called the positional understanding.”
A good positional understanding allows to:
- Rapidly evaluate any kinds of chess positions
- Instantly come up with a winning game plan
- Assess which pieces should be left alone, and which need to be exchanged
- Determine which pieces need to be improved and how that can be done
- Find weaknesses in the opponent’s position and exploit them
The problem that most amateur players face nowadays is the lack of positional understanding. Most players work on tactics, openings and endgames but fail to improve perhaps the most important part of the game: the Middlegame. That’s quite illogical, taking into account that the majority of chess games are decided in this stage.
Dominate Rook Endgames – GM Alex Ipatov
GM Alexander Ipatov does an excellent job explaining complicated concepts in an easy to follow manner. While, the most chess books and DVDs will only teach you the move order and nothing else, Alexander in his 3-hourlecture goes through 36 most critical rook endgame positions that any player from an amateur to a Grandmaster must know.
In this DVD, GM Ipatov teaches you how to think and how to make right decisions in the endgame. Not only you will learn the right moves, but also you will get a high quality Grandmaster’s explanation of why that is the case. It will help you to structure your thinking and you will be able to play not only these but also other similar endgames much more precisely and effectively.
After watching this DVD, you won’t have to worry about rook endgames anymore. You will learn the most effective PLANS and IDEAS that can be used to win or draw positions that you previously considered drawn or lost.
Grandmaster Level Evaluation of Positions – GM Misa Pap
That’s a good strategy if you are already 2400-2500 rated. If not, then intuition is a very dangerous thing to trust. Most under 2200 rated players can achieve dramatically better results if they evaluate the positions using the same algorithm over and over again.
To help you with mastering the evaluation of positions we have invited GM Misa Pap, who is sharing over two decades of position analysis expertise in this video course.
Tactics Fundamentals – IM Valeri Lilov
It is no surprise that TACTICS is the key to winning chess games all the way up to 2200 elo. If you are under 1800 rated, tactics is absolutely must-study element! Many chess players don’t have the foundation that they can build upon. Fundamental tactics is a HUGE part of that foundation. Not only you need to understand tactical elements, but you also should be able to apply them in your games.
Dominating Closed Positions – GM Mikhalevski Regular
Closed position is perhaps one of the most complex types of positions at chess. Many amateur players choose to stay away from those positions simply because it appears crowded, over-complicated and plain unfriendly.
Majority of club players have difficulty coming up with a game plan and gain the initiative in such positions. And that’s not surprising.
The Art of Checkmate – IM Renier Castellanos
IM Renier Castellanos will teach you everything you need to know about checkmating your opponent’s king from typical positions including fianchetto, opposite side castling, same side castling, attacking an uncastled king, attacking a king in the center and much more. It took IM Castellanos years to structure those things. Previously, he was only sharing his secrets with a select few of his students (many of which became very strong players themselves). Now, these groundbreaking ideas are available to you!
Armed with this knowledge and following IM Castellanos advice you will always be on a lookout to start an attack. Your play will become much more aggressive, and you will start winning many games by force.
Winning Exchanges – IM Valeri Lilov
IM Lilov has developed a winning methodology which helped him to reach 2500 FIDE and defeat many strong Grandmasters. The foundation of that methodology is making “good” exchanges. Valeri believes that all exchanges have either short term or long term consequences. And the truth is those consequences may play a decisive role.
By learning how to make good exchanges, you almost certainly will have a decisive edge which could be enough to beat most under 2200 level players!
Many players think that making good decisions when it comes to exchanges requires 2300, 2400 or even 2500 ELO. IM Lilov certainly doesn’t think so. Any player can make winning exchanges if he understands a set of simple yet very important principles. Those principles allow to precisely determine whether to exchange pieces or not. Armed with those principles you will become an overall better player from opening to the endgame. And that’s exactly what you will learn in this new “Winning Exchanges” video course.
Openings Course for Beginners – IM Valeri Lilov
In this brand new 6-hour course, IM Lilov provides you with the most essential opening resources. The course is structured in such a way that you get 3 types of repertoires for both colors: ‘tournament’, ‘basic’ and ‘sparring’. The tournament repertoire maximizes your victory chances and should be used for competition.
The basic repertoire is for those who like keeping things simple. The sparring repertoire is for training purposes, to grow as a chess player. The course comes packed with the priceless opening advice from a world renowned coach with over a decade of experience. You just can’t go wrong with this!
Even if you have an absolute zero opening knowledge after studying this course you will raise your opening preparation level to a solid club level. This is by far the quickest opening-preparation shortcut for beginner/intermediate players.