The Complete Chess Bundle for Beginners to Advanced Players

Most beginners have problems improving at chess because they lack the foundation needed to build upon. Those beginners tend to study the wrong things in the wrong way. They spend countless hours on openings and tactics, while what they really need is getting the fundamentals straight. Chess training doesn’t have to be hard and unpleasant. International Master Valeri Lilov teaches you everything you need to know to become a club strength player from the ground up in the most efficient way. This is by far the quickest shortcut you can take to go from absolute zero to club player strength!

• Access 23 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
• Understand how chess pieces move
• Avoid losing games due to blunders, strategic mistakes & other oversights
• Master the fundamentals such as forks, pins, development, basic end games & more
• Straighten out your basic chess knowledge & skills

Success or failure, death, or glory… it all rests on the decision you make now. Better make it a good one. Croatian coach GM Davorin Kuljasevic (2591 Elo) has just completed Improve Your Decision Making – a 10-hour course laser-focused on the crucial topic of decision-making. Drawing on years of experience coaching club players rated between 1600 and 2200, Davorin has identified the 9 types of decisions that players have to make in real games. He explains the errors in thinking that lead to mistakes at these critical junctures and gives you easy-to-follow processes for getting them right.

• Access 20 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
• Understand the long-lasting impact of early decisions & come out on top in the central battle
• Fnd hyper-accurate moves when attacking so you get the win your play deserves
• Avoid automatic moves like Nf3 & Bc4 and find the strategically strongest plan
• Learn when to apply general principles & when to break the rules if you want to be successful

In over 10 hours of premium video training, IM Ratkovic gives you a guided tour of this easy-to-learn system for dominating the opening as white. Play 1.d4 and 2.Bf4, and then no matter what black does, apply IM Ratkovic’s strategic blueprint to enjoy a solid enough edge to handle any opponent's strength. The London System is a dangerous yet easy-to-learn white opening you can learn in a couple of hours and play for the rest of your career. In fact, giants like Kramnik and Carlsen adopted it to avoid the dangerous computer prep of guys like Caruana and Naka!

• Access 24 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
• Krush the King’s Indian: Forget the boring idea of building a ‘space advantage’ on the queenside & instead use the deadly opposite castling attack for easy wins
• Dominate the Dutch: Exploit the one weakness in black's position that most miss
• Smash the Slav & Queen's Gambit Setups: Place your pieces on the right squares, thrust your pawn to e4 & blast open the kingside with h4-h5

Picture yourself playing a decisive game. Wouldn’t it feel great coming up with a brilliant plan and winning the game with near-perfect execution? It sure does! The quickest, and by far, the easiest way is “systematic training.” That is learning theme-specific motifs and schemes before applying them in your games. In this course, Grandmaster Bryan Smith reveals the 21 most important positional elements responsible for nearly every win or loss over-the-board! Once you master those, you will never see chess the same way again.

• Access 30 lectures & 10 hours of content 24/7
• See the plans, move sequences, defensive maneuvers & attacking patterns in your mind before they happen
• Read the position like a seasoned GM & easily come up with game-winning plans and ideas
• Experience what “effortlessly making strong moves” really feels like, saving time on the clock & reserving your brain-power
• Always be one step ahead of your opponents, predicting every move they make
• Master all 21 positional elements & start applying it in your games

In this 15-lesson video course, you are going to take your endgame understanding to the next level. You will learn the specific and very effective methods that professional chess players use to achieve endgame mastery. You probably noticed that all the top grandmasters are also excellent endgame players. And that’s NOT a coincidence. A great number of games are decided in the endgame. Grandmasters meticulously examine endings with one side having the upper hand and learn how to save or convert them into a win. From a practical point of view, those are the most important positions.

• Access 13 lectures & 8.3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn 50 endgame building blocks that you can use to construct a win
• Improve your endgame intuition & pattern recognition
• Master the endgame strategies to get a strong competitive edge

1.e4 is the most popular first move in chess. The chances are, you’ll see 1.e4 in nearly half of your games with Black! Sure, you can respond with 1…e5, Sicilian, Caro-Kann, or French… but learning all these lines and variations would turn out very time consuming and tedious. In this course, FM Yuriy Krykun gives you 2 full repertoires against 1.e4 based on Czech Pirc and an exceptional setup in Alekhine’s Defense! It is reliable and can be played well no matter your style…by tacticians and positional players alike. This course is built with a heavy emphasis on practicality and simplicity. No need to memorize the mainline theory for the lines you’ll likely never face in your entire chess life!

• Access 14 lectures & 6.11 hours of content 24/7
• Learn GM Memedyarov’s strong surprise weapon for Black against White’s mainline in Czech Pirc
• Know Magnus Carlsen’s sneaky move order in Alekhine’s Defense to cut down the insane amount of theory & avoid White’s most dangerous responses
• Understand the choice of two systems in Alekhine’s Defense & when to use each one
• Reduce White's possibilities in Czech Pirc, steering the game towards the positions you want
• Learn powerful antidots against the sidelines & off-beat variations in both Czech Pirc and Alekhine’s Defense

So you want to play 1.d4 as white but have no time to hit the books and learn a bunch of theory… Sound about right? FM Yuriy Krykun has just finished a fantastic repertoire course, emphasizing simplicity and avoiding memorization of theory. Instead, you’re given simple sidelines and sneaky move-orders that’ll take your opponent out of “book” as early as move 4 and force him to think for himself. These are the lines FM Krykun plays himself, yet he has generously spilled all of his secrets in 10.3 hours of HD video training that’ll leave you feeling confident and ambitious as white in all your future games.

• Access 25 lectures & 10.3 hours of content 24/7
• Stun your opponents with the Hanging Pawns attack for cursing the Queen's Gambit
• Take the sting out of the King's Indian
• Sidestep the complex Slav theory with the Anti-Slav Line

Have you ever heard the famous saying “the pawns are the soul of chess”? Well, it’s wrong. The pawn structures are the soul of chess. Understanding pawn structures used to be the privilege of titled players and a complete mystery for the rest but not anymore. In this course, IM Bryan Solano Cuya demystifies the pawn structures once and for all. He reveals everything you need to know about all the 11 most common pawn structures from Carlsbad Formation to Maroczy Structure! For each structure, you’ll learn the typical plans, weaknesses, attacking motifs, piece placement, and long-term goals.

• Access 11 lectures & 11.1 hours of content 24/7
• Know exactly what direction the game will evolve, so you can pick the best plan
• Learn the proper way to play the minority attack, so that you can pick one of the two setups & keep your opponent guessing about what’s coming
• Play a lightning-quick attack that leaves your opponents hopelessly defending in the center
• Discover how IMs & GMs skillfully avoid the isolated pawn positions
• Always have an edge in Stonewall structure by positioning your minor pieces & recapturing with the correct pawn
• Learn the easiest way to play against the Maroczy Structure
• Add instant pawn-structure recognition skill into your chess toolbox

It doesn’t matter which openings you play. Every single opening has dangerous, venom-filled traps that can lose you the game in a single move. And as a chessplayer… nothing’s worse than the embarrassment of resigning before move 10. That is why IM Mat Kolosowski created this entire course on every trap in chess theory. No matter what openings you play, there’s something IM Mat Kolosowksi will point out to help you sidestep the dangers, improve your tactical skill, and improve your overall tournament performance.

• Access 21 lectures & 6.2 hours of content 24/7
• Laugh at the London System, one of the most solid openings in chess
• Learn a Knight Sac that shatters the Caro Kann
• Know one of the hidden dangers of the Queen's Gambit opening

This Bootcamp is designed to fill the gap in your tactical knowledge and train you to see winning tactics within seconds. IM Mat Kolosowski trains you in the key themes you need to finish off opponents and avoid throwing away the wins you "know" you deserve. In the course, he covers the basics like forks, pins, skewers, discoveries, and much more advanced tactics and combinations.

• Access 16 lectures & 7.3 hours of content 24/7
• Learn the basics like forks, pins, skewers & discoveries
• Visualize & calculate sacrifices that would make even Mikhail Tal drool
• Bamboozle opponents with devastating threats of pawn promotion to tie them up
• Learn the 5 best tracks & techniques of swapping down into winning endgames

Tactical ability is by far the most powerful universal weapon a chess player can possess. It is one of those “super skills” that you apply automatically, after each and every move. IM Mat Kolosowski compiled over a decade of tactical experience in a single 4-hour crash course. He arms you with an in-depth understanding of 8 tactical themes for successfully outplaying your competition. You will actively participate in the training. It includes an on-the-spot analysis that is helpful for your pattern recognition and visualization. Mat also reveals tactical training secrets that are used primarily by 2600- and 2700-rated GMs as well as the structured approach for increasing your tactical ability.

• Access 9 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Dramatically increase your pattern recognition
• Develop speed at cracking the position
• Modify the position to use tactical motives against your opponent
• Break down tough defenders even in “quiet” looking positions with no obvious tactics
• Develop rock-solid confidence when you know tactics
• Unleash your potential & become the chess player you meant to be

Most beginners have huge problems with opening preparation. They either spend too much time on a single line trying to memorize it till moving 35 or simply get lost in never-ending sub-variations. Sounds familiar? You don’t need to go over 5 to 6 four-hundred page books or absorb 100+ hours of video lessons to play solid openings. All you need is understanding basic opening principles and 2 to 3 reliable opening lines at your disposal. That’s it. In this brand new 6-hour course, IM Lilov provides you with the essential opening resources. The course is structured so 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.

• Access 7 lectures & 6 hours of content 24/7
• Learn an opening without the need to spend weeks on opening preparation
• Find & play the strongest opening moves even if you encounter unknown lines
• Improve at chess by using the sparring repertoire
• Set up an opening repertoire that fits your style, level, & goals

This is a true beginner’s course that will take you from just ‘knowing the game’s rules to a competitive player who can hold his ground against more experienced opponents. This course is also perfect for those who have played for a while but haven’t really studied chess and want to get a clear understanding of some of the basic strategy elements and tactical patterns.

• Access 8 lectures & 3.43 hours of content 24/7
• Learn key opening principles that any chess players must understand
• Play an opening with zero opening theory
• Know the best openings to play for beginners
• Know the most important middlegame principles
• Practice the must-know tactical patterns
• Learn how to find tactics in your position
• Learn the secrets of endgame play

What if you could skip the theory and jump straight to your favorite position? You've practiced at home where you start from positions, where you know the plans and feel very comfortable. With the Modern Defense, you can do just this. IM Milovan Ratkovic has just released the ultimate “quickstart” course on the Modern, a 10-hour mastermind covering move orders, attacking plans, and strategic blueprints you can implement in your own games.

• Access 24 lectures & 10.12 hours of content 24/7
• Respond with force against all flank attacks
• Approach the opening thinking "Shall I adopt this plan or that plan?"
• Learn several attack plans you can adopt to terrorize the White's King
• Get great, comfortable positions as black...no matter what White tries