How to Create Complications: Turn Chaos Into Winning Chances

Dear Chess Friends!

In chess, not every position offers a clear plan. Sometimes you're worse, sometimes you're equal — but both players are just repeating familiar ideas. When that happens, creating complications can become your most powerful weapon.

In this week’s live workshop, we’ll look at how and when to intentionally break the balance — by shifting the pawn structure, provoking weaknesses, or sacrificing material to change the character of the game.

🗓 Date: 10/5
⏰ Time: 11 a.m. EDT, 4 p.m. UK time, 5 p.m. CET 

In this session, you’ll learn:

• How to break symmetry and balance in equal or worse positions
• Practical techniques: pawn breaks, piece sacrifices, structural shifts
• Why complications can unsettle even stronger opponents
• Classical examples from Alekhine, Tal, Kasparov and others 

Why should you attend?​
Knowing how to complicate a position and when is the right time to do it is an essential tool for every competitive player. It’s what separates passive defense from active resistance. It’s how you keep playing when others would give up. And most importantly, it’s a way to take control when no obvious plan presents itself.

Register now and receive the Zoom-link before the event! Your participation is absolutely free, you just need to register here: https://chesslance.com/masterclass/

See you at the workshop,
FM Viktor Neustroev