Feature Announcement: Mastery Chess Lessons Are Here
Chess.com is thrilled to announce the release of our "Mastery" series of chess lessons.
On New Year's Day 2019, we released an update to Chess.com/lessons, providing over 130 videos with interactive challenge questions to help players advance from the beginner level to the level of a 1200 player. With the release of mastery, we are expanding our lessons to cover numerous topics for intermediate up to advanced-level players.
The Mastery lessons are broken up into seven categories: Openings, Strategy, Tactics, Endgames, Attacking, Master Games and Miscellaneous. While the other sections in lessons were meant to be more linear (from New to Chess through Advanced), Mastery is meant to be more self-guided based on the interests, strengths and weaknesses of each player.
Inside each Mastery category, you will find a range of courses to choose from.
Mastery lessons come from three different sources:
- NEW: We are working on adding new, original content to Mastery prepared by the best teachers, coaches and players.
- VIDEOS: We are taking our most popular videos (from the videos section of Chess.com) and putting them into courses with challenges!
- MENTOR/OLD: Most of the old Chess Mentor lessons have been ported over to Mastery. While these do not have videos, they do have challenges.
The Mastery section will be ever-expanding as we work with more video and content authors to create new material and port existing video series into our lessons format.
All Mastery lessons are unlocked with a 
membership.
Check out these existing topics in Mastery:
- Spicy Openings: The Evans Gambit
- Attack with the Catalan!
- Nakamura's King's Indian Defense
- London System for the Busy Chess Player
- Play the Budapest Gambit!
- Understanding the Colle-Zukertort
- Now What?
- Practice the London System
- Understanding the Sicilian Dragon
- The Scotch Mieses Theory and Middlegame
- Exploiting Typical Opening Errors
- Exploiting Opening Errors 2
- The Benoni and its Tactics
- Exploiting Opening Errors 3
- Slaying the Sicilian: Kingside Storms
- Winning with the Chigorin
- Crush with the King's Gambit
- The Classical Dutch
- Chess Psychology
- Get Better at Bullet
- Knights vs Bishops
- When Computers Go Wrong
- Silman's Lessons in Strategy (1)
- Silman's Lessons in Strategy (2)
- Master Your Technique
- Roots of Positional Understanding
- The Art of Exchanging Pieces
- Strategic Errors
- Play Against Bobby Fischer
- Weak Color Complexes Explained
- Master Strategy
- Deep Concepts Explained
- Checkmate Patterns You Should Know
- Advanced Tactics
- Step Up in Tactics
- Intermediate Tactics
- Tactics from the Old Masters
- Silman Teaches Tactics (1)
- Chess Traps and Miniatures Part 1 - Quick Knockouts
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Forks
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Pins and Skewers
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Double Attacks
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Discovered Check & Double Check
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Deflecting the Defender
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Clearance Sacrifice
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - In Between Moves
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Interference
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Misplaced Pieces
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Back Rank
- Champion Tactics with GM Wolff - Smother Tactics
- Combinations of Mikhail Tal
- The Technique of Calculation
- Combinations of Alexander Alekhine
- Shockers!
- Clever Escapes from Common Mating Attacks
- Combinations of Mikhail Tal Part 2
- Combinations of Mikhail Tal Part 3
- Master Tactics
- En Prise Please!
- Mastering the Endgame
- Super GM Rook Endings
- Complete Scotch #1:The Mieses Endgames
- Bishop versus Knight (Part 1)
- Knight versus Bishop (Part 2)
- Knight Endgames (Part 1)
- Knight Endgames (Pt 2) - Both Sides Have Knights
- The Drawing Zone, Part 1
- The Drawing Zone, Part 2
- Capablanca's Endgame Masterpieces
- Master Endgames
- Opposite-Colored Bishops
- Exclusively Checkmates
- Essential Checkmate Patterns
- Chess Traps and Miniatures Part 2- Checkmates
- How To Sacrifice Your Queen
- Essential Attacking Plans
- The Essence of the Initiative
- Premature Attacks on the King
- Same Side Pawn Storms
- Sacrifice on h6
- Attacking Pawn Chains
- Kasparov's Greatest Combinations
- Games That Changed Chess History
- Immortal Games
- World Champions at their Best (1)
- World Champions (2): The Lasker Years
- Hikaru Plays to Win
- The Funniest Chess Games of All Time
- The Most Amazing Chess Moves
- Bent the Great
- Sensing the Danger - Examples from My Games
- How to Make a Comeback
- Expect the Unexpected
Do you have particular themes and topics you want to see covered in Mastery? Let us know in the comments.
