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Master The Middlegame With Chess Structures Chessable Course Presented By Magnus Carlsen’s Coach

Master The Middlegame With Chess Structures Chessable Course Presented By Magnus Carlsen’s Coach

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It's a common problem among chess players: You played a good opening and developed all your pieces. But what do you do next?

If you're among the many players who struggle to find the right plan in the middlegame, it's because you're missing the secret key to quickly reading any position in just moments. Master the most common plans with GM Mauricio Flores Rios' renowned Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide, now reviewed and presented by Magnus Carlsen's coach, GM Peter Heine Nielsen!

Would you like to take your first step to mastering the middlegame? Then check out the free sample of the course, with 46 minutes of free video lessons!

The middlegame is arguably the most complex part of chess. After all the pieces are out, how do you play to win? 

In his widely acclaimed book, Rios explains how the secret to finding the right plan lies in the pawn structure. The author carefully selected 140 games to demonstrate the right approach to the 28 most common pawn structures in chess.

Rios made it his top priority to create the most practical guide to chess strategy out there. He achieved this by selecting straightforward games and clearly presenting their key ideas, tactics, and patterns. The resulting work is considered by many coaches and masters as mandatory reading for every student who wants to improve their strategic play.

And now, what was already great got even better! Pawn Structures was reviewed and supplemented by GM Peter Heine Nielsen, the man who helped GMs Viswanathan Anand and Carlsen win nine World Championship matches.

Aided by the latest and strongest chess engines, Nielsen brings a fresh perspective to the course. He then explains everything you need to know about the most important pawn structures in detail through more than 30 hours of video.

Here are all the structures you'll learn how to navigate in this course:

  • The 1.d4 d5 family, including openings such as the Queen's Gambit, Slav, Queen's Indian, Caro-Kann, and more
  • The open Sicilians, including structures such as the Scheveningen, Dragon, Hedgehog, Maroczy, and others
  • The tricky Benoni family, where you'll also learn how to handle the Benko Gambit
  • The elaborate King's Indian family and the multiple structures that can arise from it, also including Ruy Lopez structures
  • The French family, which deals with the complex strategical battles that follow not only after the French Defense but also in many Sicilian, anti-Sicilian, English, and Catalan openings
  • Other minor but still important structures that you might encounter in your games

You'll also have access to the 50 test exercises hand-picked by Rios with detailed solutions to practice what you learned—along with the 600+ additional trainable exercises with annotations we included. 

Are you ready to start your journey to master the middlegame with the help of pawn structures? Then click here to try out Chess Structures - A Grandmaster Guide for free!

Which pawn structures would you like to master? Let us know in the comment section below!

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