Beginner’s Guide To Chess Strategy by FM Midas Ratsma Aug 19, 2024 Video + PGN

60 Ways To Play Up To Your Potential —
In This Piece-by-Piece Guide
To Good Chess

Beginner’s Guide To Chess Strategy explains the positional ideas and trademark maneuvers of every piece. So you can take charge, even in unfamiliar positions… rally everyone to their best squares… and all but guarantee yourself a good game.

Not sure what’s going on?

Playing “safe,” reacting to threats is just asking to get punked!

Instead, we’ll show you how to take control, and proactively create winning chances… By bringing your knights, bishops, rooks, queen — everyone to full their potential.

Soon, you’ll look at this endgame…

Black has a passed pawn, but your
knight is ready to stop it cold. So…

And instantly recognize that the knight is the best blockader of passed pawns. So you exchange on f5 without hesitation, then plant your steed on e3.

You remove the only piece that can
challenge your knight… plant it on e3…
and play with an “extra” piece!

When you arrive at this seemingly equal middlegame…

What are those rooks doing on a closed file?

You see — not the “funny black rooks” staring at a wall — but the decisive rook-lift waiting to happen.

Preparing to smash the kingside — that’s what!

And after winding up with a queen and bishop…

The bishop-for-knight imbalance
seems minor, until…

You immediately start battering the diagonals, until something drops!

The queen and bishop crack
open the diagonals!

You’ll pick up 60 of these positional ideas and trademark maneuvers — categorized piece-by-piece and explained step-by-step by FIDE Master Midas Ratsma and Woman International Master Svetlana Sucikova.

If you’re hearing about Ratsma for the first time, he’s a coach and a Chessable author from the Netherlands.

Ratsma has published 9 courses and counting. Through which, he emphasizes pattern recognition and healthy playing habits. A hallmark that has earned him over 590 star-studded ratings.

Also joining you is Sucikova, a WIM representing Slovakia.

She reached her peak rating of 2249 FIDE, and earned the WIM title through small, consistent improvements — all while working full-time as a government statistician.

As a chess coach, Sucikova minimizes using other sources for lessons, and creates her own teaching materials instead.

So you avoid “overused” positions parroting what you already know, and enjoy…

Original Chess Exercises That Advance
Your Understanding Of The Game

As you solve Sucikova’s compositions for the first time, you’ll see them with fresh eyes and a “clean slate” So your decision-making skills enjoy an intense workout.

Then as you revisit the compositions with MoveTrainer, the moves — and the concepts they represent — imprint themselves deeper into your memory…

Until knowledge becomes skill!

Through 4.5 hours of video and 300 puzzles, you’ll learn:

🧠 The different types of pawns, plus the pros and cons they bring to your pieces.

🧠 Knight maneuvers for centralizing and seizing outposts. So you hit multiple targets in the opposing camp, while physically disrupting their coordination.

🧠 How to activate your bishops, while stifling their counterparts.

🧠 Wondering where to place your rook? See the Tarrasch rule in chapter 4 for answers.

🧠 Should you trade queens or avoid it? The 2nd chapter shows you the 2 critical factors to consider — and material balance is NOT one of them.

🧠 When making an enemy piece retreat gains a tempo — and when it doesn’t.

🧠 Key piece combinations and the scenarios where they shine.

And those are just to name a few.

We can tell you more about the course’s contents. Or we can show you how game-changing it is — the confidence it inspires — when you can realize the full potential of your pieces.