Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: The Middlegame – GM Josh Friedel

These Simple “This or That” Drills Sharpen
Your Inner Detector For Beginner
Mistakes In The Middlegame

Once your pieces are out, the middlegame begins. You need a plan, you need a strategy and you need to know how to neutralize your opponents’ ideas. GM Josh Friedel is an experienced coach and knows exactly what kinds of mistakes beginners make – so he knows exactly what you need to improve.

Following up on his successful Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: The Opening, GM Friedel walks you through the most common middlegame errors and teaches you how to avoid them. And not only that – you’ll be perfectly placed to exploit the mistakes that your opponents make.

This course covers five key topics that you need to bring your middlegame up to the next level:

🎯Board Awareness – you’ll learn to keep track of the pieces on a messy board and how they’re working with each other
🎯Tactics – most games are decided by relatively simple tactics, and this plays an even bigger factor at the beginner level. You’ll drill the most common tactics to boost your pattern recognition
🎯Attacking – hunting down the king is fun, but you can easily go astray – with this course you’ll learn to ruthlessly conduct attacks on the king
🎯Consolidation – converting extra material into the win can be difficult but GM Friedel will show you how to avoid getting swindled
🎯Positional – GM Friedel focuses on the beginner mistakes that more advanced players may take for granted and gives you a solid foundation to build your chess knowledge on

Just like Volume 1, the course features a simple but effective system for improving your decision making process. You’ll be given two options and have to choose the best way forward. Of course, you’ll get lots of them wrong, but GM Friedel explains in detail exactly why some moves are wrong and why other options are superior.

“We have a tempting discovery at our disposal by moving our c4-knight. Should we deliver check with Nd6 or grab a pawn with Nxe5?”

“Should we start with Qe8 or snapping off the rook with Qxf8?”

GM Friedel is an active coach with over 20 years of experience under his belt. As a player, he peaked at 2562 and has beaten Hikaru Nakamura and many other strong grandmasters.

This course will help you improve your ability to make plans, avoid errors, build good habits and take that jump from a beginner to a serious club player. Are you ready to make the jump?