Game Changer AlphaZero’s Groundbreaking Chess Strategies and the Promise of AI by GM Matthew Sadler, WIM Natasha Regan

Learn from AlphaZero’s Super Positional Style and
Stun Your Opponents with Next-Generation Chess

In Game Changer, Grandmaster Matthew Sadler and International Master Natasha Regan analyze AlphaZero’s games with its toughest competitor – Stockfish – and explain the amazing takeaways from these historic games.

Although originally only 10 games were released to the public, GM Sadler and IM Regan gained access to over 200 more for this project – unlocking a treasure trove of amazing insights that the world’s top players are using to improve their games.

In this new 2021 video course on Chessable, you’ll learn how AlphaZero was developed, how it ‘thinks’ and evaluates positions, and how it differs from traditional chess engines like Stockfish and Komodo.

But more importantly for your game, you’ll learn its incredible “human-like” techniques executed at superhuman level. Through 200 trainable lines – more than 25% more than the original version – you’ll learn how to:

♜ Attack the enemy king in a re-imagined way: Early rook pawn advances, total domination over square colors, and material sacrifices just to open up the position and allow the pieces to checkmate the enemy king: AlphaZero’s “straight-to-the-point” style will change the way you plan your attacks

♜ Build outposts on a whole new level: There are outposts, and then there are AlphaZero outposts! See how AlphaZero engineers outposts to give queen-like power to even the most minor of pieces

♜ Activate your pieces into hyperdrive: Learn how to sacrifice a pawn – or two – or three – to crack the position wide open and let your active pieces control the board

♜ Approach the opening like a superhuman: AlphaZero is very particular about its openings – it only plays the best of the best, and how it approaches them has led to new advancements in opening theory. Learn what openings work best and how to play them in a way that will quickly take your opponents out of preparation

Complex Computer Lines Made Simple

Obviously, revolutionary play is not going to be easy to grasp by itself. But with a legendary chess author and educator like Matthew Sadler in the classroom, even an intermediate player can learn new positional ideas that can inspire their games and change their approach to chess for the better.

Focusing more on key ideas rather than long, variation-heavy analysis, GM Sadler and IM Regan pinpoint the most instructive moments in AlphaZero’s games to show its novel ideas at work. With its ‘solve-the-puzzle’ approach, you’ll also learn to expand your calculation power and ability to see new resources over the board.

And with the Chessable 2021 video course, you’ll have to a highly organized course structure, allowing you to focus your learning on the areas you want to improve most. Chapters are clearly divided by topic, allowing you to target the ones you’re most interested in right out of the gate.

And with 15 hours of video instruction, you can truly see the positional ideas at work, expertly explained by GM Sadler and IM Regan. Although the in-text annotations are great, having GM Sadler and IM Regan show the plans laid out on the board brings the machine play to life, cementing your understanding easily.