Grandmaster Training Advanced Chess Fundamentals by GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov

Make Grandmaster Thinking Habits Your Routine

Grandmasters know what to look for.

They are immediately drawn to the most important features on the board. And starting with better candidate moves, they calculate and plan better, too.

Grandmaster Training: Advanced Chess Fundamentals instills in you the same mindset GMs use to analyze any position in a variety of possible scenarios.

Brought to you by GM Aleksandr Rakhmanov, a regular world top 100 player and professional chess coach, this course will develop the advanced fundamental skills you need to steer your own eyes to the right areas and improve your decision making.

Through hundreds of exercises, you’ll practice and internalize such skills as:

♟ Development and “anti-development.” Even strong GMs make opening mistakes. Keep cool against unknown lines and objectively analyze the position to find a sensible move – and learn how to spot even subtle mistakes your opponent makes and capitalize

♟ Piece activation. Learn the ‘inverse piece order’ trick for deciding what pieces to improve first – and practice selecting the right ones to activate and when with concrete calculation exercises

♟ Prophylaxis. Learn to identify what your opponent wants in any position and stop it – and know when you can ignore it and play forcing moves of your own

♟ Pawn moves. Timing a pawn break or pawn push can be a win-or-lose decision. You’ll hone your instincts and calculation abilities for when the time is right – as GM Rakhmanov will explain, it depends on your piece activity first!

♟ Endgame technique. GM Rakhmanov shows you how you can apply the same positional considerations in the middlegame apply to the endgame – except one key principle

And much more. The variety of topics covered in this course will develop an all-around approach to the game that helps you think more like a master player.

These exercises are not easy by any means – but by taking your time and continually solving them, you’ll gradually develop the vision of a grandmaster. After all, they’re the same techniques that boosted GM Rakhmanov’s rating to nearly 2700 Elo in classical chess and beyond 2700 in blitz.

Start training like a GM – get Grandmaster Training: Advanced Chess Fundamentals today.