Mastering Chess Middlegames by NM Bryan Tillis

High-level middlegame technique requires a multitude of skills. Knowing what to apply and when – and exactly how – is what makes the master.

Yet few books cover the comprehensive skill set of the middlegame like so many opening and endgame manuals…

But now you have the ultimate middlegame manual on Chessable, with Grandmaster Alexander Panchenko’s Mastering Chess Middlegames.

This book, a product of one of the elite Russian chess schools, is a tried-and-true gateway for intermediate and advanced players to take their middlegame technique to the next level.

In this comprehensive course, you’ll learn how to:

❖ Improve your positional maneuvering to accumulate a decisive advantage. It’s not always time to attack; learn how to position your pieces to roll up minor advantages into game-winning ones

❖ Attack “until the end.” Learn to judge the right time to attack and execute with perfection. Since an attack gone wrong often costs the game, you’ll practice executing attacks from start to finish thoroughly – with plenty of ‘what-if’ variations to dial in your calculation skills

❖ Defend against attacks with precision and “economy”. Using the principle of economy, you’ll learn how to defend against an attack precisely with the fewest amount of pieces possible – so you can use your others to generate table-turning counterplay

❖ Master the art of prophylaxis. Sometimes an attack can only succeed by ensuring your opponent has no counterplay. Learn to sense the right time for prophylactic moves

❖ Capitalize on your advantages. “Winning a won game is one of the hardest things in chess”, said Emmanuel Lasker. Learn to prove the 2nd World Champion wrong with thorough exercises on Russian middlegame technique

❖ Outplay your opponent in equal positions. Learn to find and execute plans that require utmost accuracy from your opponents to break the equality and seize an advantage

A Modernized Edition of an Essential Russian Classic

Though once reserved for Russian speakers of an advanced chess level, this masterful translation by premier publisher New In Chess has been optimized by Chessable for maximum learning in the modern age.

With over 750 exercises among twelve chapters, intermediate and advanced players alike can benefit from the 2022 edition. In each section, key lessons are highlighted for study, with additional supporting exercises available to ensure your calculation and understanding is dead-on.

And with subject matter of this caliber, it’s invaluable to have an instructor of equal caliber to present the concepts clearly. That’s why USCF National Master and veteran chess coach Bryan Tillis’ stellar video presentations are a perfect addition to this course.