Miguel Illescas’s Complete Chess Course Novices by GM Miguel Illescas PGN Only Apr 30, 2025

Go from Newbie to Tournament-Ready —
This 8-Time Spanish Chess Champion Guides
You Through 10 Levels of Learning

Imagine learning chess from one of its most celebrated players. Grandmaster Miguel Illescas Córdoba conquered the royal game with 8 Spanish Championships. He reached a peak rating of 2640 Elo and a top-30 world ranking. Now, he’s channeling all that mastery into turning you from newbie to tournament winner!

Enter the Miguel Illescas’s Complete Chess Course: Novices.

It strengthens all 4 key areas of your game through 10 progressive levels. Each one builds on the last to ensure your steady, all-around improvement minus the overwhelm.

Picture you combining development and threats to crush the opening…

Starting with Qb3, White developed with
attack to gain a 4-vs-2 power play.

Ending the game in a flash with x-ray attacks, Greek gift sacrifices, and double checks…

Unable to block the check, Black
must walk into a mate in 4.

Dictating the flow of the game through simple piece placement…

Material is equal but white’s piece placement
gives him a decisive +3 advantage!

And wrapping up endgames with clockwork efficiency!

Convert this pawn-up ending ‘by hand’

This could be you inside Illescas’ Complete Chess Course.

He built the course on decades of experience coaching players from different walks of life.

He founded EDAMI in the 1990s — now a renowned chess school in Barcelona. Through online and in-person lessons, he has guided countless students to play their best chess.

Since 2004, Illescas has also been a FIDE senior trainer.

It’s an honor reserved only for the world’s top coaches. One which highlights his skill in preparing advanced players for elite competition, while…

Making Complex Chess Concepts
Easy to Use for Everyone!

Mirroring Illescas’ teaching methods, his course breaks chess into 4 key areas. Then it breaks these areas into 40 lessons.

Each lesson has been structured to raise your openings, tactics, strategy, and endgames… from level 1 newbie to level 10 tournament-ready!

Discover:

💯 The 4 novice mistakes that waste precious tempo in the opening. See exactly how to punish them in lesson 11.

💯 The secret to leaving your opponent in the dust. Launch a full-fledged middlegame attack, while they’re still tangled up in the opening phase.

💯 The key to making impossible “if only” tactics work. See this explosive prep in lesson 47.

💯 How to disarm blocks and parries with the simultaneous check. Beset from both sides, the king must move into another tactic you prepared.

💯 Enjoying an extra pawn or piece? Load up lesson 13 on strategy to convert your material advantage to a full point.

💯 The quick visual test on lesson 18. It tells you which side has the more active, more effective pieces. So you can ramp up the action when you’re ready, or steer clear when you’re not.

💯 Have a queen against a lone king? Master the 2 checkmating techniques in lesson 14, and avoid stalemating your advantage away!

💯 Along the way, you also sharpen your eye for key squares — giving you the foresight to maneuver and successfully promote your pawn.

There’s more inside the Complete Chess Course by GM Miguel Illescas.

By the time you complete it, you’ll have transformed into a stronger, more confident chess player.

One who can navigate openings, out-strategize and out-combine opponents in the middlegame — before sealing the deal in the endgame.