Chess Bootcamp Beyond The Basics by Benjamin Katz

From Beginner to Battle Ready

You’ve learned the rules and the basic concepts, but if you want to level up and defeat better players, this course is basic training for your entry into battle.

Chess Bootcamp: Beyond the Basics prepares you with the most fundamental areas of the game you need to become a true warrior over the board: endgames, tactics, strategies, and openings. That means you touch on the basics of everything, giving you a rock-solid base moving forward.

By building on these four areas, your improvement will know no limits, but without them, you will forever be stuck at the dreaded beginner’s plateau.

What you’ll study:

🗡️Four fundamental endgame themes – mate with a king and queen, king and rook vs. king checkmate, king and pawn vs. king, and the rule of the square

🗡️The building blocks for tactical combinations and winning material – en prise, checkmate patterns, forks, and pins

🗡️How to improve your board vision – capitalizing on your opponent’s blunders, minimizing your own, and boosting your own defense

🗡️Pawn structures – learn which ones are good, which ones are bad, and what to consider before making a pawn move

🗡️Middlegame strategy and a basic opening repertoire – learn how to devise a plan and get to winning middlegame positions from the opening with White and Black

Based on 20 years of coaching experience

National Master Benjamin Katz has created this course as the culmination of decades of coaching students of all levels.

With so much experience as a trainer, including for one of the top chess teams in the United States, Katz has the ability to make the complex seem simple. In this course, complex themes are introduced gradually, with each concept building off the last learned.

He knows that what works for one student won’t work for another, and has distilled what he’s seen work for every student, the core knowledge that everyone needs to improve.

The examples are fresh, taken from his own student’s games, which you won’t find anywhere else. What does that mean for you? These are real-world examples of real-life learners that you will be able to relate to.