To Trade or Not to Trade by GM Nikola Nestorovic

Let’s Make Sure Those Inevitable
Exchanges Happen On YOUR Terms!

Do you ever trade pieces willy-nilly, only to realize you’re missing your most valuable piece 5 moves later?

Annoyed by wholesale swaps, which leave you with very little material to make something happen?

Confused when the engine suggests equal exchanges that don’t make sense?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then To Trade or Not To Trade will give you the clarity you need.

It’s a chess strategy course by Grandmaster Nikola Nestorovic which teaches you how to exchange to your advantage…

So That After “Takes, Takes, Takes,”
You Come Out On Top!

A simple “capture and recapture” can simultaneously get rid of your worst piece and the opponent’s best piece — transform the pawn structure to your favor — or wipe out enemy counterplay when you’re ahead.

Count on Nestorovic to show how you can do all of the above and more.

Nestorovic has over 20 years of experience playing pro-level chess. As a FIDE trainer, he also coaches over 30 students around the world — with many breaking the 2400-Elo barrier.

Inside To Trade or Not to Trade, Nestorovic walks you through dozens of thematically organized instructive game fragments, featuring strategic exchanges that:

🏆 Set up a one-sided “bishop vs. knight” scenario, where the opponent can only wait for your hammer to drop.

Radjabov – Svidler, Russia vs The World 2002
After 3 key trades, Black gets a strategically
won “knight vs bad bishop” match-up

🏆 Convert a promising middlegame to a straightforward, risk-free win in the endgame.

🏆 Clear the board of unnecessary pieces. So your bishop pair can rip through the defenders from all angles.

🏆 Seize an open file, so your remaining rook or queen can invade the enemy ranks.

🏆 Turn up the mental and positional pressure… by switching gears from a chancy attack to a steady grind that’s near-impossible to lose!

And more.

You’ll also be shown:

🏆 When exchanges go wrong. Plus plenty of examples on how to punish players, who are too eager to swap pieces.

Azmaiparashvili – Carlsen, FIDE World Cup 2005:
The future world champion was too eager to further
simplify the position and paid dearly for it

🏆 How to “read” the pawn structure, and tell at a glance which pieces to trade and which ones to keep.

🏆 And strong-arm tactics that bend drawish opposite-colored bishop endings to your favor.

Nestorovic explains all of the above in almost 8 hours of video — while 171 MoveTrainer® exercises recap the must-know themes from the course until you can’t get them wrong.

So even in the heat of battle, your pattern recognition for winning trades will point you in the right direction.

We’re confident that To Trade or Not To Trade will not only give you clarity whether to keep a piece or swap it off. It will also empower you to set up exchanges that magnify your advantage.