Stop ‘Em Cold! A Guide to Prophylaxis in Chess by GM Pepe Cuenca

Turn Chess Into A “Single-Player Game”
Where You’re The Only One Playing

…Drumming up all the threats and securing all the advantages — while the opponent can only wait for your inevitable breakthrough. A two-time Spanish youth champion will show you how.

Latvian-born legend Aaron Nimzowitsch crystallized this concept in 1925…

The world’s best trainers — Artur Yusupov and Mark Dvoretsky — turned the concept into a trainable skill, and preached it in every book they published in the past 30 years…

While world champions Tigran Petrosian, Anatoly Karpov, and Vladimir Kramnik built decorated careers and scored over 200 first-place finishes by doing this one thing to near-perfection.

It’s called prophylaxis. Or the habit of keeping an eye on your opponent’s plans — so that you can stop them cold and simultaneously push your own agenda.

Make no mistake:

Basic tactics and strategy are necessary foundations for chess success. But beyond the 1600, 1800, or 2000-Elo mark, where the competition starts to play with purpose and blunder less…

Prophylaxis Is The Rocket Fuel
Your Chess Needs

That’s because alert prophylactic play done right effectively takes the opponent out of the game.

Sure, they get their turn to play.

But after you’ve shut down every active plan the other player has — and they’ve been reduced to shuffling back and forth — you might as well play single-player chess!

And when you have total control of the position, choosing moves becomes easier. Time-trouble and blunders become less of a worry. Converting advantages becomes smoother. And winning becomes surer.

If you like the sound of that, then let Grandmaster Pepe Cuenca install this must-have chess skill onto your brain in no time.

He’s a two-time Spanish champion turned FIDE trainer. One whose energetic teaching style earned him a huge following worldwide.

And inside Stop ‘Em Cold! A Guide To Prophylaxis, Cuenca breaks down the art of prophylactic thinking into 101 MoveTrainer exercises and 9 hours of video.

If you spend even a small amount of time watching the videos and drilling 5 exercises each day, you can finish the course in no time. But what you’ll learn inside will pay dividends for as long as you play the royal game.

Here’s a sneak peek:

✅ The three simple “yes or no” questions which point you to the best move in nearly any position. Plus, the standard follow-up when “no” is the answer for all three.

✅ How to zero-in on direct threats and shut them down, so your positional trumps count for more.

✅ How to deny squares from the opponent’s pieces… while your knights and bishops sit on unassailable outposts.

✅ Structure-fixing maneuvers which turn the enemy pawns into low-hanging fruits you can pick off at your convenience.

✅ King shuffles which take the steam out of the opponent’s mating attack.

And many more.

But just to make sure you’re taking enough time to absorb every lesson, we’re giving you a full month to try out Stop ‘Em Cold!