The Fundamentals 1 Build Up Your Chess by Quality Chess & by GM Artur Yusupov

Master Chess on Your Own — with This Award-Winning “Complete Trainer Substitute”

Build Up Your Chess is a series of self-training programs, designed to help raise your game from under-1500 to 2100 Elo — even if you have no access to a coach. The series won the 2008 Boleslavsky Award for instruction, and part one of the Fundamentals is now on Chessable with video!

Brought to you by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov.

Yusupov is a 3-time World Chess Championship Candidate, with a peak rating of 2680 FIDE and a peak ranking of world #3.

Now a FIDE Senior Trainer, he combines his immense knowledge — with the Russian training methods of his late mentor and the “greatest chess trainer of all time,” Mark Dvoretsky.

His Mastery of the Methods of the Russian Chess School was very helpful

“Artur’s systematic and professional approach to analyzing games was the decisive factor in having him as my second in the World Championship Finals in New York 1995 and Lausanne 1998. His mastery of the methods of the Russian chess school was very helpful… I am still very grateful for everything that Artur did for me.”

— Viswanathan Anand, 5-time World Chess Champion

Yusupov also noticed how the overwhelming majority of chess books target only beginners or masters — leaving club players to bridge the gap, often without any aid from a trainer.

That’s why in 2003, Yusupov started a 3-year training program in his academy for 3 rating groups — under-1500, under-1800, and under-2100.

This way, his students receive level-appropriate instruction, which will have an immediate positive impact on their skills.

Since then, positive feedback and suggestions poured in — convincing Yusupov to refine it into a 9-part series that…

Gives Your 6 Essential Chess Skills
a Well-Rounded Boost up to
Expert Level

All while avoiding skill imbalances, which negate your progress in other areas and drag you down.

Through 17.5 hours of video, the former world #3 will build up your tactics and strategy, calculation, positional play, opening and endgame technique.

Then more than 530 MoveTrainer® exercises turn your new knowledge into lifelong skills through repetition — while the chapter tests and point system show your ‘sticking points.’ So you can fix them.

Simply put, this course contains the entire improvement feedback loop… which you can switch on anytime, anywhere with Yusupov at the helm.

Dive into the rip-roaring, tactical side of chess and learn:

🏋️‍♀️ How to calculate short, precise variations and reduce blunders with mate-in-two puzzles.

🏋️‍♀️ Weave basic tactics into combinations — forcing the opponent to follow your lead, all the way to mate or a material advantage…

🏋️‍♀️ And if the combos don’t work yet? You’ll turn up the pressure with active moves, and provoke weaknesses without sacrificing material.

Learn to attack successfully minus the risky,
nerve-wracking sacrifices in chapter 18

The strategist in you also gets an upgrade, as you discover:

🏋️‍♀️ The 5 factors that impact the strength of your pieces. So you can ensure everyone performs as close to their peak as possible.

🏋️‍♀️ The two proven methods for converting your material advantage — and which method to use based on your extra material.

Got 2 minor pieces for a rook and pawn?
Use conversion method #1 in chapter 13

🏋️‍♀️ The 3 techniques for seizing an open file, and the ultimate goal once you’ve taken over one.

🏋️‍♀️ And how to tell a real weakness from an “academic” one. So you can focus your firepower on targets you can take down.

Plus, you’ll also learn the accurate way to play the technical endgames, which often come up at your rating level.

🏋️‍♀️ From the 3 types of opposition between kings — plus the different ways to win this standoff.

🏋️‍♀️ An arsenal of pawn combinations and promotion tactics to end the game in a snap.

After chapter 21, you’ll too can moves like 50…Rb4!!,
creating a sweeping phalanx of pawns