The Strategy Instructors Volume 1: Pawn Majority & Minority

Master Your Pawns and Master Any Position

Whether you’re on the attack or trying to just survive, the pawn structure will often dictate the best plan. This is the course that will teach you exactly how to understand pawn structures in the same way that grandmasters do.

Legendary trainer GM Efstratios Grivas brings you a masterclass on pawn structures. Teaming up with GM R.B. Ramesh, who presents the video, this course is a unique examination of how to really get the best out of your pawns.

Inside, you’ll learn:

♟️How to take future pawn structures into account when playing the opening
♟️Which structures give you the right to attack and the obligation to go on the defensive
♟️Why pawn structure dictates where your pieces should be
♟️How to use pawn breaks to maximum advantage
♟️Why the structure matters all the way into the endgame

b5 might look counterintuitive, leaving a weak c6 pawn behind, but the knight will soon hop to c4 and Black will be doing well

It doesn’t matter what your opening repertoire is, you’ll find relevant pawn structures within the course. GMs Grivas & Ramesh cover a huge variety of pawn imbalances so you’ll be able to understand structures that appear in your own games.

c5 opens the position for the bishop

Through 20 instructive chapters, Grivas covers everything you’ve ever wanted to know about pawn majorities. And a lot that you didn’t know you wanted to know. The course is packed full of instructive examples of perfect pawn play by World Champions Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Vishy Anand and other elite players.

Could you figure out how to get enough counterplay here?

Two of the Best Instructors in the World Team Up to Teach You Pawn Structures

GM Grivas, a FIDE Senior Trainer since 2005, is one of the most experienced coaches in the world. He has authored over 100 books and DVDs and has won the FIDE Boleslavsky Medal (for the best author) twice.

GM Ramesh presents the video for this course. He is also a FIDE Senior Trainer and currently works as a fulltime chess coach for his Gurukul Chess Academy in Chennai. He’s also trained some of the most elite chess stars in the world, including GM Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa and GM Daniel Naroditsky.