Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition PGN Only

His first course was an instant classic – so now Arthur van de Oudeweetering returns with a fresh supply of easy-to-remember building blocks for players of almost every level.

Train Your Chess Pattern Recognition, the follow-up to Improve Your Chess Pattern Recognition, presents a wealth of strategic patterns and chess knowledge at your fingertips.

Key ideas and key questions – unlocked!

This course will help you answer common questions in your games that crop up repeatedly, like:

🔓 Three pawns for a piece?
🔓 Am I lost without a queen?
🔓 A queen or two rooks? How to choose?
🔓 When are two pieces enough to win?

Pattern recognition is one of the most important mechanisms of chess improvement. It helps you to quickly grasp the essence of a position on the board and find the most promising continuation.

Working through this course, and you will find the right move more often and more quickly!

In short, well-defined and practical chapters, IM Van de Oudeweetering presents hundreds of surprising middlegame themes.

Explore key ideas like:

🗝️ The Weakest Link;
🗝️ Opening up the center;
🗝️ Firing at the fianchetto;
🗝️ Dynamic exchange sacs.

To test your understanding, Van de Oudeweetering provides an abundance of exercises and we have adapted them into 259 trainable variations for you to work through.

Here is a course that will unlock your game – so, go on, pick up this key! 🔐

Arthur van de Oudeweetering (1966) is an International Master and an experienced chess trainer from the Netherlands.