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Attack Like a Viking - Master 18 King-chasing strategies with a GM
Course
149 episodes
(6 hours 18 min)
(6 hours 18 min)
Creators
GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes
There’s one thing that brings a smile to every chess lover’s face – Mikhail Tal sacrificing his Queen!
Many take inspiration from it. They daydream of sacrificing the Queen to finish the game so they can get claps and that ‘wow’😲 from their friends! It’s all great.
However, attacking isn’t just about seeing tactics and tossing pieces out of the board in the name of sacrifice.
See moreA lot more goes into a successful attack – from assessing the pre-conditions to bringing your army to keeping the momentum to finish off the opponent eventually.
There are methods and principles you can use to consistently get attacking positions and end the game with a beautiful finish.
That’s what this course covers. You’re going to learn:
✅ How to plan an attack?
✅ The fundamental rules and concepts you need to know while attacking.
✅ How to identify the ideal situation before you can launch an attack.
✅ The common mistakes majority of the players make while attacking and how to avoid them
This course will equip you with the fundamentals of destroying an enemy’s defenses and launching dangerous attacks.
Below are the positions from the course:
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What you'll learn
- How to plan an attack?
- The fundamental rules and concepts you need to know while attacking.
- How to identify the ideal situation before you can launch an attack.
- When to avoid starting an attack?
- How to refute an unsound attack from your opponent?
- The common mistakes majority of the players make while attacking and how to avoid them.
Course Content
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149
Episodes -
270
Quizzes & Trainings -
3
Attachments -
6 hours 18 min
4.9
Students give this course an average of 4.9 out of 5 stars.
Advika
I LOVE THIS COURSE* I DID 100% OF THE TESTS *
Ar Ray
Great course sir .I Can proudly say that I completed 99% of the test section successfully and found the ideas very quickly just by looking at the test examples.The left 1% I will revise the section again .
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks for your kind words!
Keep going!
Ar Ray
Great course !.What do you recommend to do after watching this course .I mean how to excel in this skill even more ?I just failed to solve just one test section and I am going to revise that and 2 more sections ..Thanks for the great course .
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks for your kind words.
You will master this skill with experience when playing many attacking games.
Also, you can check 100 commented attacking Games on the website - will be very useful for sure too.
avi dhayagude
very nice course.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks a lot!
Beth Butler
I am happy
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
I am happy either :-)
Fred Parnon
I find GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes to be an excellent online teacher. This course, like his other courses, takes a thorough, step-by-step approach, with clear examples, tests, and explanations, while also employing an appropriate level of humor (and sometimes downright silliness) to keep it fun and interesting. I believe that I learned a lot from this course about attacking. I expect this will be true for other students as well. Highly recommended.
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Dear Fred,
The best part of today was reading your nice feedback!
Thanks so much for your kind words and I am so happy to know this course helped you to attack better :-)
Good luck!
Ashok ng
If you don’t know how to ATTACK you have to watch this course. Super!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks for the nice words, Ashok!
Bill Putnam
I simply love this course! Fantastic!!!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks Bill for simply very kind words :-)
I am glad you enjoyed it, Good luck!
Kyrollos Toma
it's very important to learn this course
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Attacking is indeed super important topic!
Keep going!
Giorgos Kechagias
Brilliant and helpful course to raise ratings with helpful inshights! Thanks a lot!!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks Giorgos,
It's exciting to know you enjoyed it!
Keep going :-)
Giorgos Kechagias
Brilliant, instructive course with understandable and helpful insights! Thanks a lot!!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thank you!
Varvara Usoltseva
Thank you a lot!! I went from not being able to solve the positions clearly at the beginning to solving them all with ease at the end of the course! My attacking skills are now great. Wait for my success story, I will crush my opponents like a viking }:->
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
I marked your words and waiting for the success!
Thank you so much for this kind words, I appreciate it a lot :-)
Aarav Katukuri
great!!!!!!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks!
Pulkit Nohani
A brilliant course!! Thank you so much. I am able to win 80% of the games by using the techniques in this course. Very Instructive course too
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
80% is great! Thanks for sharing.
Shaurya Bagdia
A very good course I hope my attacking skills will be better. Do I have to put the position on the board?
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks for the kind feedback!
If you have any questions, please use our forum :-)
Mia Jiang
great course !
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Merci :-)
Petrisor Gavrila
Very instructive, like usual and easy to understand.Right on target! Great job, again!!!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thank you so much for your kind words!
I am happy you enjoyed the course.
Kimemia Mzii
I am officially a VIKING!
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Haha :)
Bjorn? :)
Satyam Sawapnil
Thanku so much!! chessmood for this amazing course
GM Hovhannes Gabuzyan
Thanks Satyam :-)
Yashwant The Great
Excellent course! With great examples and more techniques. I won some blitz games with my friends by applying this. After Just seeing two sections. Thank you!
ChessMood
Nice!
Do your friends hate us? :)
Nashon Komba
Thank you for the attacking concepts now I feel like master. I hope that in my next tournament I will be able to apply all the attacking concepts that I have learnt in these lessons. thank you very much
ChessMood
Great! Let us know about the results.
Henry Singletary
This course was awesome stuff! This course was a great follow up to the Fearless Warrior course. GM Gabuzyan makes attacking look so simple. He explains everything so easy in a way that anyone can understand.
ChessMood
Thank you very much!
Satyam Sawapnil
Thanks!
ChessMood
Thanks too!
Sai Krishna
Amazing and interesting
ChessMood
Thanks!
Dhw aj
Brilliant course! It's so easy to see attacking games but when it comes to our games where we attack.. pfffffff
ChessMood
Hopefully, soon, pffff will be replaced with "yeeeeeeh"
Dhw aj
Yeah soon, as I have the chessmood membership
Brighton Tan
Very good except in Section 17 in Prophylaxis in a messy position, at 1:48 he said Rxe5. Qxf6 was way faster because it is mate in 2 while Rxe5 was mate in 3. The rest are perfect anyways.
Adheet Sequeira
Brilliant
ChessMood
Thanks! :)
Dave Koch
This is one of the best courses here, I think. And it puts sleepy ol' Art of Attack to shame.
Akiba Rubinstein
Great course! I'm rated >2300 online but feel I reinforced my knowledge. This kind of content is way more digestible than books such as The Art of the Attack by Vukovic and provides you with all the concepts you must know to make better decisions in your games. If you are rated above 1500 online (and already watched the simplified version of this course), then you can't go wrong.
ChessMood
Thank you very much for a beautiful review and kind words!
Cycling chess
Good all things
but you need to show answer on test too some position i stuck over 20min try manytimes but wrong also we really don't know right move
That's pity to jump next puzzle with waste time
GM_Avetik Grigoryan
Thanks for the feedback, my friend.
We'll add "hint" and "solutions" buttons soon.
ChessPlayer Win
Super
ChessMood
😎
Alan Marcuse
Just great. Thank you!!
ChessMood
Thanks Alan!😎
Furiosi Alessio
Amazing course!! When you finished it, you have a lot of idea to use in your games!
ChessMood
Yes, I had ideas, haha 😁😁😁
Thanks for kind words.
Faraday Pawn
This is an amazing course! So many wonderful ideas presented, excellently prepared, presented and with real depth and breath!
I only wish I am getting these attacking positions in my games! :D
ChessMood
Thanks! I am sure sooner or later you will attack and get this scenarios.
Ibratbek Jumaniyazov
Perfect
ChessMood
Thanks!
Massimo Cucca
Hello, i wanted to give you some feedback.
After watching Tactic Ninja i thought that i have never seen this level of quality in a chess video-course.
After watching Attack Like a Viking, i think it should be more similar to Tactic Ninja.
When i watched Tactic Ninja, it was so challenging that i couldn't do more than a section in a day. Every secton was not just acknowledging the patterns, but training hard to use them in practice.
This is what i am missing in the Attack Like a Viking course. I didn't need someone to tell me that in opposite side castling you can pawn storm the opponent, i already knew. I need more examples to practice that knowledge.
ChessMood
Thanks for the feedback, Massimo!
I tried not to overwhelm with examples and make it 20 hours.
Massimo Cucca
I would enjoy those 20 hours :D
Kirollos Sawires
Thank you
ChessMood
Thank you too 😀
Francesco Brighenti
Excellent course! For every attacking scenario, it explains the typical attacking ideas and motives on a conceptual level using clear, entertaining, and concrete examples. Highly recommended.
ChessMood
Thanks, Francesco, we tried to have a clear step-by-step structure.
Jean marc LEPRETRE
Formidable condensé
ChessMood
I didn't know that this means "Beautifully condensed", but it feels positive, thank you 😇
Marius Cornee
Nice and comprehensive structure
ChessMood
Thanks Marius!
Kamel Hamoudi
Amazing work Hovhannes! I have learnt a lot thanks to you!
ChessMood
Thanks Kamel, I am glad you learned a lot!
David Flynn
I've found attacking chess examples (other than tactical motives) are usually presented with lengthy analysis which overwhelm many amateurs. This course uses more straight-forward positions focusing on getting the ideas across rather than demonstrating complex World-class Grandmaster attacks. Examples in this course are simpler, building one's confidence that they could be reproduced in one of your own games.
ChessMood
Thanks, David,
You are right, the point is not long calculations. We tried to deliver the principles and concepts in an easy way to understand.
Ovi - Silver Cloud
Excellent ideas presented by master coach Hovhannes on attacking principles. Anyone who is an attacking player should study these.
Thank you!
ChessMood
I hope this makes it easier to attack, thank you!
Jean marc LEPRETRE
Great job
ChessMood
Thanks!
Vikram Medelin
Great examples!
ChessMood
Thanks!
Vikram Medelin
Congratulation great job Hovhannes , nice examples sorted by different category.
Also review is helpful.
GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes
Hovhannes Gabuzyan became a U-16 Olympic Champion in 2010. Two years later, at 17, he achieved the Grandmaster title.
He was the World University Chess Champion in 2016, the Armenian Champion in 2017 and 2021, and has represented his country at the prestigious Chess Olympiad.
He believes time is a person’s most valuable resource. This philosophy reflects in his swift play on the chessboard and his training methods that focus on squeezing the most out of one’s time.
Hovhannes Gabuzyan became a U-16 Olympic Champion in 2010. Two years later, at 17, he achieved the Grandmaster title.
He was the World University Chess Champion in 2016, the Armenian Champion in 2017 and 2021, and has represented his country at the prestigious Chess Olympiad.
He believes time is a person’s most valuable resource. This philosophy reflects in his swift play on the chessboard and his training methods that focus on squeezing the most out of one’s time.
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