100 Strategic Masterpieces

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109 EPISODES (29h 53m)

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GM Avetik Grigoryan

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Imagine you are traveling to Paris. You know only 3 streets in the city and have no access to GPS. So there’s a high chance you might get lost in the city, right?

But what if you knew 50 streets instead of 3? What about 200? Of course, then it’ll be easier to find the route!

The same is in chess: the more chess classics you know, the easier to navigate chess positions! ...

At the same time, knowing how to study them is also equally important.

Anyone can memorize the moves, but it’s the concepts and underlying thought processes which inexperienced players find difficult to grasp.

That’s where the expertise of our Grandmaster coaches, with over 10 years of coaching experience, kicks in!

They’ll explain the underlying thought process, gently nudge you to remember essential information, and share many fun stories!

Our team has chosen only the most instructive games, where every game has a clear takeaway.

Below are some of the positions taken from the course:

Commented classical games

To extract the most out of this course, follow the 3 instructions given by GM Avetik in the Introduction:

Pause and think when our GMs ask you to do so.
Watch only 1 game each day.
Don’t try to memorize all moves of the game.

You’ll fall in love with chess classics and also become a better player in the process, just like many of our students!

Let’s begin!

Additional Reading: You may find it helpful to read what happened after the Arabkir Chess School introduced chess classics to their students.

What you'll learn

Why you should study chess classics?
Important strategies like making the right exchanges, finding plans, prophylaxis, etc.
Typical middlegame ideas and concepts in different openings like King’s Indian Defense, Caro-Kann, Ruy Lopez, etc.
How do you apply what you learn from classics in a real game? GM Avetik shows how he used an idea he learned from Kasparov's game!
The winning strategies used by great chess players like Fischer, Capablanca, Alekhine and others.
Instructive games played by the world champions and legends of the game.
How do you win winning positions?
How to save losing positions and much more.

Lesson Plan 109 episode(s)

Course overview

1. Why Studying Classics Is a Must?

2. What You Will Learn?

Unlocked 3m 31s

3. How to Work With the Course Most Effectively?

Unlocked 1m 40s

4. Let's go!

Game 1. Schlechter C. - John W. "2 Important Rules of Converting the Advantage"

Unlocked 22m 11s

Game 2. Evenson A. - Alekhine A. "Get out of the way!"

Unlocked 22m 42s

Game 3. Steinitz W. - Sellmann A. "Strategic Triumph"

Unlocked 12m 25s

Game 4. Rubinstein A. - Salwe G. "Playing against hanging pawns"

Game 5. Steinitz W. - Showalter J. "Cornering Queen with Space Advantage"

Game 6. Nimzowitsch A. - Capablanca J. R. "Pressuring with Half Open Lines"

Game 7. Marshall F. - Spielman R. "Playing against an IQP position"

Game 8. Marshall F. - Capablanca J. R. "Queenside Pawn Majority"

Game 9. Wolf H. - Rubinstein A. "Advantage of a Knight pair"

Game 10. Capablanca J. R. - Marshall F. "The g4 Plan in Ruy Lopez"

Game 11. Winter W. - Capablanca J. R. "Isolating a Piece"

Game 12. Alekhine A. - Vajda A. "Positional powerplay"

Game 13. Reti R. - Yates F. "Finding a Plan"

Bonus. Grigoryan - Hovhannisyan "The Move of My Life!"

Game 14. Bogoljubow E. - Romanovsky P. "Playing against a bad piece"

Game 15. Thomas G. - Alekhine A. "A slow and steady grind"

Game 16. Johner P. - Nimzowitsch A. "Multifunctional Move"

Game 17. Saemisch F. - Alekhine A. "Playing for draw vs World Champion"

Game 18. Nimzowitch A. - Capablanca J. R. "Taking the Initiative with Black"

Game 19. Botvinnik M. - Kholodkevich K. "The Importance of Half-Open Lines"

Game 20. Colle E. - Szekely J. "Increasing the advantage"

Game 21. Capablanca J. R. - Rubinstein A. "A Fight Between the Legends"

Game 22. Rubinstein A. - Nimzowitsch A. "Can You Guess the Move?"

Game 23. Rubinstein A. - Takacs S. "Creating the 2nd Weakness"

Game 24. Nimzowitsch A. - Rubinstein A. "The Bishop artillery"

Game 25. Capablanca J. R. - Treybal K. "The Betrayed Bishop"

Game 26. Rubinstein A. - Canal E. "Give up the Bishop?"

Game 27. Alekhine A. - Nimzowitsch A. "The famous Alekhine gun"

Game 28. Macht A. - Alekhine A. "Importance of a central pawn"

Game 29. Alekhine A. - Zuckerman B. "Winning Fast"

Game 30. Alekhine A. - Mikenas V. 1933 "Dubious opening setup"

Game 31. Botvinnik M. - Yudovich M. "Rejecting Queen trade"

Game 32. Capablanca R. J. - Lilenthal A. "Passive Play is not a Way"

Game 33. Winter W. - Alekhine A. "The Art of Winning Equal Positions"

Game 34. Larsen B. - Andersen B. "The Art of Trading the Bishops"

Game 35. Botvinnik M. - Alekhine A. "Dilemma of the Open Lines"

Game 36. Botvinnik M. - Capablanca J. R. "Neutralizing the Upcoming Attack"

Game 37. Gligoric S. - Benko P. "Neutralizing the Upcoming Attack"

Game 38. Pogrebissky I. - Botvinnik M. "Botvinnik’s Masterclass in Closed French Structure"

Game 39. Stolberg M. - Botvinnik M. "Winning in symmetrical positions"

Game 40. Flohr S. - Makogonov V. "Creating play in symmetrical structures"

Game 41. Botvinnik M. - Zagoryansky E. "Exploiting Isolated Pawn"

Game 42. Liublinsky V. - Botvinnik M. "A Tip for Saving Strategically Lost Positions"

Game 43. Gligoric S. - Neikirkh O. "Using a central outpost"

Game 44. Sajtazr J. - Smyslov V. "Development matters!"

Game 45. Smyslov V. - Reshevsky S. "Converting The Advantage"

Game 46. Larsen B. - Nielsen A. "Imprisoning the entire army"

Game 47. Petrosian T. - Chistiakov A. "The Monster on e5"

Game 48. Andersson U. - Browne W. "The Monster on d5"

Game 49. Petrosian T. - Pilnik H. "Using prophylaxis and weaknesses"

Game 50. Petrosian T. - Rossetto H. "A weakness to target"

Game 51. Averbakh Y. - Neikirkh O. "From attack to positional chess"

Game 52. Blau M. - Keres P. "Improving 1% on every move"

Game 53. Gligoric S. - Smyslov V. "Blockading the central pawns"

Game 54. Petrosian R. - Fischer R. "Paralyzed and Destroyed"

Game 55. Fischer B. - Bolbochan J. "Monster Knight on d5 in Attack"

Game 56. Boleslavky I. - Lisitsin G. "Monster Knight"

Game 57. Petrosian T. - Schweber S. "Exchanging the Right Pieces"

Bonus. Grigoryan A. - Korobkov P. "Copying Ideas from Petrosian's Games"

Game 58. Stein L. - Yanofsky D. "Using extra space"

Game 59. Botvinnik M. - Soderbord B. "Pawn sacrifice to make pieces happy"

Game 60. Botvinnik M. - Donner J. "Importance of good squares"

Game 61. Polugaevsky L. - Kortschnoj V. "Bishop pair in the Right Mood"

Game 62. Petrosian T. - Donner J. "Good doubled pawns "

Game 63. Smyslov V. - Panov V. "Dangers of less space"

Game 64. Bobotsov M. - Petrosian T. "Never Play Without a Plan"

Game 65. Portisch L. - Kasparov G. "The Fantastic Knight on d6"

Bonus. The Use of Knowing Classical Games

Game 66. Stein L. - Rodriguez G. "Long-ranged monsters"

Game 67. Kortschnoj V. - Penrose J. "Good Bishops vs Bad Bishops"

Game 68. Portisch L. - Radulov I. "Monster breakthrough"

Game 69. Botvinnik M. - Ostojic P. "Artificial castling"

Game 70. Fischer B. - Unzicker W. "The Importance of Knowing Classical Games"

Game 71. Fischer B. - Ibrahimoglu I. "Exploiting Weak Squares"

Game 72. Acevedo A. - Fischer R. "Fischer the Genius"

Game 73. Petrosian T. - Mecking H. "Taking Away the Opponent's All Counter Chances"

Game 74. Bisguier A. - Karpov A. "The Secret of Playing Against Isolated Pawn"

Game 75. Fischer B. - Spassky B. "Converting a Positional Advantage into an Attack"

Game 76. Larsen B. - Hort V. "A clever positional sacrifice"

Game 77. Petrosian T. - Savon V. "Bishop pair in jail"

Game 78. Karpov A. - Uhlman W. "Open Line or 7th Rank"

Game 79. Karpov A. - Kuzmin G. "Never Have an Isolated Pawn Against Karpov!"

Game 80. Enklaar B. - Petrosian T. "Playing against 2 Bishops in the Sicilian"

Game 81. Karpov A. - Unzicker W. "Choking Snake"

Game 82. Smyslov V. - Gudmundsson K. "Playing against a cut-off piece"

Game 83. Karpov A. - Westerinen H. "Strong maneuvers"

Game 84. Petrosian T. - Kortschnoj V. "Power of a central passer"

Game 85. Andersson U. - Qi Jingxuan "Two Bishop Advantage"

Game 86. Petrosian T. - Sax. G. "Two Bishop Advantage"

Game 87. Ljubojevic L. - Belkadi R. "Positional Exchange Sacrifice"

Game 88. Karpov A. - Spassky B. "Karpovs' Nb1!!"

Game 89. Karpov A. - Hansen C. "Again Nb1!!"

Game 90. Rubinstein A. - Duras O. "Exchanging the Defender"

Game 91. Polugaevsky L. - Romanishin O. "An expensive pawn"

Game 92. Ljubojevic L. - Gligoric S. "Offside Queen"

Game 93. Dolmatov S. - Hernandez R. "Don’t be lazy to manoeuvre"

Game 94. Kasparov G. - Martinovic S. "Strong Plan vs No Plan"

Game 95. Andersson U. - Kavalek L. "Every rule has an exception"

Game 96. Portish L. - Christiansen L. M. "The Back-Rank Trick"

Game 97. Spassky B. - Fischer B. "Space Advantage"

Game 98. Rozentalis E. - Appel R. "The Subtle Art of Exchanges in Chess"

Game 99. Salov V. - Karpov A. "Destroying the Hedgehog structure"

Game 100. Karpov A. - Timman J. "Switching play between flanks"

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