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The Wolf of Chess Street - Mastering the Art of Piece Trading

Course 227 episodes
(8 hours 38 min)

Creators GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes

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People are always trading stocks on the Wall Street.

And the smartest person on the Wall Street, or the wolf as they like to call it, knows how to make a big fortune by spotting the right trades!

The chess board is no different.

Just like trading stocks is very common on the Wall Street, so is exchanging pieces on the chessboard.

What you'll learn

1 easy question to evaluate any exchange.
3 important strategies around exchanging in the opening.
The rules of trading pieces when one side has a space advantage.
The common and the hidden mistakes even strong players make while exchanging.
A classic strategy to use when one of the opponent’s pieces is shut out of the game.
The rules of exchanging in lost positions and winning positions.
When to make anti-positional trades to gain an advantage.
The exceptions when you can break all the exchange-related rules and more.
How to defuse your opponent’s ideas by understanding what they want to trade.
Passed pawn and the role of exchanges and more!

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Course Content

227
Episodes
360
Quizzes & Trainings
8 hours 38 min

Course overview

1. Introduction

Unlocked 1m 15s

2. Not obvious mistake

Unlocked 2m 40s

3. Common mistakes with a pawn

4. Botvinnik’s mistake

Unlocked 1m 28s

1. Introduction

2. Ask WHY? - pawn positions

3. Summarizing the pawn

6. Practical examples

1. Introduction

2. Pawn. Equal pawns

3. Pawn. Unequal pawns

4. Summarizing the pawn

5. Bishop trade

6. Summarizing the Bishop

8. Summarizing the Queen

1. Introduction

2. Logic of trade in positions with space advantage

3. Room concept

4. Summarizing the rules

6. Saduakassova D. 2448 - O’Gorman T. 2440, 2017

7. Powerful Korchnoi

9. Check all your options

10. Trade the strong piece

1. Introduction

2. The TV concept

3. TV and space

4. Multiple trades

1. Introduction

2. Trade rule while attacking

3. Keep and crush

4. Summarizing "No trade"

5. Another trading concept

6. Attack by the World champion

7. Summarizing "Trade defender"

9. Strong defender

10. Summarizing "Exception"

11. The logic of defense

12. Tactical defense

13. Summarizing "Defense"

1. Introduction

2. Logic in SLP

3. Queen is very important

4. Keeping the chances

5. Summarizing SLP - Attack on the King

6. Lightning on a sunny day

7. Natural trap

8. Summarizing other situations

10. Summarizing SLP exceptions

11. The concept opposite to SLP

12. Nguyen N. 2567 - Adams M. 2734

13. Kramnik V. 2744 - Topalov V. 2788

14. Summary of WWP logic

16. Summary of exception

17. Isolated piece

19. Two isolated pieces

1. Introduction

2. Mathematics of trade

3. Trade for a weak square

4. Summarizing the concept

5. Post opening ideas

6. Summary of "Weak square"

7. Complex squares

1. Introduction

2. Creating a weak pawn

4. Summary of 1 pawn weakness

5. Doubled pawns

6. Akopian V. 2678 - Ponomariov R. 2743

7. Summarizing the doubled pawns

8. The fianchetto Bishop

9. Summary of "Fianchetto Bishop"

1. Introduction

2. Exchange for the file

3. What to do with the blocker?

4. Strong Bishop on the diagonal

1. Introduction

2. Against Bishop pair

3. Summary of how to play against Bishop pair

4. With Bishop pair

5. Summary of how to play with Bishop pair

7. Summary of "Queen trade"

1. Introduction

3. Summary of the Bishop pair transformation

4. Trading for material

5. Trading for a line

6. What would you play?

1. Introduction

4. Summary of minor pieces + intro to heavy pieces

5. Heavy pieces: Rook

6. Heavy pieces: Queen

1. Introduction

3. Knight is the strongest blocker

4. Other pieces: Bishop

7. Summary of the blockers

8. Flexibility of pawn chain

1. Introduction

6. Aronian’s masterpiece

1. Introduction

2. Preventing the trade

3. Kortschnoj in action

4. Genius players

5. Summary of preventing + Intro to preventing with trade

6. Preventing with trade

7. Unusual idea

8. Several threats

9. Prophylactical test

1. Introduction

3. Weak square - What to do?

4. Passed pawn’s blocker

5. The defender piece

6. Passive pieces? - Surprise!

7. Against attacking rules

8. Genius level

9. Unexpected trade

1. Introduction

6. Prophylactical test

1. Introduction

2. A piece vs pawn(s)

3. More pieces on the board

4. Trade the pieces to push the pawns

5. Playing with a piece against pawns

6. Trading ideas with 2 pawns

7. A pawn against a piece

8. A piece vs pawns

9. Tactical solutions

10. Exchange up/down situations

11. Trade when an exchange up

12. Benefits of trading the pawns

13. Don't trade when an exchange down

14. Exchange test

15. Test | Being an exchange down

16. Rook vs 2 pieces: Main concepts

17. Trade with the Rook

18. Don’t trade when playing with pieces vs a Rook

19. Concrete endgames

21. Test | Rook vs 2 pieces

22. Queen vs Rooks

23. Trade when playing with Rooks against a Queen

24. Don’t trade the pieces when playing against Rooks

25. Test | Queen vs Rook

1. Introduction

2. Queen | Revising what we've learned

3. Queen trading strategy

4. When to avoid trading

5. Rook | Revising what we've learned

6. When we trade the Rooks | Back rank issues

7. When we trade the Rooks | Passed pawn

8. When we don’t trade the Rooks | Weak pawns to attack

9. Pawn minority attack

10. Bishop | Revising what we've learned

11. When we trade the Bishops | Smart trade

12. When to trade the Fianchetto Bishop

13. Bishop vs Knight | Revising what we've learned

14. Knight | Revising what we've learned

15. Check your understanding

16. Pawn | Revising what we've learned

17. Pawn trading ideas

18. Pawn trading for the lines

19. More nuances on pawn trading

1. Introduction

2. Rozentalis E. - Appel R. "Godfather of trades"

3. Gurevich M. - Short N. "Huge impact of small mistakes"

4. Miles A. - Larsen B. "Story of a bad piece"

1. Introduction

2. French Bishop

3. Action in the center

4. Unexpected move

5. Well-known concept

6. Dark squares' prisoner

8. Smart sequence

9. The reasonable idea

10. Weak square

11. Conceptual trades

12. Against Bishop pair

13. Genius level idea

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Students give this course an average of 5 out of 5 stars.

Course

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227

quize

360

time

8 hours 38 min

Creators GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes

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