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Happy Pieces: The Art of Keeping Your Army Happy

Happy Pieces: The Art of Keeping Your Army Happy

Course 109 episodes
(5 hours 22 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

Imagine there’s a President who wants to take his country forward. He works hard day and night.

But what if his ministers spend most of their time on vacations, not doing what they’re supposed to do.

That would mean, even despite the President’s efforts, his country would not make much progress...

The same applies to chess.

In this case, you are the President and your pieces are the ministers.

Your job is to give them a fulfilling role to unlock their full potential, contribute to the position and improve your chances of winning!

In this course, our Grandmaster coaches will show you how to do precisely all of that!

Below are some of the positions taken from the course:

Our Grandmasters will ask you many questions throughout the video. Please think over them because this will help you grasp the ideas better.

As you apply what you learn here to your games, you’ll get better at piece play and become a stronger positional player who’s capable of converting equal-looking positions.

Let’s jump in!

What you'll learn

The most underrated(and fun!) question to improve your pieces, which anyone can use, from a beginner to a GM.
How to find a job for your pieces in different positions — openings, middlegames, closed positions, attacking positions, etc.
The strategy for every individual piece to play at their full potential in a position.

Lesson Plan

109 episode(s) 5 hours 22 min

Course overview

1. The game-changer Queen

Unlocked 5m 34s

2. Find a job for your pieces

Unlocked 8m 33s

Unlocked 4m 54s

4. Each piece is important

5. The Queen in closed positions

6. The Queen in attack

Unlocked 2m 45s

8. The attacker Rook

Unlocked 2m 28s

9. A better job for the Bishop

Unlocked 1m 31s

10. The monster Bishops

Unlocked 1m 35s

11. The happy Knights

Unlocked 4m 51s

12. The legendary King

Unlocked 8m 23s

13. The key of finding the correct plan

14. The two general rules

16. The Queen in the Scotch game

17. The Queen in the Sicilians

18. The Queen in the Scandinavian

19. The problems of the "c3" move

20. The Queen in the French defense

21. Winter W. - Alekhine A.

23. Creative development

24. Creative development in the Anti-Grunfeld

26. Introduction

27. What is Mopening?

28. Xie J. - Larsen B.

29. Thanadon K. - Murung T.

30. Carlsen M. - Anand V.

31. Bacrot E. - McShane L.

32. Introduction

33. Movsesian S. - Bures J.

34. Sokolov I. - Rahman Z.

35. Gelfand B. - Huzman A.

36. Huebner R. - Meyer H.

37. Kramnik V. - Zvjaginsev V.

38. Gasanov E. - Mchedishvili M.

39. Karpov A. - Spassky B.

40. Fominyh A. - Chernyshov K.

41. Rodriguez V. - Milos G.

42. Introduction

43. Karpov A. - Polugaevsky L.

44. Monier R. - Grand Zuniga J.

45. Wojtaszek R. - Nisipeanu L.

46. Steinitz W. - Chigorin M.

47. Piket J. - Kasparov G.

48. Hausman W. - Geller E.

49. Najer E. - Gutov A.

50. Thanadon K. - Kalashian D.

51. The Queen on h4 or h5

52. Tal M. - Shagalovich A.

53. Motylev A. - Malakhov V.

54. Queen first

55. Galkin A. - Macieja B.

56. Ahues C. - Alekhine A.

57. Queen in the Caro Kann

58. Introduction

59. Sokolov A. - Yussupow A.

60. Shirov A. - Polgar J.

61. Aravindh C. - Tomashevsky E.

62. Gelfand B. - Van Wely L.

63. Gabuzyan H. - Akobian V.

64. Introduction

65. Lenic L. - Le Quang Lien

66. Taimanov M. - Jussupow A.

67. Wolff P. - Kaidanov G.

68. Leverett B. - Remlinger L.

69. Milos G. - Andersson U.

70. Introduction

71. Raetsky A. - Bologan V.

72. Sukandar I. - Teh We.

73. Fischer R. - Rosetto H.

74. Larsen B. - Suetin A.

75. O'Kelly A - Smyslov V.

76. Svidler P. - Bacrot E.

77. Motylev A. - Shariyazdanov A.

78. Leko P. - Vallejo P.

79. The use of knowing different games

80. Plaskett H. - Tkachiev V.

82. Introduction

83. Krivoshey S. - Andersson U.

84. Fischer R. - Keres P.

85. Ionescu M. - Iordachescu V.

86. Gorovykh E. - Grigoryan A.

87. Geller E. - Fischer R.

88. Gabuzyan H. - Akobian V.

90. Introduction

91. Shrentzel I. - Shvidler E.

92. Korotylev A. - Repritsen A.

93. Gulko B. - Panno O.

94. Westerinen H. - Savon V.

95. Reshevsky S. - Sherwin J.

96. Markland P. - Hort V.

97. Janowski D. - Berger J.

98. Janowski D. - Taubenhaus J.

99. See you in the next sections!

100. Introduction

101. Huebner R. - Korchnoi V.

102. Open Line or Attack

103. The Master Game

104. The Craziest Rook Lift Ever

105. Budapest Rook Lift

106. Kasparov G. - Huebner R.

107. Minasian A. - Gelfand B.

108. Dorfman J. - Varga Z.

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Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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