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Silent Strategy - How to Win Games Positionally

Course 59 episodes
(3 hours 32 min)

Creators GM Gabuzyan Hovhannes

For many players, positional chess feels like a mystery.

You might know about weak squares, weak pawns, and other concepts.
But when it’s time to connect the dots and take advantage of them in a real game? Frustration and struggle kick in.

That’s all about to change once you discover the Silent Strategy.

This revolutionary concept will transform how you approach positional chess!

With GM Gabuzyan as your guide, you’ll learn positional concepts through historical stories and simple analogies, making even the trickiest ideas easy to understand.

You’ll also find quizzes and slides to reinforce what you’ve learned.

Once you master these concepts, you’ll get stronger at outplaying your opponents in equal-looking positions—leaving them wondering, “How did that happen?”

When that moment comes, just smile. Your Silent Strategy quietly did its job.🙂

Ready to dive in?
Let’s begin!

What you'll learn

The Silent Strategy: A revolutionary concept that will transform how you approach positional chess.
What should you do when there are no obvious moves or tactics?
Fundamental positional concepts like space, weak pawns, weak squares, happy pieces, and more.
How should you play when you have more space vs. when you have less space?
How to play when there are weak squares and the pieces that love to exploit them.
Weak pawns: How to identify them and which piece causes them the most trouble.
Happy pieces: Strategies to ensure each piece performs at its best.
Pawn play: When should you push pawns, and when should you hold back?
How to make smart trades in chess—and much more.

Course Content

59
Episodes
207
Quizzes & Trainings
3 hours 32 min

Course introduction

Unlocked 3m 57s

1. 2 ways of winning material

2. Actual and relative values of pieces

Unlocked 10m 55s

Unlocked 1m 14s

1. What is space advantage?

2. Why is space advantage so important?

3. Benefits of space - mobility of the pieces

4. The Room concept

5. Playing with space advantage

6. Avoid trades

7. Exception – Trade the bad Bishop

8. Summary of trades

9. Attack with space advantage

10. Play where you are stronger

11. Open the board at the right moment

12. Expand your space

13. Preventing the breakthroughs

14. Summary on how to play with space advantage

15. Trade the pieces

16. Trade the space-maker pawn

17. Improve your position

18. Summary - playing withlack of space

19. How to create space advantage

20. The fight for space starts in the opening

21. Creating space advantage

1. What is a weak square?

2. Types of weak squares

3. Which pieces work best on weak squares

4. Quality of weak squares

5. Summary of what is a weak square

6. Invade through weak squares

7. Weak square in attack

8. Complex weak square

9. The math of trading for weak square

10. Trade weak square defenders

11. Fixation/Blockade

12. The right capturing

13. Weak squares in endgames

14. Summary on how to use weak square

15. Creating a weak square

16. Don’t create a weak square in your camp

17. Trading key pawns

18. Spoiling pawn structure with trades

19. Spoil pawn structure: Provocation

20. Spoil pawn structure: Pawn Sacrifice

21. Summary on how to create a weak square

22. Play when you have a weak square

23. Defend it - reversed math

24. Get rid of the weak square

25. By pawn trade

26. Break the leg

27. Close the square with trade

28. Improve the pawn structure

29. Make it useless

30. Trade the attacker/s

31. Close access to the square

32. Summary on how to play when you have a weak square

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