Silent Strategy - How to Win Games Positionally

Course

171 EPISODES (7h 46m)

Creator

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.

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Lesson Plan 171 episode(s)

Course introduction

Unlocked 3m 57s

1. 2 ways of winning material

Unlocked 2m 26s

2. Actual and relative values of pieces

Unlocked 10m 55s

3. Conclusion

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

22. Conclusion

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

33. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Downsides of a weak pawn

3. Weak pawns hate Rooks

4. Types of weak pawns

5. Isolated pawn

6. Hanging pawns

7. Backward pawn

8. Doubled pawns

9. Weak doubled pawns

10. Strong doubled pawns

11. Pawn islands

12. Summarizing the concepts

13. Attack and grab the weak pawn

14. Active vs passive pieces

15. Trade the weak pawn defender

16. Don’t trade your Rooks

17. Fixing a pawn

18. Open file(s)

19. Summary on how to play against a weak pawn

20. Creating weak pawns

21. Piece or pawn trades

22. Provocation

23. The right capturing

24. Destroy the key pawn

25. Sacrifice

26. Summary on how to create a weak pawn

27. Playing with a weak pawn

28. Trade the weak pawn

29. Trade the Rooks

30. Choose active defense

31. Change the pawn structure

32. Sacrifice for activity

33. Summary on how to play with a weak pawn

34. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Happy Bishop

3. When the Bishop is sad

4. When the Bishop is happy

5. Happy Bishop in the opening

6. Open diagonals

7. Open the lines

8. Untouchable central squares

9. Right pawn structure

10. Playing on two flanks

11. Fianchetto

12. Passed pawn blocker

13. Happy Bishops

14. Bishop pair’s power

15. Summary of Happy Bishop

16. Against happy Bishop - trade it

17. Against happy Bishop - limit it

18. Against happy Bishops - trade one of them

19. Close the position

20. Against happy Bishop(s) - Summary

21. The sad Knight

22. Happy Knight

23. Weak squares

24. Playing on one flank

25. Blocking the passed pawn

26. Summarizing the happy Knight

27. Playing against happy Knight

28. Summary - how to play against Happy Knight

29. The sad Rook

30. Happy Rook

31. Open and half-open files

32. The 7th rank

33. Doubled Rooks

34. Attacking the weak pawn

35. Open the files

36. Summary of happy Rook

37. Fight for the file

38. Trade the active Rook on 7th/2nd rank

39. Control the square

40. Block the file

41. How to play against happy Rook - summary

42. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Common mistakes and the solution

3. Get the center & space

4. Attack the opponent’s pieces

5. Breakthrough

6. Protect our pieces

7. Limit the opponent’s pieces

8. Stop the opponent’s pawns

9. Protect squares and territory

10. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Bad trades

3. Smart trades

4. Conclusion

1. Introduction

Crosstable

3. Example 2

4. Example 3

5. Example 4

6. Example 5

7. Example 6

8. Example 7

9. Example 8

10. Example 9

11. Example 10

12. Example 11

13. Example 12

14. Example 13

15. Example 14

16. Example 15

17. Example 16

18. Example 17

19. Example 18

20. Example 19

21. Example 20

22. Conclusion

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