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The Rise of Champions: Your Fun Path from Zero to Hero

Course 211 episodes
(11 hours 39 min)
Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan
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My dear friend and my rising champion!
Avo here, that same Grandmaster Avetik Grigoryan.

In two conditions, I’ll throw myself from the window.
1 - If you follow the course instructions and don’t cross at least an 800+ rating. 
2 - If you get bored at some point while watching the course. 

This is what I had in mind while preparing this course for you. 

But as I love my life and didn’t want to jump out of the window, I set myself a challenging task—to create the best, most fun, and most fundamental course for beginners. 

 

Here are a few positions from the course:

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I wrote and rewrote, recorded and re-recorded, hesitated, and tested. Often, the solutions to explaining a difficult concept came to me while sleeping—and like that, for over one year! 

But okay, I also had lots of fun (as you’ll see) while preparing this for you. Most importantly, I hope that YOU will have fun, enjoy, laugh, and…learn. Eventually crossing at least 800+ rating.

Otherwise, at least buy me a parachute! 🙂
I live on the 10th floor. If I jump from there without anything, at minimum, it’ll hurt 😀 

So, my champions. My life is in your hands. Haha 😂 

Love you. And I’ll love you more if I’m alive.

With best wishes,
GM Avetik (or Avo, as my friends call me)

What you'll learn

  • Master the rules (not just learn)
  • Opening Principles and Your First Openings
  • All Must-Know Tactical Motifs
  • All Must-Know Mating Patterns
  • The Basics of Attack and Defense
  • The Silent Strategy: The Basics of Positional Chess
  • How to Effectively Use Your Pieces
  • Master the Art of Trading
  • What You Should Do in the Endgames
  • How to Win Won Games and Save Lost Ones
  • How to Think During the Game Generally
  • And Much More…

 

Course Content

  • 211
    Episodes
  • 3757
    Quizzes & Trainings
  • 14
    Attachments
  • 11 hours 39 min
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1. How it is played
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2. Meet the chessboard
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3. Square names
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4. Meet the Rook
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9. Meet the pawn
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10. Pawn capturing
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11. En Passant
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15. Super checks
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16. What is checkmate?
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17. Resignation
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Article - The Golden Question You Should Ask Before Resigning
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18. Chess clock
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19. The MMA Method - The 4th way to win a game
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20. Losing
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21. The 3rd result - Draw
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22. Stalemate
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23. Threefold repetition & Perpetual check
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24. Insufficient mating material
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25. Draw agreement
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26. The fifty-move rule
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27. Draw recap
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28. Castling: Happy King, happier Rook
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29. The currency on the chessboard: Value of the pieces
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30. Good luck!
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Slide - Types of draw
Slide - 7 situations when you can't castle
Slide - Relative value of pieces
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10. Are you pumped?
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2. Tactic & Strategy
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3. Pin
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4. The types of Pins
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5. What are the pieces that can pin?
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11. Good job!
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13. Two types of Skewers
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14. Who can skewer?
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15. Barbecue time
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17. The types of Forks
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18. Who can fork?
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19. Fork time!
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21. Annihilation
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32. Congrats, my Ninjas!
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