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

Course

250 EPISODES (15h 3m)

Creator

GM Avetik Grigoryan

Buy this course for $297

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…

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Lesson Plan 250 episode(s)

1. Campeones, Campeones, Ole, Ole, Ole

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2. Agenda

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3. How to rise faster

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1. How it is played

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2. Meet the chessboard

3. Square names

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4. Meet the Rook

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5. Meet the Bishop

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6. Meet the Queen

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7. Meet the King

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8. Meet the Knight

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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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12. Pawn recap

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13. What is check?

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14. Three ways to defend against checks

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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

18. Chess clock

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19. The MMA Method - The 4th way to win a game

20. Losing

21. The 3rd result - Draw

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

Article - Why You Should Reject Draw Offers

26. The fifty-move rule

27. Draw recap

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!

2. Lichess.org

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3. Our 1st game

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4. The rematch

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5. Chess.com

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6. What time control to pick?

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Article - Does bullet chess make you better or worse?

7. Hit the brake in time

Article - Golden Method to Increase Online Rating in Chess

8. The rating and the shadow

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Article - How I Achieved 2900 on Chess.com!

Article - The Surrender Experiment: How I Raised 100 Points in Three Months

Article - Detachment: Focus on growth and not the result

Article - How to Multiply Good Results in Chess

9. Fun + Growth

10. Take it easy

Article - How to Stop Blunders: The Ultimate Grandmaster Guide

Article - Blundered? Bounce back with this 5-step Grandmaster method!

11. Playing on a physical board

12. Board setup

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13. Chess clock

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14. The touch rule

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15. Draw offer

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16. Winning and Losing

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17. Good luck

1. Tiger & Mouse

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2. Principle #1

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3. Principle #2

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4. Principle #3

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5. Power tips: Pawns

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6. Don’t make this move!

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7. Power tips: Knights

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8. Power tips: Bishops

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9. Power tips: Rooks

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10. Power tips: The Queen

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11. The 3 Effective setups

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12. Opening philosophies

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13. Gambits

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14. You did it!

1. Fire on the board

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2. 1.e4!

3. 1…e5: The Danish Gambit!

4. 1…c5: Smith-Morra Gambit

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5. 1…d5 & Why is it bad?

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6. 1…e6: French

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7. 1…c6: Caro-Kann

8. Knight moves

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9. Sounds good? :)

10. Playing with Black

11. Vs. 1.e4: Scandinavian Gambit

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12. Vs. 1.d4: En-Passant Gambit!

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13. Good Luck!

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1. Welcome to the gym

2. Capturing

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3. Capturing the unprotected piece

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4. Capturing the greater gain

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5. Capturing with force

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6. Checking

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7. Check and win

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8. Creating threats

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9. Facing threats

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10. Are you pumped?

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1. What’s then?

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2. Mating with two Queens - Staircase method

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3. Mating with Queen & Rook - Staircase method

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Training

4. Mating with two Rooks - Staircase method

Training

5. The Cowboy method

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6. Mating with a Queen - Boxing method

7. Mating with a Rook - Boxing method

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8. Can we mate with minor pieces?

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9. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 1

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10. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 2

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11. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 3

12. Ole, ole, oleeee!!!

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1. Introduction

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2. Tactic & Strategy

3. Pin

4. The types of Pins

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5. What are the pieces that can pin?

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6. Pin and win

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7. Pin and ruin

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8. Mate with a Pin

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9. Win with a Pin

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10. Four ways to get out of a Pin

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11. Good job!

Article - The Pin Tactic in Chess Explained by a Grandmaster [For Beginners]

13. Two types of Skewers

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14. Who can skewer?

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15. Barbecue time

Article - The Skewer tactic explained by a Grandmaster!

17. The types of Forks

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18. Who can fork?

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19. Fork time!

Article - The Fork Tactic in Chess Explained

20. The three beginner tactics

21. Annihilation

22. Deflection

23. Distraction

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24. Discovered check

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25. Double check

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26. Windmill

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27. Discovered attack

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28. Double attack

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29. X-Ray

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30. Clearance

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31. Decoy

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32. Congrats, my Ninjas!

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1. Time for Mushrooms?

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2. PART 1. King in the center

3. Achilles' heel

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4. Fool mate diagonal

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5. Opera mate

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6. Smothered mate

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7. PART 2. Short-castled King

8. Backrank mate

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9. Kiss of death

10. Cheek kiss mate

11. Battery

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12. Heavy battery

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13. Invasion mate

14. PART 3. Long-castled King

15. No Backrank mate?

16. Mayet’s mate

17. Jab - Right Hook Mate

18. Kiss of death

19. Cheek kiss mate

20. Rook mate

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21. Mating Matador

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1. Round Three!

2. Mate in ONE

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3. Mate in TWO with checks

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4. Mate in TWO with quiet moves

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5. Mate in TWO with teamwork

6. Mate in TWO with tactics

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7. Pumped?

1. Who is Calclman?

2. “Forcing Moves” method

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3. “Forcing Moves” in practice

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4. “Better Move” method

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5. “Better Move” in practice

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6. “Piece Scan” method

7. “Piece Scan” in practice

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8. “Three Second” method

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9. “Three Second” in practice

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10. “Detective” method

11. “Detective” in practice

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12. Congrats!

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1. Welcome to battlefield!

2. Attack - Bring the pieces

3. Defense - Bring the pieces

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4. Attack - Expose

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5. Defense - Keep closed

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6. Attack - Avoid trades

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7. Defense - Trade

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8. Attack - Sacrifice

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9. Defense - Don’t panic

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10. Attack - Guard your King

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11. Defense - Counterattack

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12. Good luck!

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1. When there is nothing to do

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2. It was just relative!

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3. Five ways to silently gain material

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4. Let's go!

1. What is space advantage & its importance

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2. The main benefit of space

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3. The main problem of lack of space

4. The room concept

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5. The #1 thing to do with a space advantage

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6. The #1 thing to do with lack of space

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7. Congrats!

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2. What is a weak square?

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3. Our pieces love them!

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4. The minor pieces love them more!

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5. Weak squares around the King

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6. Invasion In the endgame

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7. Bum-da-hey-di-hey-di

1. The crying pawns

2. What is a weak pawn?

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3. Pawn islands

4. Isolated pawn

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5. Backward pawn

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6. Doubled pawns

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7. Weak pawns examples in Champions’ gambits

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8. Avoid weaknesses

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9. The hunter

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10. Congrats!

1. Happy pieces - Happy game!

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2. Happy Bishop

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3. Happy Knight

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4. Happy Rook

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5. Happy Queen

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6. Happy King

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7. Happy student - Happy coach

1. Oh, these pawns…

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2. Sad pawns

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3. Happy pawns

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4. Pawn’s main dream - What, When, Why

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5. The two words to keep in mind

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6. Tips for pawn play

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7. Ole, ole, ole!!!

1. Introduction

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2. The most common mistake

3. Answer this question

4. Ask this question

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5. Good luck!

1. Introduction

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2. Get a Queen

3. Create a passed pawn

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4. Win pawns

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5. Activate the pieces

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6. Activate the King

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7. My champion!

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1. The two strategies

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2. Strategy #1 when winning

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3. Strategy #2 when winning

4. Strategy #1 when losing

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5. Strategy #2 when losing

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6. Congratulations, my Champions!

1. How to think?

2. Explore the opponent’s move

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3. Calculate forcing moves first

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4. Be aware

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5. Talk to your pieces

6. Yesss!

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Course conclusion

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