Chess Fundamentals by Chris Maks

Develop A Clear Understanding Of Chess Fundamentals And Core Principles As Experienced Coach Chris Maks Guides You From Beginner To Blue Belt!

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What Will You Learn?

Take the vital first steps on your chess journey with this powerful course on core chess principles and strategic tenets. Divided into three parts, Chess Fundamentals: White Belt to Blue Belt offers a guide to how to see and think about chess, giving you the essential tools to start on the road to chess mastery.  

Part 1 focuses on the early phase of the game and how to best approach it. Here, you will learn how to prioritize your pieces, where to put your pawns, and what you can do to fight for the critical squares in the center of the board. Through instructive games and example positions from beginners and masters alike, coach Chris Maks will show how adherence to these key principles can profoundly affect the outcome of the game, how they can be found at the heart of both early game traps and decisive long-game advantages, and how you can effectively spot the opportunities that arise when an opponent fails to follow them. 

In Parts 2 and 3, you will learn how to utilize a well-developed and well-coordinated army of pieces to carry you towards victory. Part 2 will focus on when to make trades and how to determine which are worth making, based on both a general understanding of the value of different pieces, and a dynamic understanding of when pieces are at their best, and when they pose a critical liability. In Part 3, you will bring your fundamentals learned so far together as you learn how to determine if you should be attacking or defending, how to put together a plan to mobilize your pieces towards your needed ends, and how to convert advantages into victory and disadvantage into equality.   

Coach Chris Maks brings to the table more than twenty years’ teaching experience, and this allows him to impart not only a wide range of illustrative examples to showcase how principles can be put into practice, but also a tremendous practical understanding of what obstacles newer players may face in absorbing chess knowledge. Through his viewer-friendly walkthroughs of critical chess lessons, Coach Maks will share his insights into what concepts tend to be most difficult for beginning and intermediate players, and what kinds of moves and positions create the most challenge and trickery for the learning player. 

The game of chess offers infinite possibility when it comes to exploration, discovery, and expansion of the mind’s strength and ability. But the journey through the chess world must begin with a fundamental comprehension of how that world works, and from what essential components it is made. Just as self-improvement and mastery in any martial art begin with an understanding of key techniques, concepts, and forms for the student progressing through the early belts, so too does the rewarding, powerful journey of chess exploration begin with an understanding of the game’s essential concepts, principles, and techniques. With experienced coach Chris Maks as your guide, that is a journey you can begin today.

 So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1