The Minority Attack

Today I have some good news for you. International Master Attila Turzo will conduct a live Webinar “The Minority Attack” on Sunday, 31 August 2014. at 4PM BST (London time – you can check it here: LINK).

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International Master Attila Turzo the very first ever to start giving online chess lessons in the history of online chess lessons, he has over 13 years of experience of online chess coaching.

Discover what he will be covering in the webinar by watching the below video!

About the Attila Turzo’s WEBINAR :

Attila Turzo will explain the deep strategic plan involved in approaching the Minority Attack, from the very basic level to advanced techniques and ideas.Moreover, not only ideas – he will also introduce some of his novelties. Furthermore, he will discuss many transformations to these positions, like from the Queen’s Gambit Declined.

Key Highlights:

• Students can send their games regarding the Minority Attack on a first come, first served basis for analysis.
• Instead of lasting 1 hr,the duration of the lesson has been increased to 1.5 hrs. Based on the attendee’s feedback, we have made this huge change in the duration.
• Webinar will have three phases: Attila Turzo’s Lecture, Analysing students’ games and Live discussion with International Master Attila Turzo

Complications of the day

White was threatening to mate with Nh6 can black counter attack with Nf6?
 

After you have come up with your solution, you may compare your results by looking at the answer Here

A sportsman’s day in Russia

You are going to play White in all of these games.

Game #1

White’s turn

You can download all the games from this article here

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White has a dominating position and has several promising continuations. What is the most powerful way to end the game?

PLEASE, THINK ABOUT THE POSITION AND MAKE YOUR CHOICE. AFTER THAT YOU MAY CONTINUE READING.

Of course, White can grab the pawn 1.Qb7; however, there’s a much easier way for a win.

Remember this: the f7 square is the weakest point in Black’s position. White can take advantage of it in different opening lines.

That said, White can also play 1.Bc4-Rf8, 2.Rh8!

Game #1

 

Black’s turn

No matter what Black plays, White will continue with Qf7 on the next move. This wins the game immediately.

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Game #2

White’s turn

White is more active, but Black is a pawn up and has built defensive fortifications. Is there any way for White to break through?

At the end of this article, you’ll find a link to the solutions for all of the examples.

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Game #3

 

White’s turn

This is a funny example. This might be the shortest game I’ve ever played.

Obviously White is winning. Nevertheless, when you give a simul and have A LOT of games to play – you really need to beat weak opponents quickly. Then you’ll be able to focus on the games against tough rivals.

So, what is the quickest way for a victory?

Please think about that yourself, too, and then check the solution below.

The initial impulse is to capture Black’s bishop somehow (1.fe or 1.Ne7). However, White can deliver a smothered mate: 1.fg-Rg8, 2.Nf6#

Game #3

 

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The previous example was simple. Now let’s test your skills in a much more complex position.

Game #4

 

Black’s turn

When I played my last move 1.Rd7, honestly, I thought that Black should resign. White is attacking Black’s king side pawns, and if Black protects them somehow (1…Kf6, for instance) – White continues 2.Rb7 getting two connected passed pawns on the queen side.

Do you think Black actually resigned? Not at all! He found a sudden way “to stay in the game”. Can you find Black’s defensive idea?

At the end of this article, you’ll find a link to the solutions for all of the examples.

Game #5

 

White’s turn

It seems that White can win easily: 1.Bb5 (installing a pin) -Bb7, 2.Qc3

Black is losing his c6-knight and should resign, shouldn’t he?

Game #5

 

Black’s turn

Can you find any way for Black to escape?

In the above diagram, Black has a shocking move 2…Nd4! – getting a huge advantage!

Game #5

 

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Problem Of The Day

    WHITE TO MOVE

After you have come up with your solution, you may compare your results by looking at the answer here

The Greatest Chess Moves of 2014

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How to find a good chess coach?

I now have huge experience both as a chess student and as a teacher. So let me give you some hints.

A private chess coach should perform the following things for you:

1. Analyse your games and detect what you need to work on.
2. Develop your training plan.
3. Make on-line or real lessons.
4. Give you home tasks.
5. Answer your questions that arise via e-mails.
6. Check your last home task and provide feedback on your work.
7. Prepare a next on-line/real lesson based on your training plan and the current needs (that have been detected during items 1 and 5-6).
8. Think about your overall progress; make necessary corrections in your training plan.
9. Plan your participation in tournaments.
10. Keep track of the current situation in chess (read chess news, observe main tournaments, notice new tendencies, popular openings, etc.).

A private chess coach should perform all of these tasks regularly, even if you have only one chess class a week!

By using the above list of items, it will be easier for you to evaluate a certain coach and to decide if he/she is a suitable one for you.

Nowadays there are many web-sites which offer you the services of various chess coaches. Recently I visited one such site and read coaches’ descriptions. Some of them write something like “I am a very popular coach and I have 50+ private students”. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this…

Take a look at our list above. Is that possible to perform it for 50 students? Of course NOT!

In fact “50+ students” means that this person teaches all his students extremely superficially, and he spits upon them all! Does he really think this is his positive side? LOL

Let’s move on to the next piece of advice:

A private chess teacher should be a COACH

It’s not a joke. 

A strong player (IM or GM) can show you some opening lines, can play with you, BUT he can’t be your teacher.

Is he going to perform the coach’s duties (see our list above)? Of course not! He is not even aware of these duties…

Can a GM really understand your current problems and needs? Well, he was in your situation; HOWEVER, maybe it was 50 years ago!!

Another example is that a chess coach must collect useful games/positions that are suitable for training in a certain topic. Does a chess player have such collections for every important topic? No! He simply doesn’t need it.

There is a HUGE difference between being a chess player and a chess teacher. It requires different skills and knowledge. That’s why quite a lot of chess “coaches”, unfortunately, have no idea of how to teach.

So when you are looking for a private coach – select a real COACH.

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We’ve been talking about chess coaches, and I hope you are now much wiser about such matters. Now let’s take a look at a STUDENT. There’s one important thing that I’d like to emphasise here.

A student usually does NOT know what he/she really needs.

“To know the road ahead, ask those coming back”.

How can you know what you need in order to advance to the next level,

if you have never even been on that next level?

Naturally, you enjoy those parts of the game in which you perform well. And you may dislike those parts of the game that you are failing in. This is normal for all chess players.

Now, if you dislike defence, and you don’t know this topic well and it seems hard and uncomfortable for you – you’ll never master it. So here is where a coach should come and force you to do what you don’t want to do (the things he knows you NEED and MUST do). This will eliminate your weakness, will bring you nice victories and… you’ll start enjoying  defence! 

A student usually does NOT know what he/she really needs.

This is reality. You can admit it and go forward, or stick with your delusions. The choice is yours.

I recommend that you find a good coach and then rely on him.

Otherwise you’ll end up being in the same situation as most of other chess players. Here’s the most typical scenario: a coach who doesn’t know how to teach, satisfies the wishes of a student who doesn’t know what he needs.

Sadly, this is the most precise description of most chess lessons out there;, and it is also why a majority of players suffer from little and unstable progress.

However, now you have a better alternative!  You can follow the advice from this article and be ahead of the crowd!

If you don’t have good coaches in your area (or if they are simply too expensive for you) – you may also use my course “Self-taught Grandmaster”. It will act as a substitute for your coach and will allow you to organise for yourself an effective self-training process.

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What is the main factor of success in chess?

Chess is inherently a strategic game. That’s why strategic skills are the most important thing in chess. They allow you to understand what you should do in any position. Chess players usually call it “a chess understanding”.

In fact it is not so difficult to study some opening lines or theoretical endgame positions. Players experience biggest problems in complex middlegame positions, when they are not sure what to do.

Please, remember the strong chess players you know. How do they win against weaker players? They create complex strategic positions and gradually overplay an opponent. They use their better chess understanding.

So what is the problem?

Everyone heard about “a chess understanding”. So why didn’t everyone study it? There are 2 main reasons:

1) Most players don’t know what “a chess understanding” actually is.

A chess understanding mainly implies your planning skills. If you understand a position, it means that you know what to do here. Thus it means that you can find the right plan.

2) There are no educational materials about it.

It is the hardest topic really. It is very difficult to systematize knowledge about a middlegame planning and to integrate them in a clear practical system.
That’s why 99% of authors even don’t try to do it.How many chess books do you know, which offer an integrate system of a middlegame play?

Ok, Nimczowitsch’s “My system” is pertinent. Is there anything else? Well, there are a few other similar books, but anyway it is a very short list.
Nimczowitsch did a great work certainly. However his system is not full and quite difficult for a practical usage (even Nimczowitsch had some problems with that Laughing). Also a lot of time has gone since that time. Modern chess has developed a lot.

That’s why I decided to create the course
“Your Winning Plan”.

It took a long time and a lot of efforts to create such product. With pride I present you the final result.
The course “Your Winning Plan” gives you an integrate system of a middlegame planningUsing this unique method you will be able to find the right plan in any position.

This will give you a deep chess understanding and will make you not just a strong player, but an extremely strong one!

Chess course “Your Winning Plan”
contains the video lessons.

Introduction: “Important Generalities”.

This lesson will give you the essential information about a planning. After a study of this lesson you will know:

Why different strategic books don’t work in a practical game play.
Important generalities about a chess strategy.
Why is planning so important and what most players don’t understand.

What is the main difference between a strong player and a not so good one?
What strong players use to beat others?
What exactly is “a chess understanding” and how to develop it?
How to predict a game continuation for many moves ahead?

Lesson-1: “The Best Time for a Planning”.

In chess books you have probably seen the recommendation “to compose a plan in critical positions”. However they don’t say how to detect those critical positions. That’s why this trite rule is useless.

I will be telling you how Grandmasters really think in a practical game.
You will know the specific tips, which you will be able to apply right after a study of this lesson.

When should you compose a plan?
What should you do, when you don’t know how to play?
Typical mistakes of 95% of chess players.

How to simplify your thinking process and to make it more effective at the same time.
How Grandmasters find right moves so quickly?
4 type of situations when you should compose a plan.
What is a guideline in a planning?

Lesson-2: “How to Compose a Winning Plan”.

In this lesson I will tell you what exactly you should do and exactly how you should think to create the right plan.

The universal scheme, which allows finding the best plan in ANY position.
Which plan is the best in most positions?
The most important strategic rules regarding to the planning.

3 types of situations when you should attack on a side.
How to detect whether you should worry about an opponent’s plan or not?
Why the aggressive attacker players lose regularly? How to avoid their most typical mistake?
How exactly the center bears influence on a planning?

Lessons 3-7. Specific plans for different center types.

Everyone knows about a center and different center types. However, most players don’t know how to use such knowledge in a practical game.
In the lessons 3-7 we will analyze how the universal scheme of a planning (presented in the previous lessons) works in different typical positions.

Thus you will get the unique collection of the ready-made plans. In 95% of situations it will be enough for you to simply use one of1 these plans to win a game!

You will study the important specific rules for positions with different center types:

How to choose the right plan in any situation?
When to move pawns and when to avoid pawn moves?
How to make your plan really effective?

The best way to exploit the opponent’s weaknesses.
When it is possible to use a passive defense and when you have to create a counterattack?
What is wrong in Nimzowitsch’s “My system”?
The typical mistake in defense.

The common delusion about a planning.
When you should play vigorously and when you should not hurry up?
The practical advices to make your opponent’s life really hard!
And many more useful tips…

Lesson-8: “Two Universal Keys”

In this lesson I will give you 2 universal keys, which are applicable for any position. They will help you not just to create a plan, but to create the most effective plan.
Often it is enough to only use one of these keys to win a game without any problems.

Also we will continue training the universal scheme of a plan composition. You will see how it is possible to systematize separate positional rules to remember and to use all of them easily in a practical game.
This will help you to use your previous knowledge (from your past trainings) most effectively and to get practical effect from them.

Lesson-9: “How to Realize Your Winning Plan”.

In the previous lessons we have studied how to find the right plan. In this lesson you will learn how to realize that plan correctly. So you will master these things:

How Grandmasters always keep their pieces on the best squares?
How to organize your thinking process to get the best effect?
3 stages of planning, which you should perform to win a game.

I will show you in a real time mode how Grandmasters composes plans. You will see that it is not so hard actually (if you know the right way).
How to figure out the best way for the realization of your plan?

Lesson-10: “Grandmasters’ Secrets of Planning”.

Previous lessons were aimed for making you a strong player.This lesson will help you to become an EXTREMELY strong player!These advices are your guide “how to be on the TOP”.
This is probably the most powerful part of the course. I have never shared these secrets with a huge public and I doubt if any other GM ever decide to do it.

Why Grandmasters realize their plans more successfully than others?
How Grandmasters deals with hard situations?
Why Grandmasters win the games even after making mistakes?

We will compare (in a real time mode) the usual way of thinking (character for most players) and THE BEST way.
How to bend an opponent to your will?
Which plans have more chances to be realized?

Why players often fail in a realization of their plans?
How to get a really deep understanding of a position?
How it is possible to get the full control over the situation? This secret allows Grandmasters to get good results ALWAYS (while others suffer from instability).

What Grandmasters do, when they can’t find the right plan? (4 concrete ways)
How you can solve the problem of a defense very easily.
When experienced players offer a draw?

What Grandmasters do to win an equal position?
The recommendations for your further improvement.
And much more…

Chess course “Your Winning Plan”
contains the practical part.

I strongly believe that knowledge that you can’t apply practically are not just useless but actually harmful. Unfortunately this problem is typical for many chess books.
In the course “Your Winning Plan” you will find only the practical recommendations. You will also know what and exactly how you should do to use these principles in your tournament games.

The practical part of the course will help you to practice the course’s ideas and to get approptiate practical skills. Thusyou will improve your chess skills and will start winning more games right after a study of the course.
The practical part of the course contains:

106 special tasks and games for your training.

We will start from quite easy situations and then go to examples on the top Grandmasters’ level! After that you will be able to find your winning plan in any position.

The detailed instructions about what and how exactly you should train.

It will help you to train yourself properly and to get the best effect from the program.

The Grandmasters’ thinking process (planning) in a real-time mode.

So you will be able to copy the Grandmasters’ thinking process and to get similar practical results!

So when you start to study the course,
you will see the following graphic menu:

The graphic menu of the course (screenshot)

While studying the course, besides a chessboard, you will see text presentations which will help you to systematize and learn the course’s materials better.

Fragment of lesson 1: “The Best Time for a Planning”(screenshot)

Fragment of lesson 9: “How to Realize Your Winning Plan.” (screenshot)

Technical information

• You will get all the programs, necessary for using of the course. So you will definitely be able to open the course and use it properly.
• The course works under Windows platform only.
• The duration of the video lessons is 130 minutes.During these 130 minutes, I will be showing you how to use the unique method of finding your winning plan.
• You will get the text version of every video lesson also. If you like to read more than watch the video – you can do it easily.
• Even if English is not your first language, you will understand everything clearly. You will hear my voice, watch the video presentation, read the text, and you could simply use a dictionary if needed.
• You will get your special link for downloading the course after purchasing. So you do NOT need to pay an extra shipping fee and wait for several weeks to get the course. That’s whythe customers receive the course immediately after the purchase.
• The size of the whole course is approximately 70Mb, so you can download it quite quickly (it depends on your internet connection speed, but it should be less than 30 minutes).
• If you have any sudden technical problems – contact me and I will help.

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While reading chess books, I often was wondering how the authors can offer us numerous quantities of abstract rules?? Obviously there is no way to use such information practically. I think that it happens because the authors don’t feel RESPONSIBILITY for their work!

I give you the PRACTICAL system, which can (and should!) be applied right after the course’s study.

I am sure that you will REALLY increase your chess power, because this system was already tested by me and my pupils (and it proved its effectiveness!).

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If you do not realize (after the study of the course) how to apply the course’s skills, which I explained and if you do not make any progress – then I will refund you 100% of the price. Just contact me via the “contacts” section of this website, and you will receive the money back.

Unfortunately, if our teaching methods are not suitable for you, you might not be allowed to purchase any of our products in the future. You may read more details in ourrefund policy.

As usual, I bear responsibility for my work. I give you a firm money back guarantee.So it is a 100% advantageous investment for you, because all the risk is on me.This way, you can actually rip me off, but I believe in your honesty.

Chess course “Your Winning Plan”
contains these materials:

The video lessons (130 minutes).
The text version of every video lesson (for printing).
106 special tasks and games for your training.
The detailed instructions about what and how exactly you should train.
The concrete examples with commentaries about how exactly you should apply these recommendations.
All the programs necessary to use the course properly.