Become a Positional Master in Chess

Today we’ve opened enrolment to one of our best courses “The Grandmaster’s Positional Understanding” in which you will learn all the elements of positional play in chess. This course is for anyone who wants to:

• Understand everything about positional chess strategy. With this, you will understand how to play REAL chess and how to think during a real game!
• Learn the SECRETS of REALLY strong players: the most important strategic and positional rules that enable them to demolish the opposition.
• Learn how strong players of the past and present use these important strategic rules in their games and win even against the strongest opponents.
• Train so that you will UNDERSTAND chess at a very deep level and make sure you are able to apply this understanding in your games… ALL THE TIME!
• Work with other students on a private group assisted by me (GM Igor Smirnov)

After careful study of this course, you will finally have what it takes to be one of the VERY few (about 1 to 3 percent) STRONG chess players and play the game at a VERY high level!

Special Offers

The enrolment will be open for a limited time only, till Tuesday 27 September (included). To celebrate this great occasion, we’re providing you with some amazing offers:

• Huge discount: You can get the course with a huge 50% discount, saving about 70 USD!
• Bonus courses: By enrolling to the course during this time, you will get my courses “Attack and Win” (worth 89 USD) and “Self-taught Grandmaster” (worth 129 USD) for FREE!
• Interact with the community: Buyers will be invited to a private Facebook group where they will be assisted (by GM Igor Smirnov) and also be able to learn with other students
• Combo offer: Understand chess like a Pro, reach 2000 Elo to be on the top 5% of chess players, and save 137 USD. Get both my courses “GM’s Positional Understanding” and “3 Steps to 2000 ELO” for just 99 USD!

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A few days ago, I published a video lesson about the Queen’s Gambit chess opening for White. A lot of you (the RCA students) have asked me to talk about the opening from Black’s perspective. Therefore, today we will learn how to play the Queen’s Gambit as Black.

It is one of the most classical, solid chess openings for Black. It was played by pretty much all the world champions, including Magnus Carlsen, Bobby Fischer, and Garry Kasparov.

This solid chess opening will serve you for lifetime; it works from beginner to advanced level, even to the level of world champions. Additionally, you secure yourself from any early opening tricks and attacks by your opponent.

Hopefully, it will be easier for you to play this opening after this video as I’m going to give a complete overview of all the opening moves and common middlegame plans.

You can find the PGN of this opening below: