Yusupov's Chess School
Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics
Builds strategic understanding with chapters on weak points, the bishop pair, open files, and rook endgames.
Curriculum
Chapters 1–12
- Attacking the king
- The open file
- Minor tactics
- Opening repertoire for White – the French Defence
- Simple rook endings
- Fighting against the pawn centre
- Trapping pieces
- Calculating short variations
- Weak points
- Line blocking
- Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4
- Simple rook endings 2
Chapters 13–24
- Blocking combinations
- The bishop pair
- Typical mistakes in calculating variations
- Removing the defence
- Good and bad bishops
- Closed openings
- Line clearing
- Endgame technique
- Blockade
- Dragging the king out
- Reti/English Opening
- Typical mistakes in the endgame
In this series
Book 1
Build Up Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
Book 2
Boost Your Chess 1: The Fundamentals
Book 3
Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals
Book 4
Build Up Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics
Book 5
Boost Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics
Book 6
Chess Evolution 2: Beyond the Basics
Book 7
Build Up Your Chess 3: Mastery
Book 8
Boost Your Chess 3: Mastery
Book 9
Chess Evolution 3: Mastery