Yusupov's Chess School
Build Up Your Chess 2: Beyond the Basics
Opens the intermediate level with opening repertoire ideas, deeper pawn endgame technique, and classic sacrificial patterns such as the Greek gift.
Curriculum
Chapters 1–12
- Mating combinations
- General endgame principles
- Combinations involving the back rank
- General opening principles
- The double attack
- Good and bad bishops
- Candidate moves
- The centre
- The pin and the discovered attack
- Zugzwang
- Deflection
- The Greek gift sacrifice
Chapters 13–24
- Evaluating the position
- Planning in chess
- An opening repertoire for White after 1.e4 e5
- Destroying the castled position
- An opening repertoire against 1.e4
- Exchanging
- Priorities when calculating variations
- Pawn endings 1
- Decoying
- Time in the opening
- Improving the position of your pieces
- Pawn endings 2
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