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Build Up Your Chess 3: Mastery
Yusupov's Chess School

Build Up Your Chess 3: Mastery

Opens the advanced level with opening repertoire work against 1.d4 and the French Defense, alongside pawn structure strategy and calculation training.

Curriculum

Chapters 1–12

  • Combinations involving promotion
  • Evaluation of the position
  • Pawn endings
  • Rook against bishop
  • Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4
  • The isolated pawn
  • Playing against the isolated pawn
  • Simple tactics
  • The backward pawn
  • Bishop endings
  • French Defence
  • Training with studies

Chapters 13–24

  • Blockade
  • Drawing combinations
  • Opposite-coloured bishops
  • Opening repertoire for White with 1.d4 (Part 2)
  • The elimination method
  • Hanging pawns
  • Playing against hanging pawns
  • Simple tactics 2
  • Doubled pawns
  • Opening repertoire for Black against 1.d4
  • The comparison method
  • Rook against knight