Yusupov's Chess School
Chess Evolution 1: The Fundamentals
Completes the Fundamentals level with combinations, positional themes, and mating patterns that round out a beginner's tactical and strategic toolkit.
Curriculum
Chapters 1–12
- Combinations involving bishops
- Diagonals
- Queen sacrifices
- Realizing a material advantage in a pawn ending
- Realizing a material advantage
- Attacking with queen and knight
- The open games
- Attacking with queen and rook
- Forced variations
- Attacking with queen and bishop
- Positional advantages
- Bishop against pawns
Chapters 13–24
- Attacking with queen and pawn
- Attacking
- Attacking with rook and bishop
- Knight against pawn
- Attacking with rook and knight
- Semi-open games
- Combinations involving promotion
- Mate in three moves
- Mating nets in the endgame
- The passed pawn
- Combinations involving files
- Queen against rook
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