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Chess Evolution 3: Mastery
Yusupov's Chess School

Chess Evolution 3: Mastery

The capstone volume of the course, presenting advanced strategy and calculation chapters that bring together the full training program.

Curriculum

Chapters 1–12

  • Desperadoes
  • Static advantages
  • The comparison method
  • Rook against two minor pieces
  • Open games
  • The minority attack
  • Complicated combinations
  • Fortresses
  • Complex positions
  • The transition to the middlegame
  • The bishop pair
  • Shutting out a piece

Chapters 13–24

  • Playing against pieces
  • Principles of rook endings
  • Playing for traps
  • Castling on opposite sides
  • Pawn chains
  • Transition from the opening to the ending
  • Exchanging queens – the transition to the ending
  • Outposts for knights
  • Having a plan
  • Pirc and Modern Defences
  • Complex positions 2
  • Queen endings