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What you'll learn:

The Open File
Diagonal Dominance
The Supreme Attacker
Knight Attacks and the Fork Master
The Unsung Heroes
The Fine Art of Evasion
Block the Blow
Strike Back
Strength In Numbers
Counter-attack
Final Test Review

Master the art of both Attack and Defence. A journey focused on illustrating to players how to attack and create defences with each of the board pieces, from the queen of the board down to the lowly pawn. Here's an in-depth look at what will be covered in each session.

Mahendra Rathore

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Requirements:

The Open File

Learn to maximise the potential of a rook by controlling the open files and ranks. This will mainly be about doubling rooks, creating batteries, and exploiting weaknesses in the opponent's pawn structure. Players are to learn how to use the rook not as another heavy piece but more like a precise tool in the attack, holding the power to turn your game.

Diagonal Dominance

Master integrating your bishops as part of a bigger plan for creating long-range threats for your enemy. Learn to place your bishops in ways that dominate central diagonals, pinning opponent pieces and putting pressure on the enemy king. The mighty bishop pair is also examined as to how best to use it in the middle game.

The Supreme Attacker

The most powerful piece on the chessboard, capable of changing the tides in a game. This session has to do with using the queen for threats of such a nature that a fellow piece or a combination thereof will be incapable of parrying it effectively, besides allowing the execution of complex combinations. It will teach the learners how to decide when and how the queen-led attack transitions into checkmate.

Knight Attacks and the Fork Master

Knights being the most awkward pieces on the board they jump and check from everywhere. This will show players how to make full use of the awkwardness of the knight: how to produce forks and exploit squares from where they cannot be captured in return, and how to facilitate tactical shots by other pieces. In particular, this session will focus on producing a concept of outposts and how they can be used to post knights in dominant positions.

The Unsung Heroes

The king and pawns are too often underrated, yet they can prove to be very potent attackers—especially the king—in the endgame. In this session, we will see how players can utilize the more active use of the king, specifically in pawn storms and attacking formations, while concentrating on pawn structure and how to fashion passed pawns to put pressure on the opponent.