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What you'll learn:

The Right Approach: create a solid Rook play! Learn to develop solid thinking when using rooks—activation, coordination, and exploiting open files to maximise your attack effect.
How Often Should I Trade?: Master the principles of trading rooks effectively. When to exchange and when to keep rooks on the board. Ace your game by avoiding common pitfalls of trading.
Win the Hanging Piece: Learn to identify and exploit opportunities for winning unprotected pieces with your rook, while calculating risks simultaneously.
Exchange Up / Exchange Down (Endgame): Understand when to exchange rooks in endgames and how to secure winning advantages by mastering the rook exchanges.
Checkmate with Queen: Make way for the queen, observe patterns, create tactics and claim victory all while avoiding common rookie mistakes.
Checkmate with Rook: The "Rook and King vs. King" method of checkmate is a must for every chess player. Get yourself a Know-how of these checkmate nuances.
Checkmating with a Knight/Bishop: Checkmating with a knight and bishop is somewhat an underrated skill, learn it using the "W" method with the master's guidance.
Checkmate with Rook and Queen: Very powerful checkmating patterns that combine both the rook and queen in action by exploiting weak king placements.
Double Rook Checkmate: Learn how to use two rooks together to create a solid plan to win the endgame. Drive the king in a corner and cherish your victory.
Guarding Against The Checkmates: Create your attacks while mastering your defences. Learn how to recognize and protect against the checkmating schemes of your enemy.
Final Test Review: Review all that was learned; get personal feedback on your strengths and weaknesses.

Amp up your game from basic principles and ideas associated with the Rook right up to advanced concepts of checkmate. By the end of this carefully curated course, you will be mastering rook-based strategies and tactics that enhance your chess game. It will be topped by a final test to assess your understanding. Here's a breakdown of the sessions.

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The Right Approach

Develop solid thinking when using the rook. Learn how to appraise positions when to use the rook—when to activate the rook—and when to coordinate a rook with other pieces, to maximise the final impact of your attack. Now, the emphasis is on the great power that, the rook can have in the open file, targeting weaknesses and supporting the passed pawns.

How Often Should I Trade?

Knowing when to trade rooks is necessary to maximise their value. This lesson will let you understand the principles of trading properly, where you must make the tough choices of when to trade rooks and when to leave them on the board. It will also cover common pitfalls players find themselves into while exchanging material prematurely and its impact on the endgame.

Win the Hanging Piece

Understand how to identify and exploit opportunities to win hanging pieces with the rook. It is going to be all about identifying tactical opportunities where opposing pieces are unprotected or inadequately covered. The session will also look at some more complicated situations where capturing can be coupled with some level of calculated risk, which is very helpful in giving players a solid sense of initiating exchanges.

Exchange Up / Exchange Down (Endgame)

Rook exchanges play a critical role in many endgames, and this session will help the player understand when to exchange up or down with the rooks to secure a winning advantage. It will provide you with insight into how to defend against rook-based strategies and turn the endgame in your favour.

Checkmate with Queen

Learn common patterns for using the Queen of the game to your advantage, all while avoiding the common pitfalls. An understanding of basic King and Queen checkmate patterns will be established, as well as the mistakes you should avoid while handling your queen.

Checkmate with Rook

A checkmate technique that must be mastered is the "Rook and King vs. King," and it is this session that simplifies the technique into baby steps for you. The learners will be able to learn systematically how to drive their opponents' king down the board to the edge, checkmate them using only the rook and the king, and without falling for the common mistakes.

Checkmating with a Knight/Bishop

A powerful yet underrated skill of checkmating with a knight and bishop. Nosedive into the "W" method: how the knight and bishop cooperate with the king to effect a checkmate. Step-by-step practices and exercises will include how to apply the difficult technique.

Checkmate with Rook and Queen

Involving combinations with both the queen and the rook, many painful checkmates occur in the game of chess. In this session, we explore numerous checkmating patterns using these two pieces, focusing on their usage in a very coordinated and efficient manner. Learn and master how to exploit the weak King position in this session.

Double Rook Checkmate

Sure, have heard the quote “TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE”, this session will make you believe in it. Explore the strength of two rooks working side by side. The class will be taught how the double rooks can drive the opponent's king into a corner and eventually checkmate the piece. Master your rook endgame by the end of this session.

Defending Against The Checkmates

The art of attack falls flat if you can’t defend your fort first. This session is all about teaching players how the recurring checkmating patterns can be avoided. If one knows how the checkmating mechanisms work it should be easier to stay out of them. Defences that will be taught will include counterplay chances, resourceful stalemates, and how important the activity of the king is in defence.

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Reviews

Samay Mehta

4.5

19 Aug,2023

Learning with Mahi sir is fun because he explains it in a really good way. He is able to correct my mistakes very easily as he is a AIM in chess. He makes you use many concepts and teaches you about the tactics that are necessary at your level. The platforms he uses to teach are very efficient and fun. I am always happy to learn from him. ...

Jay Patel

07 Sep,2023

I have enjoyed learning chess with Mahi sir very much. Over a period of a year, my chess rating has skyrocketed from a mere 900 to a respectable amount of 1800. This has allowed me to do many things like being one of the best players in my high school, giving me an extracurricular activity for college applications, and also allowing me to gain volu ...

Revarth Agarwal

21 Sep,2024

Mahi sir is the best!! I started playing chess with him and loved it so much , right now I am on king pawn endgame and soon I will improve my middle game with Mahi sir. Chess is fun learning from him. ...

Shreeram Rohit Lokhande

4.5

22 Sep,2024

I have learned playing Chess from Mahi Sir. He explains the concepts and methods in very simple and easy way. Playing Chess with Sir is fun!! I really enjoy the game. ...

Tanush choudhary

4.5

22 Sep,2024

I love learning chess from Mahi sir. He explains everything very nicely and makes chess hard to easy. I have learned tactics , openings and 100 of things by Mahender sir. ...

Shlok banthia

29 Sep,2024

I enjoy learning chess with Mahendra sir. Combination of good guidance and good teacher...he understands the mood of children and change its pattern accordingly. ...

Raaraa Luthra

06 Oct,2024

Thank you sir for your wonderful classes. you have taught me a lot of tactics and strategies with a lot of love and patience. Thank you so much for being the BEST! ...

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