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How to create and occupy outposts that paralyze the enemy position. 3. Psychology and the "Second Wind"

Make small, quiet moves (like h3 or Kh1) that take the sting out of a future counter-attack. Limit the mobility of the opponent’s best-placed piece.

The hallmark of a master is —the art of preventing your opponent's ideas before they even manifest. We will analyze classic games from Tigran Petrosian and Anatoly Karpov to understand how to: Identify the opponent's most "active" idea.

Chess is a battle of nerves. In this lesson, we discuss the transition from the middlegame to the endgame. Many players relax once the queens are off the board—that is exactly when a Grandmaster strikes. We will cover:

How to "saturate" the board with problems until the opponent eventually cracks.

Go through your last three losses. Don’t look for where you hung a piece. Instead, find the moment your opponent started a plan that you ignored.