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E-BOOK VERSION COMPILED BY PEKCHA 2 Chess teacher: Grandmaster Igor Smirnov The Grandmaster’s Positional Understanding 3 Contents A. Video Course Lessons Instructions For Video Lessons Lesson 1 – Positional Understanding Lesson 2 – A Look At The Positional Principles Lesson 3 – Step By Step Guide For A Practical Play Lesson 4 – Strategic Elements – Pawn Structures Lesson 5 – How To Take Charge Of Your Future? Lesson 6 – The Bishops And Company Lesson 7 – Other Chess Pieces And Important Rules 6 7 13 25 36 68 89 109 B. Practical Part Instruction For The Practical Part Task 1 (Part 1) Task 1 (Part 2) Task 1 (Part 3) Task 1 (Part 4) Task 2 (Part 1) Task 2 (Part 2) Task 2 (Part 3) Task 2 (Part 4) Task 2 (Part 5) Task 3 Task 4 Task 5 (Part 1) Task 5( Part 2) Task 6 Task 7 122 124 126 141 143 170 173 190 222 236 268 283 294 297 330 349 4 Contents Task 8 Task 9 Task 10 352 353 354 C. Bonus Lessons Lesson 1- Removing Obstacles Lesson 2- Your Questions Lesson 3 – Your Questions ( Part 2) Lesson 4 – Your Questions (Part 3) Lesson 5 – The Power Of Real Understanding 357 363 369 375 383 5 The Grandmaster’s Positional Understanding Video Course Lessons Part: 6 Chess teacher: Grandmaster Igor Smirnov The Grandmaster’s Positional Understanding Instructions for the video course I would like to give you a few recommendations, which will make your study of the video lessons more effective. Focus on a study. Turn off your mobile phone, music, TV etc. Stop (pause) a video lesson sometimes. When you stop the video, you can THINK about an interesting idea and digest it better. It is very important to do it. Print the text versions of the video lessons. When you think about different ideas of the course, you will see them at the same time. It is very helpful. After a study of one video lesson, please look through its text version. Pay attention to the enhanced font – it will help you to remember all the key ideas. Write the important ideas. While studying the video lessons you will find a lot of useful rules, principles and so on. Also you will probably make your own conclusions. If you write them, you will remember and classify them better. Make pauses. Your brain needs to have some free time to digest new information. Don’t try to study everything at once. Repeat the lessons. Study the lessons several times. Of course it is hard to remember a lot of information after a quick acquaintance. So you need to repeat it sometimes. 7 Chess teacher: Grandmaster Igor Smirnov The Grandmaster’s Positional Understanding Lesson-1: “Positional Understanding” Hi there! I am very glad to talk to you again. It’s me Igor Smirnov, International Grandmaster and chess coach, and I’m back with another instructive chess course that will surely take your game to the next level. So what precisely are we going to take a look at in this course? Within the pages and videos contained within this chess training course, we will tackle one of the most intriguing, most mysterious topics in chess - Positional Understanding. Have you watched top grandmasters and players comment and analyze their tournament games right after playing them? Yeah? I’m sure you have heard some of them say: “This is the most logical move that white should play” or something along the lines of “in this position, it’s natural to go there….” What’s baffling is that it’s totally unclear for you why this move is so “natural” and “obvious”! In many cases, people can only admire this Grandmaster who has a great positional understanding. Here is another typical situation: a Grandmaster outplays his weaker opponent slowly but surely. The Grandmaster did NOT unleash fancy t