Master Your Chess with Judit Polgar - Part 3 - GM Judit Polgar

Tactics course by GM Judit Polgar & IM Andras Toth
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 14
Total Running Time: 11 hours 56 minutes

From the course:

A lot of chess players have great calculation skills. But creating positions where you can actually use them to execute a winning attack – that’s what separates strong players from world-class players.

And in the third installment of Judit Polgar’s Master Your Chess series, that’s exactly what you’ll learn to do.

Take the Initiative and Play Positional, Attacking Chess

The Hungarian Grandmaster and living legend showed you the basics of calculation and strategic play in Part 1, and attacks on the enemy king and exploiting weak squares in Part 2.

But in Part 3, she again joins forces with world-famous chess coach Andras Toth to teach you the most elusive skills needed to become a master of the attack: capturing the initiative.

With perfect example games and smart practical exercises, GM Polgar will teach you how to take control of the board and dictate the direction of the game by:

♛ Ripping open attacking paths for your pieces with masterful pawn breaks
♛ Sacrifice a piece or even a queen for positional domination
♛ Play openings that lend themselves to dynamic, attacking chess

Learn to Bring Home the Win with Solid Endgame Skills

But your attacks will not be limited to the opening and middlegame by any means – GM Polgar shows you how to navigate through even the most complex endgames to make sure you capture the full point in your games.

In the endgame chapters of the course, you won’t learn textbook “model positions” - you’ll actually learn how to play real endgames by analyzing how the pros do it. You’ll focus on:

♛ Playing the most common and often most challenging endgames in chess: rook endgames
♛ Same-colored bishop endings where a draw is anything but assured
♛ Using technique to convert advantages into points in a wide variety of endgame scenarios