Micro-Plans II: Mastering Piece Productivity - GM Swapnil Dhopade

Strategy course by GM Swapnil Dhopade
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 6
Total Running Time: 3 hours 14 minutes

From the course:

Elevate Your Pieces To Peak Performance And
Watch Them Win The Game

Transform any of your knights, bishops, rooks, and queen… into the point-clinching hero of the match. This premier Indian chess coach gives you his complete piece-by-piece guide.

Your instructor for this course is none other than Grandmaster Swapnil Dhopade — a self-taught player turned full-time chess pro.

He’s enjoyed impressive results over the board, including a bronze medal and a 2768 performance rating at the 2017 Isle of Man International.

But while Dhopade's playing strength is beyond doubt, he shines the brightest as a coach.

He was the former coach of India’s women’s team, and helped young talented players realize their potential. And as an author, he also brought us a comprehensive guide to winning pawn play, Micro-Plans I: Mastering Weak Pawns.

Today, Dhopade draws from his rich experience to show you how to…

Gain A Winning Edge By Maximizing
Your Pieces' Activity And Effectiveness

Everyone can recognize an effective piece, yet the process of creating one is still a mystery for many. And when one struggles to activate their pieces, timid play follows while the opponent takes over the game.

But you won’t have to worry about that…

Because with Micro-Plans II: Mastering Piece Productivity, you’ll know how to elevate your pieces to peak performance.

Through 113 complete games and excerpts, the course takes an in-depth look at the knights, bishops, rooks and queen — and the exact techniques to maximize their impact in the game.

Here's are some of the most instructive highlights of the course:

⚡ The three ways to activate any piece. Keep this list handy, and you’ll never have to worry about passive pieces again.

⚡ Who needs weak squares? Chapter one shows you some sneaky ways to “manufacture” outposts for your knights… even when the opponent has all of their bases covered.

⚡ A more powerful duo than the famous queen-and-bishop battery. The perfect companion makes your bishop impervious against attacks and amps up its firepower.

⚡ Dual-purpose pawn sacs… which imprison the opponent’s bishop, while yours reigns supreme over the diagonals.

⚡ How to bring your rooks into the game… without moving from their starting squares. A slick way to accelerate an attack on the flanks.

⚡ WARNING — Greed kills! Why chasing or defending pawns is suicide in rook endings. Even strong titled players need to be reminded of this lesson the hard way.

⚡ How to organize your heavy pieces… so that they exert maximum pressure on an open file.

And many more.