Panda Chess/Chess Strategy - Complete Training Course

  • $59 or 12 monthly payments of $5

Chess Strategy - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 56 Lessons

This course will bring your strategic understanding to a whole new level, allowing you to evaluate complex positions.

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What you'll learn 🧠

  1. A method to evaluate positions strategically

  2. Clearly understand the difference between chess strategy and chess tactics

  3. Know when to focus on strategic play

  4. Know when tactical play prevails over a strategic evaluation

  5. Improve your defensive skills

  6. Improve your attacking skills

  7. Save time evaluating positions by using your acquired understanding

  8. How to play when having a strategic advantage

  9. How to play when having a strategically worse position

  10. Dominate strategic sacrifices

  11. Improve your planning skills

  12. What makes one piece stronger than another one

  13. Dominate material imbalances

  14. Evaluate pawn structures

  15. Analyze the different types of pawns and their main advantages and disadvantages

Welcome to my "Chess Strategy - Complete Training Course"

Hello!

I am Manuel and I am happy to welcome you to my Complete Course about Chess Strategy, where we'll become better chess players by learning the fundamental ideas to evaluate chess positions.

Chess Strategy is a very broad topic, but here we'll take you step-by-step through engaging video tutorials and teach you a method to optimize your thought process. By working on practical activities in every section, we'll make sure that you'll test your new knowledge on instructive positions from the 3 stages of the game (opening, middlegame and ending).

Throughout the course, we cover all the ideas that will make you a better chess strategic player, including:

  • King Safety

  • When to Active the King

  • Passed Pawns

  • Isolated Pawns

  • Pawn Islands

  • Pawn Majorities

  • Good Knight vs Bad Bishop

  • Backward Pawns

  • Weak (and Strong) Squares

  • Initiative

  • Outposts

  • Bishop Pair Advantage

  • Pawn Breaks

  • Control of Light (or Dark) Squares

  • Good Bishop vs Bad Knight

  • Holes

  • Doubled Pawns

  • Isolated Pawns

  • Material Imbalances

  • Strategic Sacrifices

  • Piece Valuation

  • Hanging Pawns

By the end of the course, you will improve your overall skills as a chess player and you´ll also master strategic sacrifices, including pawn, exchange, minor piece and queen sacrifices.

Sign up today, and look forward to:

  • Video Lectures

  • Practical Activities

  • Downloads

  • A summary of the strategic ideas learnt in this course

  • Games for you to study

No risk for you

I'm so confident that you'll love this course that we're offering a FULL money back guarantee for 30 days!

What will you get from this course? 💪

  • A method to evaluate positions strategically

  • Clearly understand the difference between chess strategy and chess tactics

  • Know when to focus on strategic play

  • Know when tactical play prevails over a strategic evaluation

  • Improve your defensive skills

  • Improve your attacking skills

  • Save time evaluating positions by using your acquired understanding

  • How to play when having a strategic advantage

  • How to play when having a strategically worse position

  • Dominate strategic sacrifices

  • Improve your planning skills

  • What makes one piece stronger than another one

  • Dominate material imbalances

  • Evaluate pawn structures

  • Analyze the different types of pawns and their main advantages and disadvantages

Who this course is for: ❓

  • Players who want to learn chess strategy in ONE COURSE

  • Players who want to UNDERSTAND chess

  • Players who want to learn a METHOD to evaluate positions, without being overloaded with useless information

  • Players who don't know how to win positions in the long run or get an advantage in unfamiliar positions

  • Players who only know a few tricks to play in their chess games

What are the requirements for taking your course? ✔️

  • Have a good understanding of the chess rules

  • Any device with access to the internet

  • No extra software or material required

  • Ideally know chess notation, but this will be explained to students who are not familiar with it

  • $59 or 12 monthly payments of $5

Chess Strategy - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 56 Lessons

  • 5.5 hours of Video Lessons

  • 7 Activities

  • 11 Downloadable Resources

  • 3 Free Bonuses

  • Instructor Q&A

  • ♾️ Lifetime Access

Contents

Introduction to the Course

Introduction
Getting Started (What You Need to Do the Course)

Your Quick Guide to Chess Strategy

Learn the most important ideas to evaluate a position strategically.

Material and Better King
Preview
Pawn Structure
Warm-up
Preview
Solution
Outro

What is Chess Strategy?

Understand the difference between chess strategy and chess tactics and when one is more important than the other.

Intro
What is Chess Strategy?
When does Strategy Prevail?
Preview
Activity
Solution
Outro

Having a Better King

Quickly identify which side has a better king in a given position and when a king is ready to get active.

Intro
The Key to King Safety
Preview
Exploiting the Advantage
King Walks
When to Activate the King
Activity
Solution
Outro

Material

Know how to evaluate the real strength of each piece, in addition to knowing its standard value.

Intro
Standard Value of the Pieces
What Makes a Piece Stronger
Piece Value Through the Stages of the Game
Material Imbalances
Bishop Pair
Activity
Solution
Outro

Pawn Structure

Understand the different types of pawns that exist and know how to valuate if they are a weakness or a strength.

Intro
Isolated Pawns
Backward Pawns
Hanging Pawns
Doubled Pawns
Passed Pawns
Activity
Solution
Outro

Strategic Sacrifices

Correctly evaluate when to give material to get strategic advantages in return.

Intro
Pawn Sacrifice
Exchange Sacrifice
Minor Piece Sacrifice
Rook Sacrifice
Queen Sacrifice
Activity
Solution
Outro

Bring It All Together

In this final activity we'll analyze popular positions and use the tools learnt in the course to master them.

Intro
Activity
Solution

Next Steps

How should your chess path continue?

Next Steps
Bonus 1: Chess Strategy Summary
Bonus 2 - Strategic Masterpiece 1: My Kingdom for Two Passed Pawns
Bonus 2 - Strategic Masterpiece 2: Pawns Can't Move Backwards
Bonus 3: Games for You to Study

Get Your Free Bonuses 🎁

Free Bonus #1

Get a Summary 📋 of all the most important ideas from the course

Free Bonus #2

I analyze some of my Favorite Games 💎 using the ideas that we learned in the course

Free Bonus #3

Get a List of Instructive Games ⚔️ to study after doing the course

Hi, I'm Manuel

I have been studying chess for 25+ years and I've spent over 10 years in the online teaching world, refining how I work and trying to understand the changing needs of this place, which I see as the future of education. 

Our 100% Satisfaction Guarantee & Money-Back Promise

We want the investment in this course to be an absolute no-brainer for you - if you’re actually going to do the work 😉


“Do the work” technically involves completing the sections (including the activities). If you’ve done that and for whatever reason aren’t 100% happy with your experience, drop us an email (within 30 days of purchasing the course) and we’ll happily refund your entire payment. 

However, please note that the money-back guarantee only applies if you’ve completed the entire course and included your reason for the cancellation in the email.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who is this course for?

This course is great for chess players who want to learn chess strategy in one single course in a very structured and organized way.

If you don't know how to win positions in the long run or get an advantage in unfamiliar positions, this course was created for that.

What do I need to do the course?

All you need to do the course is access to the internet and motivation to learn!

Furthermore, I’ll provide all the resources on the course page itself, so you don’t need to download anything or go to another page to take the course. Optionally, I provide additional resources to download in PDF format.

How will I access the course?

The course can be accessed using any device (such as laptop, mobile and tablet).

You’ll be able to access the course online, where you’ll get lifetime access.

Simply open the course page (after buying it), select the lesson you want to watch and click on the play button to start the lesson (see example below).

After watching a lesson, select the next one or click on ➡️ below the lesson.

If you want to download the additional resources, simply click on them (see example below).

How can I buy it?

Buying the course is a simple process.

1) Go to the course page https://www.panda-chess.com/chess-strategy-complete-training-course and click on "Enroll now". You’ll be asked to enter your email to login or create an account.

If this is the first time that you log in, you’ll receive a verification code at the email address used to sign up.

Use this code to sign up for the first time.

If you already have an account associated with the email address that you entered, you will be asked to enter your password.

2) Once you logged in, if you have a discount code that has not been already applied, you can add it on the right side and click on "Apply":

3) It is now time to pay. You can pay using a card (debit o credit) or PayPal.

Depending on your location, you might have additional options such as Google Pay, Apple Pay, iDEAL and Stripe Link.

Enter your payment details, click on "I accept the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" and click on "Pay Now".

After the payment is correctly processed, you can now access the course!

If your account is a new one, your last step will be to simply create your permanent password and click on "Continue".

If you have any problems, do not hesitate to reach out to us at support@panda-chess.com.

What payment options are available?

You can pay using a card (debit o credit) or PayPal.

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If you're still doubting

Hear What Other Students Say

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"Exceptional course. Manuel Ocantos delivery is clear and easy to understand. You can use knowledge you gain immediately in your games. There is so much information present here. This course is well worth your time and money."

Uwe M.

"Recommended course for the beginner / intermediate player. Much focus is on pawn structures, which with king safety and activity of pieces make up the backbone of the course. Discussion of material is well covered, including when one should exchange or even sacrifice pieces, and maybe more importantly, when one should not. The explanations of various positions (including the ones from the activities) are detailed, without being overbearing. Nowhere does Manuel say something is "obvious", after all this is a course for those who wish to learn and not for those who already know."

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  • $59 or 12 monthly payments of $5

Chess Strategy - Complete Training Course

  • Course
  • 56 Lessons

  • 5.5 hours of Video Lessons

  • 7 Activities

  • 11 Downloadable Resources

  • 3 Free Bonuses

  • Instructor Q&A

  • ♾️ Lifetime Access