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Ján Markoš
Ján Markoš, born in Banská Bystrica in 1985,
is a Slovak chess grandmaster, coach and author.
In 2000, he became European Under-16 Champion and won the first of his three Slovak Championship titles;
he earned the grandmaster title in 2007.
His book Under the Surface was named Book of the Year by the English Chess Federation in 2018.
Together with David Navara, he also wrote The Secret Ingredient: How to Live and Learn from Chess,
which received the FIDE Averbakh-Boleslavsky Award.
For ChessBase, Markoš writes the article series The Winning Academy,
presents the video column Practical Tips for the Tournament Player and produces the training series Middlegame Secrets.
In his work, he explains complex chess concepts through clear and practically applicable rules of thumb.
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In this video course, kings will play a role of strong and active pieces. We will explore how Kings can be helpful in defence and prophylaxis, or even in attack!
Knights add irrational content to any position. However, in this video tutorial you will learn how to tame them.
In this video course we will explore in depth some familiar concepts regarding the bishops. For example, everyone knows that a bishop-pair should grant him a positional edge.
Let us learn together how to find the best spot for the queen in the early middlegame, how to navigate this piece around the board, how to time the queen attack, how to decide whether to exchange it or not, and much more!
Let us explore together how the rooks should enter the game in the early middlegame, how they operate on open files and how they sometimes join a deadly attack, being transferred in front of the pawn chain and many more topics!
Let us learn together how to find the best spot for the queen in the early middlegame, how to navigate this piece around the board, how to time the queen attack, how to decide whether to exchange it or not, and much more!
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