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Jan Markos
Jan Markos is a Slovak chess grandmaster, coach, and author, a former European Youth Champion. His book “Under the Surface” won the ECF Book of the Year Award in 2018. His most recent chess book “The Secret Ingredient”, co-authored with GM David Navara, focuses on practical aspects of over-the-board play. For ChessBase he writes a column for the news "The winning Academy", has a magazine video column "Practical Tips for the tournament player" and now also a Fritztrainer series "Middelgame Secrets". Markos knows how to convert complex issues into rules of thumb that viewers can easily put into practice.
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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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