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Stomp With The Tromp In Under 200 Lines. Trompowsky: Simplified is a full 1.d4 repertoire for the busy club player. Its key move “bishop to g5” not only sets up unexpected angles of attack, but also slashes reams of must-know theory from your opening study. Here are 3 reasons why it’s wickedly effective…

Call White's Bluff by Putting the Pressure on from Move 2. If you want a top coach preparing your openings, you should probably do what the Indian national team did - get GM Srinath Narayanan in your corner. Fresh off of leading India to the Olympiad gold medals in 2024, this is Srinath’s 4th Chessable course and the Queen’s Gambit Accepted is his solid, practical recommendation.

The Berlin Defense is For Everyone. Imagine spending 15 years of your career banging your head against a rock-solid opening, struggling to get an advantage with the white pieces and even losing crucial games against your biggest rivals. You’d be forgiven for wanting to avoid that opening for the rest of your life but IM Irina Bulmaga took a different approach.

Starting Out: Caro-Kann meets 1.e4 with the iron-clad pawns and nimble pieces of 1…c6. Every major variation distilled into 5 easy-to-remember prompts. So you can consistently equalize against anything thrown your way — and press for more beyond the opening.

Your Intro to the Fightingest Opening Against 1.d4. There’s no reason to be afraid of 1.d4 if you’re armed with GM Ben Finegold’s Starting Out: Nimzo-Indian Defense. The Nimzo-Indian remains popular at the top levels - but it's a logical opening based on strong principles, so it's the perfect introduction to openings for beginners. You'll be well armed against White's most frequently played 1.d4 systems.

Every chess player needs to decide this: how will you face the Sicilian Defense? The Sicilian is the most aggressive reply to 1.e4. Studying it deeply is imperative, but its sharp nature and theoretical burden don’t help the White player's cause. Mastering it seems impossible sometimes. Sometimes, though, a well-known Sicilian destroyer gives you his strategical blueprint and opens the door to your Sicilian success. Now you can copy it and never worry about the Sicilian evermore.

Breaking Down the Principles of Pawn Play with a US Champion. Pawn moves are irreversible. This simple but harsh truth makes pawn play among the most difficult aspects of chess strategy, which is one reason few books have been written about this topic – and some that have are almost incomprehensible.

Learn When to Sacrifice a Pawn to Empower Your Pieces. Some of the greatest games in history have featured a master player sacrificing a pawn at the right moment, activating their pieces into an explosive attack. But many players below master level lack this essential chess skill, reluctant to sacrifice concrete material just for activity or positional compensation. That all changes with this course!

The third installment of Grandmaster Johan Hellsten's acclaimed strategy courses is the last piece to a perfect strategic education. Endgames are the most challenging part of chess. Just one wrong move, and the outcome of the game can be irreversible. And somehow, it's the part of the game that chess players study the least. That's why endgame mastery will give you a substantial advantage over your competitors.

Spot Tactical Themes in an Instant With This Unique System. Have you ever been in a situation where you know there’s a tactic somewhere in the position but you just can’t find it? Train Your Tactical Vision by FM Viktor Neustroev could be the solution to your problem. In this course, FM Neustroev focuses on helping you to recognize and understand each tactical theme, reinforcing your pattern recognition and guiding you towards the right idea in any position.

The Definitive Chess Strategy Course. “Should I launch the attack, or do I need more preparation?” “Should I trade this bishop for that knight?” “Should I change the pawn structure, or keep it?” Such questions dominate the making of chess strategy, but general rules of thumb you learn here and there are difficult to apply in every circumstance. Chess strategy can only be mastered by knowing when to apply which concept in a given scenario - and to do that, you need a rich understanding of many types of positions.

The Positional Puzzle Book That Helps You Find Strong Moves Faster! Strategy is something many players neglect in their training, even though it can dramatically improve your overall strength. Positional understanding often leads to faster, more reliable decisions than brute calculation or even memorization.

In this digital age, just about everyone and their pets can create digital images. But if you're interested in creating truly professional-looking and high quality images, you need to understand the basic principles of digital as well as pre-digital photography. Our expert trainer, Matt Vanacoro shows you the way in this introductory course.

It all starts with a script. That's why this course begins with the all-important script breakdown. Siobhan teaches you how to approach a new script. She walks you through all the different initial stages of planning, sketching and developing story ideas. She shows you how to discover the important story points and develop shot sequences. In the process, you learn about staging & composition and choosing the proper camera angles to reinforce the intention of the script.

Advertising is everywhere and advertisers often employ powerful (and sometimes questionable) techniques to grab your attention and get their message across. These techniques can be so powerful, that throughout the course, Mark makes a point of stressing the importance of using them for good versus evil!

Good design is based upon a solid understanding of form and function. It's true that some great artists seem to have been born with an inherent sense of these concepts. However, most designers need to digest these "truths", practice them and absorb them in order to integrate them with their workflow and make them second nature!

In this introductory course, you get an overview of the origins, history and processes of design spanning from the prehistoric Chauvet cave paintings to the subliminal techniques deployed in current advertising. Follow along as design guru, Mark Gatter, explains the story of design and how it impacts our daily lives and culture.

The production is over. The actors are gone. The tech crew is off on another shoot. Now it's just up to you (with a pile of hard drives) to figure out how to put it all together. That's the job of the editor.

The director is the single most important role in the filmmaking process. From scripting to shooting, editing and post production, no one has more involvement with the success of a film project than the director. This course, designed by award-winning filmmaker Michael Wohl, reveals and explains the process of being a successful director.

Being a Cinematographer is a lot like being a great musician: You've got to practice lots of technical skills before you can apply them to your art. But once you own these skills, they become your filmmaking palette, enabling you to capture perfection when you're behind the lens! So, who better to learn them from than the renowned filmmaker/educator Michael Wohl?!