This week on Chessable, everything seems to lead back to one main idea:
Stronger equivalent foundation more stable development.
The simple lessons you learn now will not only help in your next few games. They keep paying you back long after. Sharpens your sense of position, makes tactics easier to spot, and even increases your win rate over time.
You’ll find plenty of such insights in our roundup!
Starting everything…
The Chessable Community Sale has started! It’s full of more than 300 courses stand out up to 40% off..
Many of them are written by community authors who tackle the same chess problems we face.
And because they’ve experienced those hardships themselves, they often offer the simplest, most obvious fixes — even ones that GM might have missed.
But there was one course that stood out this year, and it won Best Community Chess Course Award 2025.
Chess players, we present…
Principles & Practicals 1.e4 (for Club Players) by Benner
This “dual lens” repertoire wins up to 75%. It uses a rapid chess database to find moves that are easy to play under pressure… then compares them to master-level play to make sure they hold up. The result? A repertoire that gets stronger as the rating rises!
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Simultaneously with this sale, 3 big names in chess development are also returning to Chessable. Check out their latest releases:
The Complete Guide to Positional Chess – Volume 2 by GM Peter Svidler
Three super grandmasters teach you how to command your pawns and pawns like a general. Based on the national training course to reach 2000-2200, you can study the manual from start to finish, or use it as training on request from 6-time World Championship candidates.
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Beyond the Basics 1: Improve Your Chess with Quality Chess & by GM Artur Yusupov
Former world No. 3 Artur Yusupov gives your chess the structure needed to reach expert level. Through 24 practice-driven chapters and graded tests, he builds your 6 core chess skills. So, you don’t become a player who shines in one area, then declines in the next area.
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Getting Started: Queen’s Step Accepted
This repertoire against 1.d4 frees you from the “must defend the center” mental trap. Instead, you quickly open lines, develop attacks and employ sharp tactics. In some lines, you destroy White’s pawn structure before move 10. So, even deep into the end of the game, you are still pressing to win!
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You may have heard of the Russian Chess School.
You see it in many books and chess courses. And generation after generation, it has helped produce grandmasters and world champions.
But what happened heReally?
Is this actually a network of elite schools… or a culture that teaches players how to think about chess from the start? And what makes names like Botvinnik and Dvoretsky so important?
8 times champion of Russia Peter Svidler tells it all in this YouTube video.
That concludes our roundup. See you in the next one.
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