IM Atalik leaves no stone unturned in improving your game. The insights and advice contained in the Ekaterina Atalik Method will save you from years of hit-and-miss learning and give you powerful ideas and training methods you can put into practice right away.
Chess Strategy for Club Players: The Atalik Master Method
IM Ekaterina Atalik
The game of chess is usually broken down into 3 distinct stages – the opening, middlegame, and endgame. To become a strong player, you need to master all 3. After all, getting an advantage out of the opening is no use if you can’t convert it in the endgame.
In this superb 15-hour chess strategy training program, IM Ekaterina Atalik, one of the world’s top 30 female players, reveals her method for improving play in each of these stages.
Follow the 3 key opening principles – but not dogmatically.
Know your terrain in the most essential pawn structures and find a plan in any middlegame position.
Acquire grandmaster-level knowledge of theoretical endgames.
IM Atalik leaves no stone unturned in improving your game. The insights and advice contained in the Ekaterina Atalik Method will save you from years of hit-and-miss learning and give you powerful ideas and training methods you can put into practice right away.
Introduction: About this course
Part 1: Chess Openings
Introduction
Chapter 1: Center
Part 1: Wenjun – Zhongyi
Part 2: Grischuk – So
Chapter 2: Development of the Pieces
Part 1: Topalov – Ponomariov
Part 2: Kramnik – Leko
Part 3: Schweitzer – Atalik
Chapter 3: King Safety
Part 1: General Ideas
Part 2: Najer – Bocharov
Part 3: Topalov – Ivanchuk
Chapter 4: Gambits
Part 1: Jobava – Grischuk
Part 2: Fedorov – Shirov
Chapter 5: Exceptions In The Opening
Part 1: Atalik – Krush
Part 2: Aronian – Kramnik
Part 3: Lasker – Miesis
Part 2: Middlegame Strategy
Introduction
Chapter 6: Isolated Pawns
Part 1: Baglan – Atalik
Part 2: Rodshtein – Zifroni
Part 3: Bu – Guseinov
Chapter 7: The Small Center
Part 1: Capablanca – Chajes
Part 2: Polugaevsky – Tal
Chapter 8: Hanging Pawns
Part 1: Bernstein – Capablanca
Part 2: Rubinstein – Nimzowitsch
Part 3: Fischer – Spassky
Chapter 9: Piece Activity
Part 1: Svetushkin – Yue
Part 2: Lasker – Janowski
Chapter 10: Castling on Opposite Sides
Part 1: Short – Kasparov
Part 2: Atalik – Yildiz
Part 3: Endgame Play
Introduction
Chapter 11: Fundamental Rook Endgames
Part 1: Theoretical Rook Endgames (1)
Part 2: Theoretical Rook Endgames (2)
Part 3: Capablanca – Menchik
Part 4: Theoretical Rook Endgames (3)
Chapter 12: Bishop Endgames
Part 1: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: General Rules and Ideas (1)
Part 2: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: General Rules and Ideas (2)
Part 3: Opposite-Colored Bishop Endgames: Defensive Ideas
Part 4: Endgames with Bishops of the Same Color (1)
Part 5: Endgames with Bishops of the Same Color (2)