Magnus Carlsen: World Chess Champion for a reason!

Is there any chess player in the world who wouldn’t be curious to learn from the Norwegian chess prodigy, the number one player in the world and the current World Champion Magnus Carlsen? ðŸ™‚ The day has come – our new course “Magnus Carlsen: The Journey of a World Champion” is released today!

Why this course?

magnus carlsen journey of world championIt is important to know about the history of chess and analyzing games of the best chess players. In order to make your game deeper, it is important to learn new techniques and ideas, especially from great players. As said, learning from great players really helps us a lot. And Magnus Carlsen is sure not a player to be missed out on this ‘Elite’ category; his achievements say it all!

Carlsen’s style of play

The goal of this course is to analyse Carlsen’s style and help you incorporate them in YOUR games. Throughout the videos, the author IM David Miedema will present moments with special exercises which are defining for the wonderful style of Magnus.
magnus carlsen style of playAdditionally, to record a few hours of video lessons, David made around 50-hours research to understand deeply Carlsen’s playing techniques. I enjoyed these lessons. Although we invite guest authors, I and our RCA team are always participating in preparing the lessons, and I keep an eye on guest author’s work to make sure the course is up to your expectations.

Special offers

To celebrate the release of the course and the wonderful journey of Magnus Carlsen, we’ll provide you with some amazing offers. ðŸ™‚
Offer-1:
You can get a huge 25% discount on the course. This will be a limited-period offer and will be valid from today till Thursday, 27 July. Simply use the coupon “mc25” and it will save you more than $12 USD! If you don’t know how to use a discount code, please see here.
Offer-2:
If you purchase the course “Magnus Carlsen: The Journey of a World Champion” within the offer period (24-27 July) you will get the premium video “Press your opponents like Carlsen” (worth $20 USD) completely FREE! ðŸ™‚
If you have already bought that premium video, then you can contact us after the purchase of the course and you will be able to get any other video from the “GM Smirnov Bundle”.
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Finally, I’d like to share with you a video our RCA Team has prepared about Magnus Carlsen’s wonderful journey. It’s a short video explaining about Carlsen’s crucial and major achievements in chess – you may also learn some facts about Carlsen that you didn’t know before. ðŸ™‚ You can watch the video below:



Important note: You can study the course on ANY device (even on the non-windows device). We’re providing you with the course in e-book format (PDF) and you can study the video lessons separately as well. You can watch the tutorial video in the FAQ here.
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3 important principles of pawn storm


The pawn storm is generally regarded as a situation in which the pawns form a ‘chain’ are creating a ‘storm’ with the main aim of attacking the opponent’s king by opening lines (files) for attack. Pawn storm often facilitates sudden tactics and fiercely sacrifices that allow one to deliver a successful attack against the opponent’s King.
There are certain important principles you should keep in mind when you want to attack your opponent’s king with a pawn storm or to successfully defend your opponent’s pawn storm. What are they? 🙂





you may like to see IM Asaf Givon’s lesson on “5 most important attacking principles”.
Today our guest coach IM Asaf Givon will share these secrets with you. He has prepared a very instructive video in which he will share the ideas that helped him to play in this strong and competitive manner. You can watch the video below:


Summary


  •  Put your King to the other side of the board (opposite to the side of your ‘pawn storm’) before starting the pawn storm
  • When your opponent starts a pawn storm on one side, you should close the lines (files) there
  •  Try to exchange your opponent’s key defensive piece – eliminating the defender

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you may like to see our lesson on “Basic conditions for a successful attack” which also deals with the pawn storm and the pawn islands.

    Author information
    IM Asaf Givon

    Asaf Givon is an International Master from Kfar Saba, Israel. His age is 22 and playing chess since 7. He is also playing for the Kfar Saba team in the first Israeli Chess League. He got the IM title in 2013, and ever since then, he is on the road to achieve the GM title. He currently has 2 norms.

    He is teaching chess since he was 16 and he’s always very happy to teach people and to spread his love to the game.



    P.S. Have you won any game(s) with pawn storm or successfully defended your opponent’s pawn storm? 🙂 Please write in the comments below.



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    4 simple ways to deal with time trouble!

    Recently, I have received a couple e-mails from my students who are having a hard time dealing with time trouble. And if you are one of those chess players who experiences problems with this dilemma often, then you are in for a treat. Right here, I will lay down certain tips and tricks that will help you combat this over-the-board (OTB) problem. ðŸ™‚
    Very often, we see the following situation: a player plays a good game, gets an advantage, but then appears in a time trouble! Under the time pressure, he makes an annoying mistake and even loses in the end!
     
    chess timeSuch a situation is certainly frustrating. And the recommendations I’m about to give will help set yourself free from the chains of the time trouble.

    1) First and foremost, there is a great difference between thinking and having doubts:

    In most cases, a chess player THINKS only during the first few minutes after the opponent makes his move. After that, he starts to check the SAME variations again and again. Not contented, he starts to worry about the consequences, and try to find 100% ideal move, and the cycle goes on and on.
    Guess what? This cycle doesn’t help at all! This only creates chaos in his head and totally mixes things up. Finally, after going through the same variations, worrying about the consequences, and vainly searching for the perfect move, he does something ridiculous… and you should know what happens next.
    What to do?
    To avoid this typical, VERY frustrating, and game-breaking scenario, keep these in mind:
  • Do NOT calculate 1 variation 2 times: You may not be the BEST calculator around but when you sit at the board, you only have yourself to trust.
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you may like to read our article “10 ways to improve in chess”.
    This also brings us to the next advice:

    2) Use your intuition:intuition chess

    Look, even a computer – whether it’s Rybka, Fritz, or even that supercomputer Hydra, CANNOT calculate all of the lines until the end and come to a 100 percent correct conclusion. Having said that, we may conclude that trying to judge the outcome of the game for MANY moves ahead is a wasted effort.
    Oftentimes, you will find yourself in a situation where you have 2 or 3 logical moves and there’s no way you can calculate the lines until the end or come to a certain conclusion.
    What to do?
    Use your intuition! This means you should choose a move, which came to your mind FIRST (which seemed good for you at first sight on a position) and then do only the needed calculation to verify that the move is tactically good. This is a very powerful advice! Check it in your practice, and you’ll see that it works great!

    3) Make normal moves:

    simple chess
    Most often, a game is decided by a mistake of one player (NOT by a brilliant play of his opponent). Thus, it’s more important to avoid mistakes, than to find 100% perfect moves all the time.
    Don’t be too harsh on yourself. Don’t try to make 100% correct moves all the time. NORMAL move is good enough in most cases.
    Even the greatest players like Karpov follow this advice! The former World Champion, when faced with a branching point in one of his games, go for the sound, normal, and generally good move… the one that requires the least amount of calculation.
    He didn’t win ALL of his games, BUT he won MOST of them. Heck! He is a former World Champion. You’d do great by following his footsteps. ðŸ™‚dividerBefore getting into the fourth advise, let me tell you one little story.
    Recently I got a message from a chess player, a close follower of my blog to be precise. He explained his chess problems, and one of them was constant time trouble. I recommended one of my chess courses, which contains the answers to most of his questions.
    He answered: “Yes, I was thinking about your courses since the last month, but couldn’t decide which one to start with!”
    I could not hold the smile and laugh a bit. It’s not surprising that he has a time trouble in chess, isn’t it? He thought about one simple decision during more than a month!!!
    In an old manual for Samurais, I found the following quote (chess is a model of war by the way, so samurai’s wisdom is suitable for chess):
    “Man should make a decision during 7 breathing in. If thinking takes too long, the result will be lamentable.”
    So the fourth advice is….

    4) Decide and act quickly!

    If you have time troubles in chess, then you probably have problems when it comes to making decisions in life. Procrastination is a habit you want to get rid of.
     
    frank marshall chess quoteI know many people who spent tons of time to decide which of my courses to order. Meanwhile, they lost the most important thing – TIME. It was much better to make ANY decision, but to make it quickly and to start going forward.
    ANY decision moves you forward! If your decision was wrong, then you will know that this thing does not work. You learn something from it, and it’s going to be useful in the future. Then you will start finding another solution and you will always keep going forward!
    On the other hand, the one who doesn’t make a decision (or postpone it) will be stuck on his current place. He’ll have no progress whatsoever! That person who goes forward (who makes a decision and learns from it), will easily outrun him!
    Another example: some people wait several months to get my course with a discount. Again, they will save a few bucks, but lose TIME. I strongly advice that you make decisions, and make them quickly! ANY decision is better than nothing!
    For example, if you think that my lessons don’t help you – reject them completely. Unsubscribe from my mailing list and start searching for something else.
    If you think that my lessons are useful – then what are you waiting for?! Order the complete chess courses and start studying them NOW!
    If you only read these blog-posts, you still get something useful, BUT it’s very little compared to what my complete chess courses offer. Of course, I keep the better and BIGGER stuff in my complete courses. Make a decision! ðŸ™‚
    Our life consists of TIME: years, months, days, minutes…
    Thus, a loss of time shortens your life.
    A loss of time is a little suicide.
    So make decisions. And make them quickly!
  • In most cases you should NOT spend more than 3 minutes on 1 move. You may need to spend more time on crucial and highly tactical positions, but 3 minutes is the average for every move.








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