Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them The Middlegame

These Simple "This or That" Drills Sharpen Your Inner Detector For Beginner Mistakes In The Middlegame. Once your pieces are out, the middlegame begins. You need a plan, you need a strategy and you need to know how to neutralize your opponents' ideas. GM Josh Friedel is an experienced coach and knows exactly what kinds of mistakes beginners make - so he knows exactly what you need to improve.
Following up on his successful Beginner Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: The Opening, GM Friedel walks you through the most common middlegame errors and teaches you how to avoid them. And not only that - you'll be perfectly placed to exploit the mistakes that your opponents make.
This course covers five key topics that you need to bring your middlegame up to the next level
- Board Awareness - you'll learn to keep track of the pieces on a messy board and how they're working with each other
- Tactics - most games are decided by relatively simple tactics, and this plays an even bigger factor at the beginner level. You'll drill the most common tactics to boost your pattern recognition
- Attacking - hunting down the king is fun, but you can easily go astray - with this course you'll learn to ruthlessly conduct attacks on the king
- Consolidation - converting extra material into the win can be difficult but GM Friedel will show you how to avoid getting swindled
- Positional - GM Friedel focuses on the beginner mistakes that more advanced players may take for granted and gives you a solid foundation to build your chess knowledge on