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