Beyond the Basics 2 Boost Your Chess + PGN Jun 08, 2026

You Can Break The Intermediate Plateau And
Close In On The Expert Level — These
24 Hands-on Lessons Can Prove It

Inspired by the Dvoretsky-Yusupov Soviet school, they train the 6 skills that make up your chess strength. Each lesson ends with a test to flag the fixes that can move your rating soonest. It’s the kind of real-time diagnosis that can only come from a world-class coach.

Which it does.

Every lesson was designed by Grandmaster Artur Yusupov — one of the greatest minds to teach the game and winner of FIDE’s Boleslavsky Medal for best chess instruction.

By the time you finish, you’ll be able to:

1. Calculate 3 to 4 moves accurately. So you blunder far less and catch more of those small tactics hiding in the position.

2. See the lines of attack you should open and the escape routes to seal off. From here, brilliant tactics almost reveal themselves.

When you can clearly see the board’s
geometry, brilliant decoys and line-
clearing combinations like this
become second nature

3. Take control of key diagonals, files, and squares. So your pieces outclass their counterparts.

You will assert your dominance
piece by piece

4. Outsmart opponents in the pawn structures and minor piece match-ups you run into all the time.

5. Turn your rook into the MVP of the endgame, without slogging through pages and pages of dry, technical side variations.

6. And use the opening to reach a solid middlegame that’s rich in winning chances.

You get a mini-repertoire for both colors.

With White, you keep pieces on the board and avoid crazy forcing lines.

Your double-fianchetto creates angles
of attack on both flanks, while your
center keeps Black’s pieces at bay

With Black, you blunt White’s activity, so your superior pawn structure tips the scales.

Your typical game with Black:
you ruin White’s pawns, trade
3 pairs of minor pieces, and
leave one that favors you

Maybe you already know Yusupov.

3-time World Championship candidate. 5-time Olympiad gold medalist. Peaked at world #3 — behind only World Champions Garry Kasparov and Anatoly Karpov.

But what matters most to you is:

How Yusupov turned his hard-won experience into a study plan that reliably makes other players stronger.