The Art of Exchanging Pieces - CM Can Kabadayi
Strategy course by CM Can Kabadayi
Includes video and PGN
Language: English
Lectures: 12
Total Running Time: 5 hours 51 minutes
From the course:
To Exchange, or Not to Exchange?
When confronted with the opportunity to exchange pieces, many players make disastrous mistakes with seemingly safe logic:
“Well, the knight is worth 3 and the bishop is worth 3, so let’s just trade them. It’s even.”
...or…
“My opponent wants to trade, so let’s not give them what they want. I’ll pull back the piece.”
A few moves later, they find themselves in a hopeless position that could have been prevented with the right decision at that crucial exchange moment!
If this problem plagues too many of your own games, a secret art will revolutionize your play...
The Art of Exchanging Pieces
In this course, not only will you learn what to do when faced with these trading decisions, but you’ll also learn how to proactively facilitate advantageous trades so that you can earn a winning position - sometimes out of ‘nowhere’!
Through 10 chapters, you’ll learn how to make appropriate trades in any situation based on chess principles - with a chapter dedicated to each one. You’ll master:
♞ Making exchanges to exploit long-term weaknesses in the opponent’s camp
♝ Exchanging pieces to exploit square color weaknesses
♞ Getting rid of your bad pieces for your opponent’s good ones
♝ Improving space advantages or disadvantages by making the right trade decisions
♞ Managing piece exchanges correctly when attacking
♝ and much more
Chessable community author CM Can Kabadayi - an experienced chess coach and near-2200 FIDE rated player - teaches you The Art of Exchanging Pieces through a brilliant collection of examples from master games and detailed explanations showing you the thought process in every one.
And while they may be from master games, you’ll find that each position is extremely practical - and probably similar to situations you’ve encountered in your own games.
You’ll also be able to apply the knowledge you learn in the theory section with a dedicated test chapter, making sure you’ve committed these principles to heart. After just over 100 exercises, you won’t just know The Art of Exchanging Pieces...you’ll be a full-fledged artist!