The Art of Chess: A Practical Workbook - CM Can Kabadayi

Strategy course by CM Can Kabadayi
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 10
Total Running Time: 11 hours 29 minutes

From the course:

The Positional Puzzle Book
That Helps You Find Strong Moves Faster

Strategy is something many players neglect in their training, even though it can dramatically improve your overall strength. Positional understanding often leads to faster, more reliable decisions than brute calculation or even memorization.

While there are plenty of ways to learn about positional decision-making, there aren’t many ways to practice it through puzzles like you can with tactics.

CM Can Kabadayi is here to change that with a positional puzzle workbook that doesn’t just explain principles, but trains you to apply them under real-game conditions.

The workbook is centered around four positional themes that appear in virtually every game:

➡️ Exchanging Pieces
➡️ Awakening Pieces
➡️ Burying Pieces
➡️ Multi-Purpose Moves

With nearly 200 mixed-theme puzzles from real games, you’ll sharpen your intuition to find strong moves faster.

How This Workbook Will Help You:

This workbook aims to refine your understanding until choices like the ones above feel natural. CM Can Kabadayi helps you get there with a structured, psychologically grounded method.

The workbook is organized into three clear parts:

1️⃣ Introduction: concise explanations with model positions for each theme
2️⃣ Multiple choice chapter: select between two plans
3️⃣ Three test chapters: mixed puzzles with increasing difficulty

With these three stages, you’ll build your intuition progressively. First you’ll grasp the core concepts, then practice them with a limited set of options, and finally apply them in mixed exercises where the only cues are the pieces on the board — perfect preparation for real games.

Plus, you’ll learn from memorable examples: many of the exercises are taken from the games of great players like Karpov, Kasparov, and Tal!