The Intermediate Guide to Chess Mastery - Chess Series

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The intermediate guide to chess mastery is quite a catchy intro when you think about it. It has this flammery sound, making it seem like you are about to gain some high-paying lecture from a super grandmaster that will transform your chess into the elite standard you might be looking for. Nah, that's too bad and sorry to burst your bubbles, but the intro is an encompassing series of simple chess knowledge I have gathered over my 15 years of playing and studying chess.

Crazy, Right? 15 years!

If, for some reason, you have ever had the chance to pick up a chess book in the past, probably in an attempt to improve your chess, you wouldn't be new to the fact that chess authors love the idea of using catchy titles to attract readers. When you begin to read, you see that these are simple things that have been mastered. So that is what I aim to do with this series. I want you, my reader who happens to have an interest in chess, to be able to understand these simple things, then master them over and over by playing several games online or over the chessboard. If you followed the beginner's series, there should be a background knowledge of the game established in your brain, thereby laying the foundation for the knowledge from this intermediate series to be stored in your memory.

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The Teaching Pattern

The teaching pattern is going to be the same as the previous series, making it simple to understand while giving logical examples to illustrate the point, but since it is an intermediate step up, there will also be a step up in our lessons, whereby practical examples from games played mostly from my archive of games on lichess or other players will be used to buttress the lesson for the day. As usual, here is an outline for the series filled with the lessons we are going to be looking at one day at a time.

Lesson Outline

Lesson 1
Introduction to the Lichess platform and how to use it.

Lesson 2
Rules that defile the Opening Principles.

Lesson 3
Knowing what to play in the middlegame

Lesson 4
Combination in Chess.

Lesson 5
Calculation in Chess.

Lesson 6
When Tactics prevail.

Lesson 7
Know when to pull simple tricks.

Lesson 8.
How to prevent simple tricks.

Lesson 9.
Simple Chess Endings to Know.

Lesson 10
Your strategy can be your plan.

Lesson 11
Knowing when to sac.

Lesson 12
Know your opening

Lesson 13
The Art of Defense

There you have it, the outline for the classes that will spring over the next 13 days. Let us bear in mind that learning never stops until one is six feet underneath the ground, and the same thing applies to chess; you can never get enough of it once you start.

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Final words

I like to look at it as an endorsing relationship between a master and their student, one is consumed with the desire to show the other what they can learn, and the other is obsessed with the zeal to become the best student the master ever had. Well, that is the dynamics of how the game goes. You will enjoy the series if you remain true to the pact of playing at least 5 games a day, either online or over the chessboard. Practice makes perfect, as it is well known, and chess is no different.

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