Chess Bootcamp:

Beyond the Basics

Benjamin Katz

• Publisher: Popular Chess
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781781945957

Benjamin Katz is a renowned chess coach with over 20 years experience coaching students of all ability levels throughout the United States. He has helped numerous students improve and achieve chess success. This book details the training program he has developed based on this extensive experience. It cultivates the core skill set required to advance beyond the basics in chess. Included are key strategies, basic endgame positions and techniques, information on what to do when you're stuck, how to convert an advantage, and a high-level opening repertoire for both black and white. There are also numerous practical exercises that utilize a combination of recent examples from the games of Benjamin's students, as well as games played by the top players in the world, both contemporary and from the game's history. Benjamin Katz is a National Chess Master and the co-founder of Growing Minds Chess Academy, a progressive chess instruction company in New York City that incorporates the latest in modern educational theory with tried and trusted approaches to chess learning.

Table of contents

• About the Author
• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1 Four Fundamental Endgame Themes
• 2 Basic Tactics
• 3 Blunders
• 4 How to Win in the Endgame When You’re Up Material
• 5 Defense
• 6 Chess Strategy Fundamentals: Pawn Structures
• 7 Fun Chess
• 8 Middlegame Strategy
• 9 An Opening Repertoire for White
• 10 An Opening Repertoire for Black
• Solutions