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Chess training from World class trainers

About Killer Chess Training, the rebranded 365 Academy

Killer chess Training provides chess players from all over the World the chance to be trained by some of the most experienced and respected chess trainers in the World. Our trainers are all very strong players with successes as players, but have been hired for their skills in decoding the game and explaining it to others.
Classes are provided through the ZOOM platform at different times, giving all students a chance to experience some live classes, while other classes can be streamed at your convenience for a limited time afterwards.
Our classes are focused on the needs of the members; feedback and surveys are used to constantly improve the service we provide to you.
The financial cost of joining is highly competitive (although it will soon increase).
Our classes are based on a few different templates:
We have the Courses, where a trainer will go deep into a topic over a period of time. As long as the Course has not been concluded, it will be possible to review the previous lessons. Such ongoing courses are Technical Rook Endgame and Mastering Postional Concepts, for example. Later it will be possible to buy the course for streaming. Members will get a considerable discount.
We have Recurring one-off classes with varying themes, such as New Ideas in the Opening, Game of the Week, Thinking Aloud and others.
We have Homework Club where it is possible to submit weekly homework and get personalised feedback.
Finally, as a new thing, we are building a Fundamentals series making it possible for students to review the basics of chess. This will be supported by classes called Fundamentals in Action, building or adding to this knowledge. For yearly members, the Fundamentals series will be available at all times.
If you are interested in learning more about our training platform, please send us an email or a message on Facebook and we will be happy to answer any questions you may have. We can also provide with a free pass for a class of your choice, so that you can attend live. For recording sessions, please scroll down and on the Courses section, you can find a lot of free classes for you to attend.

Prices

1 Month Subscription

149
  • Acces to all Webinars for one month
  • Access to the forum for one month

1 Year Subscription

430
  • Acces to all Webinars for one Year
  • Access to the forum for one Year

Lesson Schedule

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Frequently Asked Questions

You choose the subscription you like, you go to the basket, you fill in your personal information and after you’ve read terms and contitions, press “Place order”. Fill in your details, check out and pay. If you choose to pay with a bank transfer, please send us a proof of payment, so that we will process your payment fast and you will get access to the content.

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Because you are passionate about chess and want to understand it better and improve your results

There is a common misconception that the higher the rating, the stronger the trainer. This is not so. Our trainers are experienced in training with decades of experience and many successes. They have assisted with many World Championship matches, been captains for Olympiad teams, produced titled players, written award winning books and accrued lots of experience working with improving players of all levels.

 

Yes, they have also reached great results in their own right, championships and Olympiad medals. Had high ratings and defeated famous opponents. But the main reason why we feel certain 365 Chess Academy will be the right choice for you, is our trainers’ long and solid experience and the academy’s commitment to constantly improve and provide you with the best learning experience we can create.

We have happy members from 1200 to 2500+. From young players with a little tournament experience to seasoned grandmasters. Obviously, some classes will be challenging for the less experienced members, while others will be progressing a bit slowly seen from the perspective of professionals. But chess is magical in the way that even if you cannot find the best move in a position, it is not difficult to understand why it is the best move, when explained well.

We have a number of IMs and GMs signed up who are very happy with the lessons. We are always happy to answer questions about what we can do for you.

The number one is cost. The second is convenience. Because of technology we are able to have lessons in our home without the need for travel and accommodation. Also, we record the lessons and you can access them later.

 

While face to face training has a number of advantages and should be preferred if available, most often it is not. Online is not significantly inferior.

Our classes are live and based on interaction between the members and the trainers. While being the sole focus of the trainer’s attention can improve your confidence and sometimes be a shortcut to improvement through special insights, the experience of classroom learning is not significantly inferior. The knowledge conveyed will be the same and the encouragement to learn from the trainers will be the same. In place of the singular attention from the trainer comes the possibility of learning from your fellow student’s questions and experience and the natural camaraderie that arises.

Our classes are scheduled over three time zones. We try to provide everyone with a reasonable amount of live classes, but no one will be able to attend all the classes live. However, the recordings are available for 14 days after they have been aired and longer when it comes to the longer courses with narrow topics.

 

Hardly anyone is able to watch all of the lessons. Pick what is most appealing to you and enjoy it. The overload of classes should not get in the way of your learning experience!

We are too! In order to learn you have to be involved.

 

Therefore, our teachers are not just conveying information, but asking a lot of questions from the students. We also have a weekly homework club, where you can submit your answers and get feedback in good time before the class and try again.

Our classes are varied and even if only one lesson per week is to your liking, you would find full value for your membership.

 

In principle, our fees are non-refundable, but if you find out after 2-3 days that signing up to 365 Chess Academy has been a horrible mistake, please get in touch with our admin team and we will be happy to have a conversation with you.

 

Also, you can contact us and request to join a class for free and/or some links or recorded classes, so that you can get an idea of how things work in our on-line chess Academy.

 

We also have monthly and quarterly memberships available.

We are in the process of  partnering with Klarna, which is a way to have monthly instalments. What is important to understand is that this is similar to taking out a loan. We receive the full payment when you sign up and you will have to pay the credit company the money back in instalments. Your obligation will be to the credit company, not 365 Chess Academy! If you fail to meet your repayments, it does not terminate your membership, but is the same as defaulting on a personal loan.

 

We do not recommend accepting the instalment plan if there is any doubt in your mind that you can pay all the instalments in time.

Yes, it’s our monthly membership and it is non-refundable. If you buy the monthly membership and within 7 days you want to upgrade to a full yearly membership, you will pay $400.

After your order is placed, out team will go and check that the money is in our account. After confirmation of payment, they change the status of your order and then you should automatically receive an email with a temporary password, which you use to log in. Please check your spam folder. If the password is not there, send us a message using the form on the bottom of the page, or send a message to our Facebook page and we will send you a password.

Simple! You go to the Forum and find the relevant course and you ask your question. The trainer, or another member, will get back to you. The idea is that we build a community around the academy, where people are helping each other.

You have to have a memership on Lichess.com, which is free. Once you are there, search for the 365 Chess Academy and become a member.

Also, members of the academy are organising games and tournaments for which you can get more details on the Forum.

GM Jacob Aagaard

British Champion 2007. Has represented both Scotland and Denmark in the past and will certainly play for Scotland sometime in the future. Founder of Quality Chess and the author of many award winning books, most notably the Grandmaster Preparation series, the Decision Making in Chess series with Boris Gelfand, the Attacking Manuals, the Excelling in chess and Practical Chess Defence. More books are on the way. As a trainer he was one of those helping Boris Gelfand from 2009, when he won the World Cup and Candidates, only to lose the World Championship on tie- break in 2012.

He helped Sabino Brunello from FM to a 2630 GM and Sam Shankland from 2590 to 2730. Over the last few years he has worked with many talented players.

In 2018 he was appointed as chairman of FIDE's trainers Commission.

Courses

Thinking
Aloud
Homework
Club
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GM Sam Shankland

US Champion 2018 and the most successful member of the US national team in modern times.

Sam is the author of the bestsellers Small Steps to Giant Improvement and Small Steps 2 Success. His peak rating is 2731 and after a year from hell in 2019, he is still in the top 50.

Courses

Navigating
Inferior Positions
How to exploit a Space Advantage
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GM Alexander Motylev

Courses

Mastering Positional Concepts
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GM Julen Arizmendi

Julen Arizmendi is a Spanish/American Grandmaster with many years of teaching experience. As a player he has been quite successful, winning the Spanish Championship and a number of big opens. He played for Spain in both the Olympiad and the European Team Championship. As most of our trainers he is still an active player and still working on his own game, giving his teaching an obvious practical angle.

Courses

Thoughts
on Strategy

GM Sabino Brunello

Italian International since his teenage years. cabin has won the C- group in Wijk aan Zee with 11/13 and finished top 10 at the European Championship in 2013.

He now combines playing with training and studying at university. His peak rating was 2617.

Courses

New ideas in
the Opening
u1800
Workgroup
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GM Ivan Salgado Lopez

Iván has played for the Spanish national team since his junior days and had an early peak rating of 2651. Now living in Berlin, he is working hard towards a second breakthrough after completing a degree in Sports. Recently he ended shared first in the Spanish Championship and returned to 2600+ territory.

Iván is the author of a few great opening books for Thinker's Publications.

Courses

Kasparov's
Chess Evolution

GM Renier Castellanos Rodriguez

Born in Cuba, now a Spanish national living in Bucharest. Renier has 2 norms and have had GM strength for a while, with a peak rating of 2529, but too many draws have kept him from achieving the final GM-norm. He has for years worked as a trainer in Romania and for young players from all over the World seeking to improve.

Renier will be very active on the blog and the moderator for a lot of the lessons.

Courses

New ideas in
the Opening
u1800
Workgroup
Game of
the Week

Technical Rook Endgames

GM Sam Shankland

The 2018 US Champion takes you on a journey through Technical Rook Endgames.

Course Overview

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Foundation of Positional Play

IM Renier Castellanos

In this course we are going to learn to recognize the main elements of Positional Play in the middlegame and play in accordance to the demands of the position. The goal of this course is to provide the students with the necessary knowledge to make good positional decisions in a short amount of time.
Don't get fooled by the title. Just because you are over 2000, does't mean you aren't going to benefit from this class!

Course Overview

Lesson 1: Introduction to the 3 Questions System and main positional factors to consider.

Where are the weaknesses?

What is my opponent’s idea?

Which is the worst placed piece?

Lesson 2: Weaknesses – Identifying the weaknesses and how to exploit them

Lesson 3: Pieces – How to improve the pieces to the best possible squares

Lesson 4: Prophylaxis – Seeing the opponent’s ideas and restricting the opponent’s pieces

Lesson 5: Exchanges – Which pieces to trade, which pieces to keep

Lesson 6: Creating weaknesses – Provocation!

Lesson 7: The exchange of queens – In which situations is it advantageous to exchange the queens and when should we keep them on the board?

Lesson 8: Pawn play.  How to use pawn breaks, how to control weak squares and how to create squares for the pieces

Lesson 9: Positional Masterpieces I – In this lesson we will go over some great positional games and analyse and predict the decisions using the three questions.

Lesson 10: Positional Masterpieces II

Lesson 11: Positional Masterpieces III

Lesson 12: Some thoughts on Positional sacrifices

Lesson 13: Recap – Interactive lesson

As all Courses, this Course will be available on our website for two weeks for free viewing from our subscribers, after the last lesson airs.

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Homework Club

GM Jacob Aagaard

Chess is a game of understanding, knowledge and skill. In the Homework Club we turn our understanding and knowledge into skill by practice and repetition. Fresh PDFs are available each Monday, giving the students a week to complete the homework. The homework will be escalating in difficulty, and thus suitable for all levels. Simply solve the exercises until it feels impossible. You will get personal feedback in a weekly class, if you send high resolution photos to our email.

In order for you to get an idea of how the homework is, please click here to download a homework sheet.
Print it, work on it and when you think you are done, plick on play to the video below.

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Thinking Aloud

GM Jacob Aagaard

Course Overview

Join the host and a guest for Thinking Aloud, where the trainers will give each other exercises with pre-agreed themes.
Try to solve the positions yourself and join conversation, while the trainers will explain what they see in the positions and how they approach them – and where you will have the chance to see what they don’t.

If you are wondering how to approach calculation, positional play, endgames and more,
this is the perfect place for you to think along with the grandmasters.

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Fundumentals in Action

GM Jacob Aagaard or any of our trainers

Any of the 365 Chess Academy trainers can take this class. At the moment, GM Jacob Aagaard is mostly doing it.
Your hosts will take a look at submitted games and explain ideas, themes and approaches that will come up in the class.
Games can be submitted at in PGN format only. After you become a member we will give you instructions.
The coaches will choose games they find useful for the class.
A list of the games included will be given on the Forum.
Please only send one game at a time and clearly explain what you wish feedback on. No individual feedback outside the class will be provided.

Episodes of this course will be available on our website for two weeks and the oldest recording will be replaced by the most recent recording shortly after it airs.

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Understanding Static Elements in Chess

GM Iván Salgado López

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Attacking the Opponent Effectivelly

GM Sabino Brunello

Attacking the opponent effectively investigates the struggle between attacking and defensive resources.
Critical factors covered are king safety, piece activity, dynamics and more.
The material presented is original as mainly drawn from our lecturer GM Sabino Brunello’s own lesser known games.
An important focus is on how the attacking position was built and on the reasons why an attack is stronger in some circumstances and weaker in others.

Course outline:
Session 1: Tragedy and glory
Session 2: King safety
Session 3: Two disasters and a half
Session 4: Attacks with a positional foundation
Session 5: Mating attacks
Session 6: Not quite mate! The power of defence
Session 7: Building up the attack
Session 8: mating attacks 2
Session 9: mating attacks 3
Session 10: positional attack
Session 11: sacrifice!
Session 12: mating attacks 4
Session 13: mating attacks 5

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Game of the Week

Open Class

In this class we look at a game played in the last week (or two) and see what we can learn from it. Every week will have a different host.
The lessons will be recordered and will be accessible for a week after the class airs. Then the recording will be replaced by the most recent class.

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Mastering Positional Concepts

GM Alexander Motylev

Lesson 1 & 2: Positional exchange sacrifice. The concept of outpost.
Lesson 3: Bishop versus knight. Bishop's advantage. ◆ Lesson 4: Bishop versus knight. Knight's advantage.
Lesson 5: The power of two bishops.◆ Lesson 6 & 7: Rooks in the middlegame.
Lesson 8 & 9: Rook versus two light pieces. ◆ Lesson 10 & 11: The concept of prophylaxis.
Lesson 12 & 13: The principle of two weaknesses.

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