Description

Chess is a game of ideas, where players have to carefully build their position and find weaknesses in the other player’s camp that will allow them to break through. But success comes from more than just having good ideas of your own—it requires understanding how both sides’ plans interact. A fundamental habit in chess is to constantly consider the opponent’s intentions after every move. At an early stage, this might mean spotting simple, direct threats, but as positions become richer and more complex, it involves recognizing deeper plans and long-term goals rather than just individual moves.

In this comprehensive video course, GM Swayams, an experienced coach with 11 years of training expertise, will help you understand better how prophylaxis works and can be applied in practice.

The course contains 18 hours of classes that cover the following themes:

1. Introduction & Realizing Real&False threats

2. Stopping the Opponent’s ideas

3. Reducing the value of the Opponent’s ideas

4. Prophylaxis in Attack

5. Prophylaxis in Defence

6. Prophylaxis in Endgame

7. Exploiting Weaknesses

8. Preparing own plans

9. Hidden Rook moves

10. Problems of not doing prophylaxis

11. Unnecessary prophylaxis going wrong – examples

12. Games & Examples of Players having Prophylaxis as Strength – Carlsen, Karpov, Capablanca & Nimzowitch

13. Prophylaxis in my games

14. Recent instructive examples of prophylaxis

15. Solving exercises/tests

16. More prophylaxis!

This 18-lesson video series is designed to be engaging, practical, and directly applicable to tournament play. Each lesson will provide expert insights, interactive positions, and model games to reinforce key ideas. Each video lesson is at least 1 hour long.

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