Positional Power
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Name
Number of tasks
Completion rate
Level 1 (Strategy 1200—1400 ELO)
Chess Strategy for Beginners
91
0%
1. Utilizing a material or positional advantage
2. Methods of utilizing an advantage
3. Advantage in space
4. Advantage in time. About king's safety
5. Powerless extra pieces
6. Queen against pawns
7. Utilizing an extra pawn
8. A remote passed pawn
9. A protected passed pawn
Level 2 (Strategy 1400—1600 ELO)
Learn Chess: From Beginner to Club Player
36
0%
1. Elements of positional play
2. Pressure along a semi-opened file
3. Pawn structure
4. Weak square
5. "Good" and "bad" bishops
6. How to exploit the material advantage
Level 3 (Strategy 1600—2000 ELO)
Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol. 1 (1600-2000 ELO)
44
0%
1. The "good" and the "bad" bishops
2. The bishop is stronger than the knight
3. The knight is stronger than the bishop
4. The bishops of opposite color in the middlegame
5. Bringing a piece out of play
6. Exploiting the open and semi-open files
7. Open and semi-open files and attacking the king
8. An outpost on an open or semi-open file
9. Fighting for an open file
10. Strong pawn center
11. Undermining the pawn center
12. Pieces against the pawn center
13. Pieces and pawns in the center
14. The center's role in flank operations
15. Two bishops in the middlegame
16. Two bishops in the endgame
17. Successful struggle against a bishop pair
18. The weak points in opponent's camp
19. The weakness of a complex of squares
20. About some strong points
21. The pawn weaknesses
22. The doubled pawns
23. A backward pawn on a semi-open file
24. A passed pawn
Level 4 (Strategy 1800—2000 ELO)
Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
196
0%
1. Advantage in development
2. Attack on the king
3. Attack on the queenside
4. Defense and counterattack
5. Weak square
6. Open files and diagonals
7. Pawn structure
8. Central squares
9. Disposition of pieces
10. Exchange
11. Positional sacrifice
12. Isolated queen's pawn
13. A pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files
14. Hanging pawns
15. Prevention
Level 5 (Strategy 1800—2200 ELO)
Chess Strategy & Tactics Vol. 2 (1800-2200 ELO)
78
0%
1. Pawn majority on one of the flanks
2. Pawn chain
3. A qualitative pawn majority
4. Restriction of the mobility and blockade
5. A pawn pair "c3+d4" on the semi-opened files
6. An isolated pawn in the center of the board
7. Hanging pawns
8. Carlsbad structure
9. Closed center
10. A dynamical pawn sacrifice
11. Positional pawn sacrifice
Level 6 (Strategy 2000—2200 ELO)
Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
319
0%
1. Advantage in development
2. Advantage in space
3. Attack on the king
4. Attack on the queenside
5. Defense and counterattack
6. Weak square
7. Open files and diagonals
8. Pawn structure
9. Central squares
10. Disposition of pieces
11. Exchange
12. Positional sacrifice
13. Isolated queen's pawn
14. A pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files
15. Hanging pawns
16. Prevention
Level 7 (Strategy 2200—2300 ELO)
Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
238
0%
1. Advantage in development
2. Advantage in space
3. Attack on the king
4. Defense and counterattack
5. Weak square
6. Open files and diagonals
7. Pawn structure
8. Central squares
9. Disposition of pieces
10. Exchange
11. Positional sacrifice
12. Isolated queen's pawn
13. A pawn pair c3+d4 on the semi-open files
14. Hanging pawns
Level 8 (Strategy 2300—2350 ELO)
Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
70
0%
1. Attack on the king
2. Weak square
3. Open files and diagonals
4. Pawn structure
5. Central squares
6. Disposition of pieces
7. Exchange
8. Positional sacrifice
9. Isolated queen's pawn
10. Hanging pawns
11. Plan
Level 9 (Strategy 2350—2400 ELO)
Chess Strategy (1800-2400)
41
0%
1. Attack on the king
2. Open files and diagonals
3. Pawn structure
4. Central squares
5. Disposition of pieces
6. Exchange
7. Positional sacrifice
8. Isolated queen's pawn
9. Prevention
10. Plan
