The Chess Coach Companion: Advanced Syllabus

Find Your Edge with 5 of the Best Chess Trainers from Europe. The Chess Coach Companion: Advanced Syllabus is a self-study course for the intermediate improver. It explores the key areas of strategy, tactics, and endgame play — where you can outsmart the increasingly tougher competition at the 1700 to 2200-level.

Originally designed as a teaching guide for trainers…
The Chess Coach Companion pinpoints the areas of chess which — when studied properly — can lead to huge rating dividends for the class A or B player.

The Chessable edition transforms the syllabus to a full-fledged improvement course. A selection of the material is presented in nearly 14 hours of video and 397 MoveTrainer® exercises, which you can study at your own pace.

Inside, you’ll learn from
- Ivan Sokolov — Peak 2706 FIDE and peak world #12… raised talented youngsters into top 50 grandmasters… and coached the gold-winning Uzbek team at the 44th Chess Olympiad.
- Antoaneta Stefanova — Women’s World Champion from 2004 to 2006… led the Bulgarian women’s team to the 2023 European Team Championship… and helped nurture the next generation of grandmasters through the Chessable x FIDE Academy.
- Efstratios Grivas — Silver medalist at the 33rd Chess Olympiad… coach of the victorious “team world” at the US vs. The World: Match of the Millenials… and a 6-time winner at the Annual FIDE Awards for trainers.
- Lasha Janjghava — 2-time Georgian champion… winner of the 1990 Hastings International Chess Congress… and a regular instructor at European Chess Union (ECU) youth camps sought for his strategic insights.
- Adrian Mikhalchishin — A GM-coach with almost 5 decades of excellence… trained the gold-winning USSR team at the 9th European Team Championship and 29th Chess Olympiad… coached Anatoly Karpov, Judit Polgar, and other legends of the game.

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