In his second course for ChessBase, the International Master Kostya Kavutskiy turns to one of the most essential subjects in the game: positional play.
The course opens with strategic classics: some of the most instructive masterpieces that every chess player should know. From there, it moves into concrete positional operations, the short sequences of moves used to achieve strategic goals such as maneuvers, exchanges, and creating weaknesses in your opponent's position. It closes with a theme that defines modern chess: the merging of strategy and tactics. Purely positional play is a thing of the past, since there are always concrete details to calculate. You will learn to combine the two and never to play one without the other.
A range of exercises at the end puts your newly gained skills to the test. A course full of first-rate material. Best of luck, and enjoy working through it.