For players under 1000
Booster to 1000
Under 1000, games are decided by three things: getting your pieces out without hanging them, not falling for the same five traps, and knowing what to do after move 10. These courses give you one setup as White and one as Black, every move explained, and a drill that makes you play each line from memory. Learn them fully and you will out-play almost everyone in your bracket.
White: the Italian Game, complete
One setup against everything after 1.e4 e5. Learn it cold and you out-develop every 500–900 player alive.
4 chapters · learn + drill
Black vs 1.e4: the Italian mirror
Play the same setup with the colours reversed. One system, no surprises, and you already know the plan.
3 chapters · learn + drill
Black vs 1.d4: the solid Queen's Gambit setup
...d5, ...e6, ...Nf6, ...Be7, castle. Nothing hangs, nothing is weak, and the freeing plan is scripted.
2 chapters · learn + drill
The 10 checkmate patterns you must know
Back rank, smothered, Anastasia, Arabian, the ladder, the Greek gift, Boden, the opera mate — see each once, then spot them forever.
8 chapters · learn + drill
Endgames a 900 must win
K+Q, K+R, opposition, the square rule, and the race. Beginners throw away won games every single day — these five chapters end that.
5 chapters · learn + drill
Short lessons for your level
The Under-1000 lessons pair with these courses: the 10-second blunder check, checks-captures-threats, and the two mates you must know cold. All bands live in Lessons.
How to use this
- Start with the White course. Step through chapter 1 reading every note, then drill it from memory until you get zero mistakes.
- Play ten games with it. Just the setup — don't try to attack until you're castled and everything is out.
- Do the traps chapter. You will win material with Legal's mate within the week.
- Then the Black courses, same way — and the checkmate patterns and must-win endgames alongside them: beginners lose more won games than lost ones.
- Once all five are drilled clean, graduate to the plan cards and the weakness scan.