Converting an Extra Pawn in Chess

From Winning Pawns to Winning Games: How to Turn Your Extra Pawns into Victories We’ve all been there: you win a pawn at some point in the game, get your hopes up, try your best to play correctly to convert it into a win — yet somehow, things don’t go as planned. It happens to the best, even to 2700+ grandmasters!

The Three Elements of Success
There are three key elements for a successful conversion, each explored in its own dedicated chapter

– Stabilize: Once you’ve managed to win a pawn, you should consolidate your position and prevent counterplay before thinking about conversion.
– Make the Right Changes: Understand which trades and structural changes improve your winning chances and which ones help your opponent.
– Find a Plan for the Pawn: Develop a clear understanding of what your extra pawn is achieving and a reliable plan for how to make use of it.

In this course, you will learn how to correctly assess which element you need to apply to the position in front of you. In most situations, all three elements will be needed consecutively to drive the point home.

Learn from the Best
All the examples in the course stem from top grandmasters like Carlsen, Giri, Anand and also Shankland himself.

Not only does some of the material come from Shankland’s own games, all of it is material he’s pored over first with students in training sessions and then double-checked with engines. Giving us the best of both: practical insights and analytical rigor.

A former U.S. Champion and Olympiad gold medalist with a peak rating of 2731, Shankland has studied pawn conversion in depth. He even wrote a full book on the topic. A book that is now at your fingertips in the form of this Chessable course.

In summary, you will get structured training in the three phases of pawn conversion as you
– Study 156 trainable lines
– Learn from GMs’ mistakes
– Get the full picture with detailed analyses of 29 top-level games
– Watch >11 hours of video instruction by the author

Converting an extra pawn is a difficult, but extremely important skill in chess. This course provides you with everything you need to learn and practice how to take advantage of your extra pawn with confidence and precision.

More Info

https://www.chessable.com/converting-an-extra-pawn-in-chess/course/346903/