The path to 1400 Using the ChessDojo Training Program 

According to me the most essential part of chess training should be the endgames. Many people think endgames just help you win the endgame for some reason which is absolutely not true. Endgame helped me improve all aspects of my game including the opening. It's only endgames which helped me stop making aimless moves as a beginner and it's endgames which helped me win games against some 1600s who never made a tactical mistake. The most important skils in chess are analysis and calculation and studying endgames is the most important method to do it. Also openings are totally useless upto a certain level. Even if you emerge with a slight disadvantage it doesn't matter upto a certain rating level. I used to be that guy that used to memorise lines in the Sicilian thinking I'll be able to play like a GM in few years and did many tactics. It never worked. Yes I got same rating points because of the tactics but that doesn't mean my play became better. Whenever they was no tactic I used to be just as awful as I was before. It was only after taking endgames seriously that I understood what exactly one should do in chess to not be awful. After 6 months into exclusive endgame study I wasn't the same player anymore. I was noticing difference in me playing. Chess is an extremely complex game. I think I know just like 1% of chess and I've been playing and studying for years.

I'm around 1800 FIDE, but I find a lot of good advice on each of these videos. Looking forward to seeing more and more. If I take up chess improvement seriously, I'll join Dojo plan for sure!

Absolutely loving what you guys have done in developing this curriculum. Could go on and on about each aspect and how great it is (I'm actually in education). Anyway though, when is the How to Make 1500 video coming?! Dying to watch this! Thank you all!

Those Polgars Mate in two are literally the Most annoying and yet helpful thing, i've ever done for my chess. Started in december and now i am Just about 100 mates away from finally finishing them 🤣

Now that I'm over 1300 I watched this. Time, time, time!! :) Thank you Kraai!

Great stuff! I love this series! So helpful!

Another very instructive video.Thanks Master Kraai.

OMG, 3 tempi is worth a pawn. I don’t know how to take advantage of that knowledge, but I’ve never heard it before, so I love it.

After seeing this video I became 1400 in 3 hours. I was 1800 before.

Anxiously awaiting more installments in this series...

Great analysis, my favorite so far, wow ! I’d pay for a course by GM Kraai named Time and Space in chess or something like that.

Thanks for this

Do we have to buy the recommended books, or all the study material and the exercises are provided by chessdojo?

Then what about Sicilian? Isn't that opening losing a lot of time?

3:35 Watching youtube videos about weird opening systems (GothamChess and Remote Chess Academy) has made me worse.