Chess Advanced Course

1 Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca — the first fifty years
2 Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov — chess as a proxy war
3 Carlsen, Gukesh, and a title that’s split in two (current 2026 news)
4 Four famous games — Immortal Game, Opera Game, Fischer’s Game of the Century, Kasparov’s Immortal
5 The Italian Game and the Ruy Lopez
6 The Sicilian Defense
7 The Queen’s Gambit
8 The Caro-Kann, French, and hypermodern ideas
9 The Greek Gift sacrifice and attacking the castled king
10 Essential endgames — opposition, Lucena, Philidor
11 Calculation — candidate moves, thinking in trees
12 Building a repertoire and a practical study plan