The 7-Skills Training Model!

Improve your chess by focusing on the skills that will have the biggest impact on your results.

The 7-Skills Chess Training Model introduces seven essential areas of chess development, helping you understand what each skill involves and how you can train it.

Discover the Seven Essential Chess Skills

The guide introduces seven key areas of chess:

1. Tactics – Recognising tactical opportunities, combinations and checkmate patterns.
2. Calculation – Analysing variations, calculating moves and finding hidden tactical possibilities.
3. Visualization – Imagining positions and following sequences of moves without moving the pieces.
4. Strategy – Understanding strategic principles, piece activity and positional plans.
5. Evaluation – Assessing positions by comparing material, piece activity, king safety and pawn structure.
6. Openings – Understanding opening principles, objectives and how to play from the first move.
7. Endgames – Learning fundamental endgame positions, essential principles and techniques for converting or defending positions.