Chessable Roundup: December 20, 2025

If your chess has just been like, “Me SOMEWHAT I know what I need to do, but I’m not sure how” …

Then this roundup is for you!

Each option below contains one item: a proven process that makes your efforts pay off.

From square-sniping to keeping your pieces in the best position…

Attack techniques for opening, middlegame, and endgame…

To a method of study that you prepare the first time to play a new opening…

You can see everything here.

And the bonus? All of them are offered up to 50% off along with the rest of our catalog at Chessable’s Holiday Sale.

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Micro-Plans III: Mastering Weak Squares by GM Swapnil Dhopade

When the obvious threats are off the board, do they take your ideas too? Follow this 5-step “Square-Sniping” guide. It teaches you how to find and control chargeable squares. So you know where to focus your pieces to get an edge.

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The Fundamentals 3: Chess Evolution by Quality Chess & GM Artur Yusupov

Fix the holes in your chess fundamentals, then watch your chess evolve! Here is step 3 of Yusupov’s award-winning 9-part guide to achieving master level. The focus? Attack! Come out with a sharper eye for weak spots and attack mating through 16.5 hours of video.

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French Revolution: A Fighting Repertoire for Black by GM Luka Budisavljević

Don’t be defensive, rise up with this new French! It waged mental warfare against 1.e4 by focusing on positions contrary to White’s preferences. They played the calm Tarrasch? Now you attack their king with pawns! They play sharp with the theory-heavy 2.Nc3? Then you take them “out of the book” in a mirror-motion.

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Hakobyan’s Complete 1.d4 by GM Aram Hakobyan

They will laugh at your “mouse slip” until your attack comes together! This modern repertoire opens with the classic d4-c4. Then it spins into a strange Ra2, “hanging” a piece without even getting a check, or cosplaying a knight with the queen … acting sure of Black chuckle, until suddenly their king runs!

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Smash the Englund Gambit with 4.Qd5 by NM Ruben Mashal

Make the main idea of ​​the Englund Gambit the seed of their own destruction! You accept the pledge and cement this with 4.Qd5. Then you ask Black: “What now?” In just 4 chapters and 50 lines, you have a decisive side against one of the most annoying gambling under 2000 level.

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On the blog, we sat down with WGM Adriana Nikolova at Coach’s Corner.

With nearly 10 years of teaching and over 300 students worldwide, he has developed simple, proven study methods… both during instruction and in self-study.

Coach’s Corner: Adriana Nikolova

Check out his 4 part training breakdown, so you can get enough reps in tactics and real games. And if you’re playing an opening for the first time on the board, use his 100×100 method to make sure you’re game day ready.

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That concludes this week’s roundup. See you next time!