We’re thrilled to announce our 4th Annual Create Your Personal Course Contest, open now till October nineteenth.
This contest is turning into a prestigious occasion at Chessable. Many members gear up all yr to have the ability to launch their finest effort at a five-star course and take dwelling some money in addition to bragging rights with it. To not point out having a well-known writer current the course.
That is additionally the third version of the course for Spanish programs in addition to the 2nd for German.
We acquired so many good submissions final yr that we’re solely now getting round to publishing the successful programs. In actual fact, one of many winners, Superior Chess Patterns, nonetheless has but to be launched. You possibly can look out for it in July.
We put plenty of consideration into deciding on the winners, and the presenter (final yr was Grandmaster Maurice Ashley) of the successful course places in plenty of work which actually provides to the course.
So we encourage you to submit your finest and even craziest thought. No matter is off limits, in reality IceBreaker, one of many winners from final yr, made a course all about king play. The one requisite is that you simply be a Chessable PRO member.
The successful course will obtain a $5,000 advance on target gross sales (recoupable) whereas second place will obtain a $3,000 advance. The winner may have their course introduced in video by Worldwide Grasp Andras Toth.
The successful Spanish and German programs will take dwelling a $2,500 advance on money gross sales, with second locations receiving a €1,500 money advance.
The successful Spanish course will obtain video presentation by Grandmaster Alvar Rosell and the successful German course will obtain video presentation by Worldwide Grasp Jonas Hacker.
Final yr’s winner
Superior Chess Patterns by Benedictine and Killer Kings by Icebreaker
The submissions had been so sturdy final yr that we had two winners for the English version, Superior Chess Patterns by Benedictine and Killer Kings by Icebreaker.
Benedictine is an everyday Chessable contributor, and his successful Superior Chess Patterns builds upon his earlier programs, Frequent Chess Patterns.
Superior Chess Patterns isolates sure tactical subjects and drills you on them, specializing in the sample at hand with out another distractions, so as to later establish them in your video games.
The opposite first-place course, Killer Kings by Icebreaker, focuses on an usually uncared for matter in chess: the king. The concept of the course is to “improve our chess data by exploring how nearly all of ways and positional concepts are related to the kings.” It’s a novel course for certain, because it builds consciousness and appreciation of essentially the most missed piece on the board. This one is out now so make sure to choose it up.
Maurice went all out on the video for these two programs, so verify them out.
Final yr’s runner-up
Static Shock: A Full Benko Gambit Repertoire by Benkologist
Benkologist’s course is a full Benko Gambit repertoire, which they’ve developed after years of play and have discovered recent novelties not discovered wherever else.
The suggestions are engine-backed and 100% sound, with a give attention to enjoying not “on explosive dynamic play, however somewhat Karpovian maneuver warfare on the queenside.”
It doesn’t matter what your thought is, even when it’s nonetheless within the works, that is the right alternative to see it flourish.
Even when it doesn’t win, it may nonetheless go on to grow to be a profitable course. It occurred to Can Kabadayi, who first submitted his course to the competition, didn’t win, however later has gone on to grow to be certainly one of Chessable’s hottest authors.
Give it a shot and submit your course by October nineteenth. Winners shall be introduced in November/December this yr.
