DiscoverDojo Talks: A Chess PodcastEP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard
EP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard

EP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard

Update: 2025-05-271
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0:00 Intro

1:51 How to improve your positional play

6:05 Book recommendations 

8:18 Recognizing weaknesses in positional play

12:22 How to work with a coach

15:48 Killer Chess Training Camp

20:15 How Aagaard learned positional play

24:12 Certainty of action vs. certainty of outcome

26:06 Working with Sam -Shankland

29:58 Improving specific aspects of positional play

31:52 Certainty of action vs. certainty of outcome 

35:16 How much should adult improvers play classical?

39:35 Micro-pains

45:46 How Renier Castellanos made GM

50:11 What's the best process for reviewing your games?

56:10 Solving simple tactics vs. difficult problems

57:28 What is calculation

1:05:17 Simple tactics vs. difficult problems

1:11:56 The #1 rule of training

1:14:00 The cycle of improvement

1:19:08 Whats next for Killer Chess Training


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EP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard

EP 153 | How To Improve Your Positional Play w/ GM Aagaard

IM Kostya Kavutskiy, IM David Pruess, GM Jesse Kraai