The Secret Life of Rooks by NM Elijah Logozar

Add Hidden Power to Your Game with the Secret Life of Rooks

It may seem obvious, but it’s certainly true: you win games by playing moves your opponent never saw coming.

But spotting these “hidden moves” is easier said than done! To do that, you need to see the board and your pieces differently – and to see them differently, you need to practice patterns that drill these powerful ideas into your brain.

And that’s where National Master Elijah Logozar and FIDE Master Sean Vibbert come in. The dynamic duo is back with yet another Chessable course showing you how to activate your pieces in surprisingly powerful ways that will leave your opponent in disbelief.

As a perfect sequel to their 5-star course 300 Spartans: The Secret Life of Kings, The Secret Life of Rooks shows you how to find brilliant rook moves you might never consider with an effective combination of eye-opening puzzles, “geometry lessons”, and master games showing the plans in action.

In this course, you’ll learn:

♜ How to use your rooks to crack open a position for a winning attack. The rooks are not just stars of the endgame – learn how you can break a middlegame wide open for a cutthroat attack with surprising rook interferences and sacrifices

♜ The hidden power of bishops. The geometric relationships between the pieces is a thing of beauty! Learn to see your bishops in new ways by comparing them to rooks

♜ How to modify your newfound rook knowledge with a queen. Positional sacrifices aren’t limited to rooks of course – with queens moving the same way, sometimes they are a perfect substitute. And who doesn’t love a good queen sacrifice to win a game?

NM Logozar continues to show why he is one of the most popular authors on Chessable – not to mention 2021 Community Author of the Year. His interesting and in-depth explanations are sure to get you thinking differently. And combined with FM Vibbert’s rook endgame expertise, the only duo stronger than this one will be the pair of rooks in your games!