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08/03-08/07 Cracking the Code + Bonus Lesson with Grandmaster Felgaer!10: 30am 1: 00pm ET, 1: 30pm 4: 00pm ET 7 27 2026 7 31 2026 All Skill levels, from brand new beginners to strong tournament players are welcome! Cracking the Code Decode Pawn Structures Into a Winning Plan As the French chess master once said, Pawns are the soul of the game. The pawn structure determines piece activity, king safety, space advantage, and ultimately the entire direction of a chess battle. In this camp, students will learn how to use
10:30am-1:00pm ET, 1:30pm - 4:00pm ET
7/27/2026 - 7/31/2026
All Skill levels, from brand new beginners to strong tournament players are welcome!
Cracking the Code – Decode Pawn Structures Into a Winning Plan
As the French chess master once said, “Pawns are the soul of the game.” The pawn structure determines piece activity, king safety, space advantage, and ultimately the entire direction of a chess battle. In this camp, students will learn how to use pawns with purpose.
We will guide campers through how pawn formations influence attacking chances, defensive ideas, and endgame outcomes. Students will practice using pawn breaks when needed, using a space advantage, and exposing/creating weaknesses. With the right plan – based on the pawn structure – their pieces will come to life.
For Beginners: A solid introduction to essential pawn structures—isolated, doubled, backward, hanging, passed pawns, and pawn chains. Students will learn to recognize, evaluate, and play with purpose.
For Advanced Students: A deeper dive into strategic mastery, covering when to transform structures in their favor, how to exploit weaknesses, thematic tactical ideas, sharper planning based on statics vs. dynamics, when to trade pieces, and how pawn play connects the opening to the middlegame and endgame as well as different evaluations of the same structures in these phases.
By the end, students will understand how the smallest piece secretly runs the show!
We'll also have a free bonus lesson for campers on Thursday, August 6th at 4:30pm ET with Grandmaster Ruben Felgaer!
Typical schedule for a day:
- 10:30-10:40 Introductions, chat, get to know each other
- 10:40-11:10 Lesson
- 11:10-11:45 Practice games and possibly student game analysis
- 11:45-12:00 Break
- 12:00-12:25 Lesson
- 12:25-1:00 Practice games
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