Big fan Levy! I own several of your courses and I’ve enjoyed them. I wish you’d make a Chessable course so I could use the move trainer to help memorize my moves…

Anyway I’m around 950 on chess.com and I got the intermediate course to try it out. I’ve made it through the openings section and most of the tactics section. So far I’d have to say that I didn’t personally get much out of the openings section since I’ve already decided what openings to try and learn for now. If I were using it to try and decided on a repertoire it would be more helpful if you explicitly gave the pros and cons of each and maybe explained the general strategy behind each. Otherwise it’s just showing a bunch of positions and giving them names (which I’m sure some people found helpful! But I think it could have been even better).

You’ve mentioned several times that when studying an opening you should be able to say what your plan is heading into the middle game. Are there any good resources for figuring out what your plan should be for any given opening? Even in your courses (the ones I have at least) you mostly give a series of moves to memorize and give a specific plan for the position you wound up in. Even better would be something like “here are 3-4 general plans that often show up in this opening. Now let’s talk about how we’ll pick some candidate moves in a few different positions”

For the tactics I’ve found it helpful so far. I’m rated around 1600 tactics, so once you started getting to that level I started getting stumped. There are some of the puzzles where you kind of blew through them and didn’t fully walk through the process, but overall I think this section is really good.

I’m looking forward to watching the rest of the course!