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Month 04 · Strategy
Pawn Structures & Positional Planning
Structure → plans → pieces → breaks → model games.
- Weeks
- 4
- Days on the syllabus
- 28
- Written exercises
- None yet
- Planned time
- ~42h
This page is the syllabus. The daily lessons for this month are not written yet, so opening a day shows that it is closed.
Open week 1Builds on
Endgame judgement from Month 03.
Prepares you for
Rook endgames, the most common technical conversion of your structures.
Why this month exists
Month 4 is the pawn-structure syllabus: typical plans, piece placement, pawn breaks, and exchanges.
What you will develop
- Identify major pawn structures on sight
- Name typical plans and breaks for each structure
- Improve the worst piece before inventing attacks
- Choose exchanges that fit the structure
Weekly structure
Week 01 · IQP & Carlsbad
Week overviewWeek 02 · Hanging & Backward Pawns
Week overviewWeek 03 · Passed Pawns & Majorities
Week overviewWeek 04 · Centers & Piece Quality
Week overviewMonthly challenge
Build a personal structure notebook: IQP, Carlsbad, hanging pawns, backward pawn, majorities — each with plans, breaks, and one model game.