Online Training to Improve Your Chess Step by Step.
Learning chess can be overwhelming if done alone. To succeed, it is crucial to follow a well-defined training plan that allows you to progressively improve your level.
ChessEnigma is designed for those who want to improve their chess skills but don’t know where to start.
Who is the ChessEnigma Program for?
Beginners who are just starting in the chess world and are committed to learning.
Children who have started playing chess and want to advance to the next level.
Enthusiasts who want to improve their ELO rating on online platforms and participate in training tournaments.
Tournament Participants who wish to deeply understand chess.
Intermediate Players who want to solidify their foundations and be part of a chess community.
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How Will You Improve with ChessEnigma?
Micro-learning
Online lessons of approximately 20 minutes each, where you will learn a new concept every day. You can access from any device and location.
Practical Method
Interactive exercises and activities where you can apply everything you've learned to reinforce the theoretical lessons.
Enigma Challenge
Tactical training that you can practice at any time to improve your calculation and pattern recognition.
Tournaments
Monthly tournaments where you can compete against other program members of your level.
Who will you learn with?
Grandmaster Arturs Neiksans is Latvia’s number one chess player and a highly experienced coach. With a peak ELO of 2631, he has competed at the highest levels and trained top players, including IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess).
🏅 Highlights of his career:
– Peak FIDE rating: 2631 (December 2016)
– Grandmaster title since 2012
– Four-time Latvian Chess Champion (1999, 2011, 2015, 2019)
– Head Coach at Riga Chess School (2010-2021)
– Coach of IM Levy Rozman (GothamChess)
– Seven-time Olympiad participant for Latvia (2000-2024)
– Winner of the Ilmar Raud Memorial (2015, 2020)
– Champion of the Summer Chess Classic C (USA, 2019)
– Top performer in multiple international tournaments, including RTU Open and Liepājas Rokāde
– FIDE-accredited trainer since 2012
What's Included?
The program contains a total of 128 classes that you can watch whenever you want:
- 64 online lessons of approximately 20 minutes each, available anywhere and from any device.
- 64 interactive lessons with practical exercises to reinforce learned concepts.
- Tactical training to improve your pattern recognition.
- Monthly tournaments with other members.
- Lifetime access to the private platform and program content.
Improving at chess can become very challenging without a structured plan. I created ChessEnigma as the training program I wish I had during my development as a chess player.
How Will You Learn?
Theoretical Lessons
Video classes of approximately 10-25 minutes where we will study a new concept each day with examples mostly taken from Grandmaster games.
Interactive Lessons
After the theoretical lesson, you can practice what you’ve learned with exercises you can solve on a digital board using Enigma Training technology.
Discover the Enigma Challenge
Enigma Speed
Train your speed to identify tactical combinations as quickly as possible in your games.
Enigma Time
Act under time pressure to find the combination that can win the game quickly.
Enigma Memory
Improve your visualization with memory exercises where you have to recall the board position to solve a problem.
Enigma Focus
Concentrate and gain the patience needed to solve exercises accurately without making mistakes.
Enigma Test
Verify that you know what it takes to advance to the next level by solving all the test exercises.
Overcome the challenge and win against Rey Enigma by completing all levels.
Training Plan
1. The Initiative
2. Defective Development
3. Losing a tempo
4. King in the center
5. Pin
6. The Importance of Pawns
7. The Pawn Sacrifice in the Opening
8. Thematic Resources in Opening
9. You Have an Oponnent in Front
10. Key Ideas With 1.e4 e5
11. Key Ideas in Semi-Open
12. Key Ideas With 1.d4 d5
13. Key Ideas in Semi-Closed
14. Weak Targets: f2-f7
15. Sacrifice on g4-g5
Evaluation Test 1
16. The Relative Value of Pieces
17. Pair of Bishops18. Central Domination
19. How to Restrict the Opponent’s Pieces
20. Power of the Pieces: The knight
21. Power of the Pieces: The Bishop
22. Power of the Pieces: The Rook
23. Power of the Pieces: The Queen
24. The Harmony of Pieces
25. Misplaced Pieces
26. Weak Squares
27. Castling Weaknesses
28. Opposite Castling
Evaluation Test 2
29. Double Attack
30. Removing the Defender
31. Overloaded Pieces
32. The pin
33. Defense
34. Destroying the Guard
35. In-Between Move
36. Unstoppable Threats
37. Attraction
38. Interference
Evaluation Test 3
39. Active King
40. Rook Endings
41. Active Rook
42. Passed Pawns
43. Technique
44. Queen Endings
45. Knight Endings
46. Bishop Endings
47. Opposite Color Bishops
48. Pawn Endings
49. Rook + Minor Piece Endings
50. Bishop vs Knight Endgame
51. Zugzwang
Evaluation Test 4
52. Essential Pawn Structures: Carlsbad and Caro-Kann
53. Essential Pawn Structures: French and Sicilian
54. Essential Pawn Structures: Symmetrical and King’s Indian
55. Pawns: Isolated Pawn
56. Pawns: Hanging Pawns
57. Pawns: Doubled Pawns
59. Pawns: Breakthroughs
58. Pawn Majority vs Minority
60. The Strategic Sacrifice I: Pawn
61. The Strategic Sacrifice I: Exchange
62. Opposite-Colored Bishop Positions
63. The Enigmatic Square (Outpost)
64. Simplification
Evaluation Test 5
Student Reviews
Once you join the program, you will become part of a healthy and sporty community that seeks to improve and enjoy chess.
Private Group Chat with Rey Enigma
You will join a private Telegram group where you will be informed of all program activities.
Training Matches
You will find players of your level to play against at different game paces, allowing you to practice and analyze the games together.
Joining the ENIGMA CLUB
You will have lifetime access to a community as eager as you to improve in chess, with priority in enigmatic activities.
Frequently Asked Questions
GENERAL
ChessEnigma is a 100% online training program based on a very practical learning method consisting of approximately 20-minute daily lessons, interactive exercises, tactical training and monthly tournaments with program members.
You will have lifetime access to the private platform with all the program content and updates without any additional payment.
The training program combines 10/25-minute classes with interactive lessons that you can learn at your own pace from any device and location. There are also live sessions, where we hold tournaments and exclusive activities for program members.
Every month, a tournament with other members will be held to put learned concepts into practice. Additionally, you will have access to a chat where you can interact with all the program members
Yes. To ensure you have understood and delved into the concepts explained in the classes, you will have to complete a test at the end of each block. This test will help you internalize the concepts you have learned.
METHODOLOGY
In these lessons, you will learn one concept each day with 100% practical explanations.
These are practical lessons where you will have to solve exercises on a digital board, applying what you have learned in the theoretical lessons.
These are competitions where you will face other program members to test all the learned concepts.
Yes, there will be a specific section for doubts that we will periodically address and a support section for questions about the platform.
PAYMENT
CHESSENIGMA PROGRAM + ENIGMA CHALLENGE
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- Lifetime access to the private platform and program content
- 64 theoretical video, image, and text lessons
- 64 interactive lessons with practical exercises
- Basic and advanced strategy exercises
- Exclusive tournaments for ChessEnigma members
- Tactical Training for pattern recognition
- Doubt resolution
- Private group chat with Rey Enigma and other members
- Training matches
- Progress tracking through tests and level assessments
- Support via email and WhatsApp
- Lifetime access to the Enigma Club
- Complete course: Enigma Challenge
30% off until March 1*
Lifetime access and 15-day satisfaction guarantee
CHESSENIGMA PROGRAM + ENIGMA CHALLENGE
- Lifetime access to the private platform and program content
- 64 theoretical video, image, and text lessons
- 64 interactive lessons with practical exercises
- Basic and advanced strategy exercises
- Exclusive tournaments for ChessEnigma members
- Tactical Training for pattern recognition
- Doubt resolution forum
- Private group chat with Rey Enigma and other members
- Training matches
- Progress tracking through tests and level assessments
- Support via email and WhatsApp
- Lifetime access to the Enigma Club
- Complete course: Enigma Challenge
30% off until March 1*