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Evaluating value: effectiveness, cost, and fit When deciding whether Smirnov’s courses (or any chess course) are “better” and worth paying for, consider:

Frustrated, Leo slammed the laptop shut. The screen flickered—and stayed on. Static crawled across the display like digital frost. Then, a face formed. Not Igor Smirnov’s polished thumbnail face, but a younger, sharper version: a grandmaster in a hoodie, sipping tea.

The screen split into nine windows—each showing a key moment from each course. Course #3: Attacking the King . Course #7: Beating Lower-Rated Players . Course #9: Clutch Tactics . They swirled together into a single, ugly position: a middlegame from Leo’s last loss.