The Powerful Pair: Using Horwitz Bishops in Chess

MoveTrainer ® Strategy course by NM
Elijah Logozar(2801 Online Rating, 2242 USCF)

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Takes only a week to learn, but keeps the rating gains coming for years!

Over 175 Years Later, People Still Copy The Way He Handled The Bishops

When chess master Bernard Horwitz got his hands on them, he caught fire and brilliancies followed. Rooks and queens — sacrificed for a single point of material. Pawns yanked forward to pry open diagonals. Because when Horwitz’ bishops find their mark, it’s game over!

Even one of the most creative and most resourceful grandmasters ever had to admit:

None Can Stand Against It
"To withstand the pressure of two united bishops on the adjacent a1-h8 and b1-h7 diagonals is beyond the powers of any Grandmaster."
— David Bronstein, 1951 World Championship Challenger

If you want to gain this power not even GMs can stand against…

Then enter The Powerful Pair: Using Horwitz Bishops in Chess.

This Chessable strategy course teaches you how to win with the two bishops next to each other. It turns a natural asset you start every game with… into a crushing, near-indefensible attack.

Two United Bishops:
The attacking piece formation not
even the best players on the
planet can defend against!

Only 3 focused chapters and 52 MoveTrainer exercises to study. You can complete the course in under a week.

But the impact?
It can keep rating points rolling in for years. After all, you start every game with the bishop pair, and now you’ll know how to win with it.

Elijah Logozar shows you the ropes.

He’s a National Master and a long-time community author. One whose teaching style blends deep knowledge with a knack for organizing ideas.

Creating this course was one of the smartest decisions he made for his chess growth — and yours, too.

Inspired by the appearance of Horwitz’s bishops in one of his own games, Elijah took a deep dive.

He ran into this masterpiece by Polish chess legend Akiba Rubinstein. And he never looked back.

Analyzed inside — Rubinstein’s masterclass
in creating bigger threats, distracting defenders
away, and weaving mating nets

He studied the countless ways to pry open diagonals for the pair.

He uncovered the alignment tactics they quietly set up from a mile away.

And game after game, he developed a healthy disrespect for material. The kind that lets you step into attacked squares with a smirk…

Because when your bishops are this strong, you always have a bigger fish to fry!

Never mind that Black controls d5 twice —
you push 17.d5! Anyway and achieve a
winning assault ratio with your bishops

What started as a lucky “accident” became a trusted method for seizing the initiative and going after the king.

Horwitz’s bishops helped Logozar clinch the NM title. And they just might power your next breakthrough, too.

Inside, you’ll revisit classics played over 100 years ago. But you’ll also put Horwitz’s bishops to the test against modern, super-GM opponents.

You’ll replay the games of Garry Kasparov (13th World Champion), Vishy Anand (5-time World Champion), Judit Polgar (peak 2735 FIDE)… and see for yourself that:

Even the toughest defenders couldn’t hold back Horwitz’s bishops!

In the final chapter, Logozar shows you how to reach the Horwitz formation from the opening.

So right from move 1, you can steer the game to bishop-favored positions, where the moves you trained here are worth their weight in gold!

Once you’ve seen what Horwitz Bishops can do, you’ll never look at them the same way again. What used to be “a pair of long-range pieces” becomes your go-to unit for seizing the initiative.

They’re elegant. They’re brutal. And they’re sitting on your board from move 1 — ready to deploy!

“YES! I’m ready to take control of The Powerful Pair”

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Course stats

For: both pieces
Recommended for: Intermediate players, Advanced players
Language: English
Instruction: 48,741 words
Informational variations: 38
Puzzles: 52
Released on: Feb 17, 2026
Support level: High

Variation Details

Introduction and Archetypes (36 variations)
Supplementary Examples (40 variations)
Aiming for Rubinstein Bishops From The Opening (14 variations)

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