The Complete Guide to Chess Tactics
What you’ll learn
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Be able to use a fundamental understanding of chess tactics and combinations to sky-rocket your results and rating
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Be able to make sure opportunities are not missed in Calculation using Weakness of last move, Common squares, and “In-Effect”
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Be able to make use of the important tactical motifs like Fork, Deflection, Decoy, Pins, Discovered Checks, and many more etc
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Be able to get a feel for downsides of opponents position which could imply a combination exists
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Be able to use chess combinations to often win by force from positions where no issues visually seem present
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Be able to know the philosophies of great tactical examples explained in depth and re-use them in your own games
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Be able to use inspirational calculation aids such as “The power of the pinned piece is illusionary” and “Combine and win”
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Be able to understand the importance of the prioritisation of forcing moves when calculating to limit the opponent’s replies
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Be able to appreciate the examples of combinations from the World chess champions
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Be able to exploit the default downside often of the Weak Back Rank
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Be able to exploit your passed pawn potential through tactical means
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Be able to exploit loose piece liabilities of the opponent
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Be able to exploit King safety issues of the opponent
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Be able to detect tactical issues and “celebrate” them using the concept word of “down-sides” throughout the examples
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Be able to understand the Fundamentals of Chess Tactics – Forcing moves, checks, captures, threats of mate and limiting opponent options in general
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Be able to match appropriate combinations with the downsides of the opponents position
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Be able to maximise the differential imposed between strengths of your position and opponent weaknesses
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Be able to play brilliant and beautiful chess combinations – but be warned you may lose sleep over them
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Be able to detect if combinations exist using various approaches of detection and examples
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Be able to finish off opponents quickly and get a new game in the all-you-can eat online tournaments
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Be able to play with very high accuracy sharp combinations
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Be able to recognise all the key mating patterns that have been established through Chess History
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Be able to practice with multiple examples all key tactical instruments which are part of combination
These tactical patterns are very useful to practice and help internalise.
- Absolute Pin
- Advanced Pawn
- Annihilation of Defence
- Alekhine’s Gun
- Attraction
- Battery
- Blockading defensive resources
- Capture
- Capture the Defender
- Checks – gaining key tempo e.g. winning material via checks
- Clearance
- Combine and Win tactics
- Connected passed pawns
- Counterplay management move
- Counter Threat
- Cross-check
- Cross-pin
- Decoy
- Deflection
- Demolition of Pawns around opponent’s king
- Demolition of Pawn Structure
- Desperado
- Discovered Attack
- Domination
- Double Attack
- Double Check
- Draw Tactics
- Endgame Tactics
- Exchange sacrifice
- f2 (or f7) weakness
- Forcing Moves
- Fork
- Goal Hanging Tactics e.g. N on f5 (also see Thorn pawn)
- Greek Gift Sacrifice
- Indirect Defense
- Interference
- Intermediate move (synonym: Zuichenzug)
- King Aggression in Endgames
- King Chase
- Liberational tactics
- Opposition
- Overload the defender
- Weakness of last move
- Passed pawn creation
- Pawn-Fork
- Pawn Tactics
- Pawn Breakthrough
- Perpetual Attack
- Perpetual Check
- Pins – Absolute
- Pins – Relative
- Pins – Celebration
- Positional Tactic
- Prophylaxis move
- Removing King Escape Squares
- Rook lift
- Sacrifice (Positional)
- Sacrifice (calculated)
- Simplification
- Queen and Bishop Battery
- Quiet but killer move (greatly used in Alekhine combinations)
- Relative Pin
- Remove the Defender
- Sacrifice
- Simplification
- Situational Pin
- Soft spot sacrifice
- Strategic Crush tactic – e.g. locking in bishop, good knight
- Skewer
- Stalemate Tactics
- Tempo Tactics
- Thorn Pawns
- Threat making
- Trapped Piece
- Triangulation
- Two Rooks Battery
- Two Rooks on 7th Rank
- Under-promotion
- Weak Back-Rank
- Weakness of last move
- Windmill
- X-Ray
- X-Ray Attack
- X-Ray Defense
- Zugzwang
- Zwischenzug
Mating Patterns (alphabetically)
These mating patterns are useful to practice and help internalise.
- Anastasia’s mate
- Anderssen’s mate
- Arabian mate
- Back-rank mate
- Bishop and knight mate
- Blackburne’s mate
- Blind swine mate
- Boden’s mate
- Box mate (Rook mate)
- Combine and Win Mate
- Corner mate
- Cozio’s mate
- Damiano’s bishop mate
- Damiano’s mate
- David and Goliath mate
- Double bishop mate
- Dovetail mate
- Epaulette mate
- Fool’s mate
- Greco’s mate
- Hook mate
- Kill Box mate
- King and two bishops mate
- King and two knights mate
- Ladder checkmate
- Légal mate
- Lolli’s mate
- Max Lange’s mate
- Mayet’s mate
- Morphy’s mate
- Opera mate
- Pillsbury’s mate
- Queen mate
- Réti’s mate
- Smothered mate
- Support mate
- Suffocation mate
- Swallow’s tail mate
“Opponent Downsides” aka “Tactical Issues” aka “Tactical Liabilities” aka “Weakness of Position” Patterns
These help you intuitively identify if a combination may exist in the position.
- Awkward Pieces (trappable)
- King Safety Issues e.g. Back rank
- Loose pieces (unprotected)
- Overworked pieces
- Pieces away from King
- Tactical Liabilities in general
- Weaknesses in general
Who this course is for:
- Chess beginner and intermediate players will get massive results improvement from this course
- Even more experienced players who want to sharpen their tactics. Every chess player can improve their tactical skills.
Can I download The Complete Guide to Chess Tactics course?
You can download videos for offline viewing in the Android/iOS app. When course instructors enable the downloading feature for lectures of the course, then it can be downloaded for offline viewing on a desktop.Can I get a certificate after completing the course?
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