The Complete Guide to Chess Tactics

Chess Tactics, Calculation and Pattern recognition skills that will enable you create beautiful winning combinations

Be able to use a fundamental understanding of chess tactics and combinations to sky-rocket your results and rating

Be able to make sure opportunities are not missed in Calculation using Weakness of last move, Common squares, and “In-Effect”

Be able to make use of the important tactical motifs like Fork, Deflection, Decoy, Pins, Discovered Checks, and many more etc

Be able to get a feel for downsides of opponents position which could imply a combination exists

Be able to use chess combinations to often win by force from positions where no issues visually seem present

Be able to know the philosophies of great tactical examples explained in depth and re-use them in your own games

Be able to use inspirational calculation aids such as “The power of the pinned piece is illusionary” and “Combine and win”

Be able to understand the importance of the prioritisation of forcing moves when calculating to limit the opponent’s replies

Be able to appreciate the examples of combinations from the World chess champions

Be able to exploit the default downside often of the Weak Back Rank

Be able to exploit your passed pawn potential through tactical means

Be able to exploit loose piece liabilities of the opponent

Be able to exploit King safety issues of the opponent

Be able to detect tactical issues and “celebrate” them using the concept word of “down-sides” throughout the examples

Be able to understand the Fundamentals of Chess Tactics – Forcing moves, checks, captures, threats of mate and limiting opponent options in general

Be able to match appropriate combinations with the downsides of the opponents position

Be able to maximise the differential imposed between strengths of your position and opponent weaknesses

Be able to play brilliant and beautiful chess combinations – but be warned you may lose sleep over them

Be able to detect if combinations exist using various approaches of detection and examples

Be able to finish off opponents quickly and get a new game in the all-you-can eat online tournaments

Be able to play with very high accuracy sharp combinations

Be able to recognise all the key mating patterns that have been established through Chess History

Be able to practice with multiple examples all key tactical instruments which are part of combinations

Knows the basics of playing Chess

And that is to make you a much stronger tactician than ever before in your life. You should be in a much better position by training with this course to create beautiful chess combinations on the chessboard which feature a wide range of patterns and demonstrate amazing calculation ability. In short, the goal of the course is to make you a very strong chess tactician and help you enjoy your chess to the absolute maximum.

This course has a structure which is essentially is “process” and “patterns”.

PROCESS: The Art of Chess Calculation

The “process” aspect is the art of chess calculation. Even if you didn’t know a single tactical pattern by name, you could still play amazing tactics just with great calculation which the course gives you a solid foundation in. Yes, even if you didn’t know your forks from your pins, the “Process” part of the course as in the art of calculation would still enable you to play great chess combinations using an entire orchestra of tactical patterns without even knowing their names.

But training yourself on patterns will enhance your art of calculation and you will be able to name the key tactical patterns which are important for searching them out to practice and discuss with others as well as prompt during your calculations.

“Process” is like the software of your chess mind. “Patterns” are like the Content for that software. You need both the software and the content to be really effective as a tactician!.