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Understanding chess tactics | How to calculate tactics well

Learn how to calculate variations with a grandmaster
Rating: 4.6 out of 54.6 (245 ratings)
1,157 students
Created by Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
Last updated 6/2020
English
30-Day Money-Back Guarantee

What you'll learn

  • Get first-hand grandmaster experience that can be implemented in any game
  • Learn to find chess tactics in more efficient way
  • Study the key questions that will significantly improve your tactical vision
  • Understand why chess tactics appear in the first place

Requirements

  • You should know how chess pieces work

Description

This course will boost your understanding of chess and will sharpen your tactical vision. By the end of the course you will truly understand why chess tactics appeared in the position, what were the signs that triggered the combination, what exact steps does it take to find most of chess combinations. Spoiler alert: I am going to take away a little bit of mystery out of chess and replace it with some logic!


Learn and Master Chess Tactics with Successful Grandmaster

· Find chess combinations efficiently

· Recognize the signs that trigger tactics

· Learn typical tactical patterns

· Build up understanding of chess


This course will get your calculation abilities to the next level


The course is for Beginner to Intermediate chess players. I also put several examples that would be interesting even for grandmasters but I explained them in the fashion that anyone with basic understanding of how chess pieces move could get it. In the final section, I am going to show an opening combination that many grandmasters do not know (including yours truly until year 2014).

After you finish the course, you will be able to understand most of chess combinations that you will see on a much deeper level.


The course is broken into 5 sections.

Section 1: I explain what are 4 main questions to ask during the game and how they help you find chess tactics

Section 2: I use relatively simple puzzles to show how my method is working. You will learn additional helpful questions besides the four main ones.

Section 3: I show how to use my method to crack much harder puzzles.

Section 4: Covers most important tactical motifs and the signs that trigger those motifs.

Section 5: You will find GM games and one tricky opening tactics that many high class GMs do not know! You will find short summary of the course at the end.

Each section has downloadable pdf and pgn files with previously analyzed positions.

Who this course is for:

· Beginner/hobby chess players who want to become better at chess in general and in tactics specifically

· Chess enthusiasts that want to take a glimpse into how grandmasters calculate variations



Who this course is for:

  • Chess players of any level

Featured review

Marian Chicu
Marian Chicu
18 courses
7 reviews
Rating: 5.0 out of 52 months ago
Very good course on how to spot tactical moments. The video implementation could be a bit better (at times the sound has some glitches), but the information itself is great. There are plenty of puzzles on lichess/chess.com for one to try his/her forces on with the new knowledge.

Course content

5 sections • 15 lectures • 2h 35m total length

  • Preview02:07
  • Preview07:14
  • First positions (more detailed explanation)
    08:00

  • Easy examples-1 (my method)
    06:54
  • Easier examples-2 (my method)
    07:45
  • Easier examples-3 (my method)
    10:34

  • Preview03:33
  • Harder examples-2 (my method)
    07:52
  • Harder examples-3 (my method)
    04:42
  • Harder examples-4 (my method)
    18:31

  • Fork+Double attack-1 (typical signs)
    10:49
  • Fork+Double attack-2 (typical signs)
    16:15
  • Pin+Skewer (typical signs)
    17:14
  • Discoveries+Overload+Eliminating the defender (typical signs)
    16:08

  • GM games + Conclusion
    17:52

Instructor

Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
Grandmaster, Champion of Ukraine, PhD in Math, FIDE Trainer
Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko
  • 4.7 Instructor Rating
  • 571 Reviews
  • 1,809 Students
  • 2 Courses

Hi, my name is Mykhaylo Oleksiyenko.

I have been playing chess for as long as I remember. I started at four years old and till this day chess deeply fascinates me!

I want to share my love for chess as well as the things that I have learned over the years with anyone who is ready to listen. Also I am trying to implement my mathematical/logical/scientific background to chess.

Here are my current accomplishments:

International grandmaster since 2005.

PhD in mathematics since 2012.

Rapid chess champion of Ukraine (2014).

Chess champion of Ukraine (2016)

FIDE Trainer since 2015.

Official commentator of World Team Chess Championship (Ankara, 2013) and FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship Match (Lviv, 2016)

Coach of national teams of the Netherlands (women), Egypt and Ukraine.

I have been teaching chess since 2012. I was privileged to work with the following national teams - Ukraine, Egypt and Netherlands. There were also quite a number of GMs, IMs and a lot of players without any title that I helped on individual level.

I hope you will enjoy my courses and I look forward to your feedback!

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