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The Art of Checkmate (2022)
Published 07/2022
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280x720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Genre: eLearning | Language: English + srt | Duration: 604 lectures (20h 39m) | Size: 24.6 GB
The patterns and processes which enable mating opportunities on the chess board
What you'll learn
Ability to leverage and amplify the important checkmating patterns for your own games
Ability to construct mating nets - taking out key escape squares
Ability to solve mate combination puzzles much better than before
Ability to improve chess rating through ruthless checkmate combinations
Ability to recognise key weakness of last move, support squares, liberational effects when calculating variations
Ability to think of the key mating patterns concisely without necessarily worrying too much about remembering names
Ability to have support remembering mating pattern names which does have advantage of looking up examples more easily
Ability to have funny ways to remember the mate pattern names - and also "Name on Tin" methods especially
Ability to amplify like never before mating patterns which may be heavily disguised in the position
Ability to appreciate the great beauty of mating combinations played by players of all levels and times in chess history
Ablity to make use of "amplification" as a key chess skill in general - on the same power level as calculation, evaluation, visualisation
Ability to get a very low tolerance for sources of hassle or defensive resource - becoming skilled at removing them at source
Ability to make use of amplification of mating patterns and their components to greatly simplify and ease calculation, visualisation, calculation pressure
Requirements
Knows how the chess pieces move
Description
Checkmate is a game-ender. You can sacrifice potentially all your pieces except for example a Knight but deliver checkmate with that Knight. Or even a pawn. As such checkmates creates great dynamic opportunities in Chess middlegames and encourages attacking and dynamic players to try and expose the opponent's King as far as possible to help enable checkmate attacks.
This course examines the patterns and processes which enable mating opportunities on the chessboard. There are various "art" forms covered in this course and artistic perspectives as well.
The basic art form of checkmates is to know the mating patterns that exist and can often be re-used or encourage deeper calculations. But other forms of checkmate often involving attracting the opponent's King out of his shelter and sometimes down the entire chess board creating an artistic effect in it's own right. Sometimes the opponent's king is simply attracted a little bit down the board and his reverse options to safety are prevented. Brining the opponent's King even just a little bit to our own resources creates an artistic effect of seeming effortless and reinforces the importance of King safety independent of the opponent potentially sacrificing many pieces. The King is a sensitive piece especially in the Opening and middlegame but can of course be freer in general to come out to play and be useful in endgames. Even in endgames though, dangers of being mated need to be factored in continually, and may be part of the necessary way of winning certain endgames.
Who this course is for
Beginner to intermediate chess players
More advanced players wanting to check out checkmates of World champions and other great players
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