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Tactic Ninja - Sharpen Your Tactical Arsenal with a Grandmaster

Course 383 episodes
(19 hours 26 min)

Creators GM Avetik Grigoryan

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Together with 5 coaches, we’ve worked for 6 months on this chess tactics course to prepare for you easy-to-digest material. We’ll introduce you to all tactical patterns and how to notice them in a real game.

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What you'll learn

The most basic and common tactical patterns like pins, skewers, forks, double attacks and more.
Tactical patterns like intermediate moves, x-ray, and interference that could be easy to miss.
How to use 2 tactical patterns to find the best continuation.
All important chess tactics that are likely to appear in a real game.
The art of meeting opponent's threats with your own counter-tactics.
The 3 key questions that will help you to see tactics in a real game.
GM Levon Aronian's advice on noticing resources in a position.
How to notice hidden tactics and more.

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Course Content

383
Episodes
2475
Quizzes & Trainings
1
Attachments
19 hours 26 min

Course overview

Unlocked 1m 21s

1. Instructions

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2. The steps we'll go through

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3. Introduction for 2000-2500 players

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1. Introduction

2. What's Pinning and Pinned Piece

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4. Rook Also Pins

5. The Queen? Why not?!

6. Who Can Pin?

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7. Smothered Mate and Pin

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10. Situational Pin

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11. Do you mind if I test you?

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Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. What is Skewer

3. Absolute and Relative Skewers

4. Examples with Skewer

5. Pin + Skewer

6. Tactics with Skewer

7. A Challenging Puzzle

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Types of Forks

3. Absolute Fork vs Relative Fork

5. Unstoppable Fork

6. Fork Delivery

7. Before going to other pieces

8. Unbelievable Move

11. Fork with a Tempo

12. Absolute Fork with Queen

13. Relative Fork with Queen

15. Bishop Fork

18. Tactics with Fork

19. I hope you don't mind

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Removing the Mate Defender

3. Removing the Piece Defender

4. Removing the Square Defender

5. Before we continue

6. The Upcoming Defender

7. Removing the Important Piece

8. What we've learned so far

9. Before we Continue

10. Are you ready?

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. What is Deflection

2. What you'll learn

3. Deflecting the Mate Defender

4. Deflecting the Piece Defender

5. Deflecting the Square Defender

6. Deflecting the Important Piece

7. Deflection in the Endgames

8. Are you ready?

9. Tactics with Deflection

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. What is Distraction

3. Distracting the Piece Defender

4. Distracting the Mate Defender

5. What is Overloading

6. How to notice such tactics

7. The 3rd Motive

8. How to Exploit the Overloaded Piece

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Winning Material

3. Mate is Coming!

5. Setting up a Discovered Check

6. Removing the Obstacles

7. Types of Discovered Checks

8. Tactics with Discovered Check

11. This is not the end

12. Discovered Checks in the Opening

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Reti R. - Tartakower S. "The Immortal Game by Reti"

3. Anderssen A. - Dufresne J. "Anderssen's Immortal Queen Sacrifice"

4. Falling in Love

5. Double Check + Mate

6. Winning Material

7. Cold or Hot?

8. Tactics with Double Check

9. Testing you, Testing me...

11. Checkmate in the Opening

12. Congratulations

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. What is Windmill

3. Torre R. - Lasker E. "The First Windmill"

4. The Rook Supports the Bishop

5. Bishop + Knight

6. Windmill + Mate

7. Windmill + Draw

10. It was cool, wasn't it?

1. Introduction

2. What is Discovered Attack

3. Why Many Chessplayers Get Confused

4. Winning Material with Relative Discovered Attack

5. Winning Material with Absolute Discovered Attack

6. Opening Traps

7. Common Blunders on Long Diagonals

8. How to Set up a Discovered Attack

9. Removing the Obstacles

13. Congratulations

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. What is Double Attack

2. Discovered Attack and Mate

3. Mate or Piece

4. Double Threats

5. The nightmare puzzle of my childhood!

8. NN - Morphy P.

9. Suetin A. - Sherbakov R.

10. Maric R. - Gligoric S.

11. Anand V. - Lautier J. "The craziest double attack ever"

13. Let's move on!

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Decoy and Discovered Check

3. Decoy and Discovered Attack

4. Decoy and Pin

5. Decoy and Skewer

6. Decoy and Fork

7. Decoy and Mate

8. Decoy in the Openings

9. Are you ready?

10. Petrosian's famous combination

12. One more trick

13. C'mon - Example 1

14. C'mon - Example 2

15. C'mon - Example 3

16. C'mon - Example 4

17. C'mon - Example 5, Alekhine A. - Von Feldt M.

18. C'mon - Example 6 - Lasker E. - Thomas G. The Best One

19. We're almost done

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. What is X-Ray?

2. Mate with X-Ray

3. X-Ray and Back rank mate

4. Winning material with X-Ray

5. It's tactics time!

6. Tactics - Part 1

7. Tactics - Part 2

8. Tactics - Part 3

9. The most challenging example, Mamedyarov S. - Timofeev A.

10. It's test time!

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Powerful checks

4. Run and mate

6. A blunder on move 6!

7. Fianchetto Bishop

8. A typical blunder in Sicilians

9. Intermediate moves in Pirc Defense

10. It's tactics time!

13. Tactics 3, Carlsen M. - Anand V.

21. It's test time!

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Lifeline - Saving a piece

3. Counter-Threats for saving material

4. Using the King

5. Dealing with pins

6. Why run away if we can attack?!

7. Tactic 1 - Byrne R. - Kavalek L.

9. Tactic 3 - De Jong J. - Bartel M.

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. What is interference?

3. Tactics with interference

4. Interference and back rank

9. I hope you don't mind :)

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Fischer R. - Benko P. 1963

3. Blocking the pawns

4. Blocking the escape

5. When do we use Blocking?

1. Introduction

2. What's that?

3. Bombardinio 1

4. Bombardinio 2 - Maroczy G. - Vidmar M.

5. Bombardinio 3 - Mastrovasilis A. - Marechal A.

6. Bombardinio 4

7. Bombardinio 5 - Tarrasch S. - Marotti N.

8. Bombardinio 6

9. Before the test

1. Introduction

2. What is Clearance?

3. Clearing the square for mating

4. Clearing the square for winning material

5. Clearing a diagonal

6. Clearing a file

7. Clearing a rank

8. Tactic time!

Training: Level 1

Training: Level 2

1. Introduction

2. Annihilation

5. Interference

8. The 6 tactical motives

9. Tactics in the endgame

10. Challenge 1

11. Challenge 2

12. What about middlegame?

13. Unstoppable pawns in the middlegame

14. The winning pawn

15. A trap in Semi-Slav

16. My favourite trap

17. Mating with promotion

18. Are you ready?

1. Introduction

2. Underpromotion with a check

3. When do we need a Rook?

4. Selesniev's Puzzle

5. Feijter's Puzzle

6. When do we need a Bishop?

7. Troitzky's Puzzle

8. Hek's Puzzle

9. Pogosiants' Puzzle

10. Practical puzzles

11. Tactics - Part 1

12. Tactics - Part 2

13. Tactics - Part 3

14. Before the test

15. A tricky test

1. Introduction

2. Greek gift on h7, Part 1

3. Greek gift on h7, Part 2

4. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 1

5. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 2

6. Removing g and h pawns, Part 1

7. Removing g and h pawns, Part 2

8. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 1

9. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 2

10. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 1

11. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 2

12. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 1

13. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 2

14. Improving calculations

15. Multiple sacrifices, Part 1

16. Multiple sacrifices, Part 2

17. The king in the center, Part 1

18. The king in the center, Part 2

1. Introduction

2. Example 1 and an important tip!

3. Example 2 - Attention!

4. Example 3 - The angry coach

5. Example 4 - The proud coach

6. Example 5 - The key for avoiding painful blunders

7. Example 6 - The game of the year

8. Example 7 - Executing the tactical idea, not the move!

9. Example 8 - The correct square

10. Example 9 - A very tricky one

11. Example 10 - Countering the counter-tactic

1. Introduction

2. The three key questions

1. Introduction

1. Introduction

1. Introduction

5. Example 4 - Aronian's advice

1. Congratulations

2. What's next?

3. How to sharpen even more - Step 1

4. How to sharpen even more - Step 2

5. How to sharpen even more Step 3

7. Mating patterns

11. If you're not Morphy

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