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- 1. Introduction 35s
- 2. What's Pinning and Pinned Piece 3m 16s
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- 3. Killer Pin 2m 52s
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- 4. Rook Also Pins 3m 3s
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- 5. The Queen? Why not?! 4m 9s
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- 6. Who Can Pin? 1m 39s
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- 7. Smothered Mate and Pin 4m 47s
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- 8. Double Pin 1m 39s
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- 9. Cross Pin 2m 54s
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- 10. Situational Pin 4m 23s
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- 11. Do you mind if I test you? 4m 36s
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- 12. Summary 1m 58s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 19s
- 2. What is Skewer 1m 32s
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- 3. Absolute and Relative Skewers 59s
- 4. Examples with Skewer 3m 33s
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- 5. Pin + Skewer 2m 28s
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- 6. Tactics with Skewer 5m 29s
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- 7. A Challenging Puzzle 5m 1s
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- 8. Test 7m 58s
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- 9. Summary 1m 4s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 32s
- 2. Types of Forks 2m 19s
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- 3. Absolute Fork vs Relative Fork 3m 25s
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- 4. Triple Fork 1m 5s
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- 5. Unstoppable Fork 2m 28s
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- 6. Fork Delivery 1m 58s
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- 7. Before going to other pieces 30s
- 8. Unbelievable Move 2m 43s
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- 9. Pawn Fork 2m 58s
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- 10. Pin + Fork 2m 10s
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- 11. Fork with a Tempo 1m 39s
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- 12. Absolute Fork with Queen 2m 0s
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- 13. Relative Fork with Queen 1m 53s
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- 14. Rook Fork 2m 23s
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- 15. Bishop Fork 3m 15s
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- 16. King Fork 2m 6s
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- 17. Ready? 1m 0s
- 18. Tactics with Fork 10m 32s
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- 19. I hope you don't mind 29s
- 20. Test 6m 10s
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- 21. Conclusion 1m 16s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 1m 53s
- 2. Removing the Mate Defender 7m 27s
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- 3. Removing the Piece Defender 5m 36s
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- 4. Removing the Square Defender 4m 6s
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- 5. Before we continue 35s
- 6. The Upcoming Defender 7m 36s
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- 7. Removing the Important Piece 6m 37s
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- 8. What we've learned so far 35s
- 9. Before we Continue 6m 8s
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- 10. Are you ready? 56s
- 11. Test 6m 40s
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- 12. Conclusion 34s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. What is Deflection 2m 25s
- 2. What you'll learn 43s
- 3. Deflecting the Mate Defender 6m 13s
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- 4. Deflecting the Piece Defender 4m 4s
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- 5. Deflecting the Square Defender 3m 39s
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- 6. Deflecting the Important Piece 7m 7s
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- 7. Deflection in the Endgames 6m 47s
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- 8. Are you ready? 50s
- 9. Tactics with Deflection 10m 46s
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- 10. Test 8m 35s
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- 11. Summary 45s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 26s
- 2. What is Distraction 1m 21s
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- 3. Distracting the Piece Defender 2m 39s
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- 4. Distracting the Mate Defender 3m 41s
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- 5. What is Overloading 1m 38s
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- 6. How to notice such tactics 2m 20s
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- 7. The 3rd Motive 1m 59s
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- 8. How to Exploit the Overloaded Piece 30s
- 9. Tactic 1 1m 9s
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- 10. Tactic 2 1m 56s
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- 11. Tactic 3 2m 4s
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- 12. Tactic 4 1m 51s
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- 13. Tactic 5 2m 36s
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- 14. Test Time 21s
- 15. Test 4m 58s
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- 16. Conclusion 28s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 2m 6s
- 2. Winning Material 5m 19s
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- 3. Mate is Coming! 6m 17s
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- 4. Delivery 7m 35s
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- 5. Setting up a Discovered Check 4m 1s
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- 6. Removing the Obstacles 4m 15s
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- 7. Types of Discovered Checks 2m 9s
- 8. Tactics with Discovered Check 6m 13s
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- 9. Let's go! 25s
- 10. Test 7m 16s
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- 11. This is not the end 45s
- 12. Discovered Checks in the Opening 2m 46s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 2m 17s
- 2. Reti R. - Tartakower S. "The Immortal Game by Reti" 1m 53s
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- 3. Anderssen A. - Dufresne J. "Anderssen's Immortal Queen Sacrifice" 2m 14s
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- 4. Falling in Love 43s
- 5. Double Check + Mate 7m 33s
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- 6. Winning Material 4m 45s
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- 7. Cold or Hot? 23s
- 8. Tactics with Double Check 14m 52s
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- 9. Testing you, Testing me... 45s
- 10. Test 10m 15s
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- 11. Checkmate in the Opening 3m 19s
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- 12. Congratulations 1m 12s
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 40s
- 2. What is Windmill 3m 45s
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- 3. Torre R. - Lasker E. "The First Windmill" 2m 50s
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- 4. The Rook Supports the Bishop 1m 2s
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- 5. Bishop + Knight 53s
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- 6. Windmill + Mate 3m 59s
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- 7. Windmill + Draw 3m 27s
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- 8. Tactics 7m 45s
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- 9. Test 3m 34s
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- 10. It was cool, wasn't it? 37s
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- 1. Introduction 54s
- 2. What is Discovered Attack 4m 45s
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- 3. Why Many Chessplayers Get Confused 2m 23s
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- 4. Winning Material with Relative Discovered Attack 4m 46s
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- 5. Winning Material with Absolute Discovered Attack 2m 36s
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- 6. Opening Traps 4m 0s
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- 7. Common Blunders on Long Diagonals 1m 58s
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- 8. How to Set up a Discovered Attack 4m 24s
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- 9. Removing the Obstacles 1m 59s
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- 10. Let's Go! 28s
- 11. Tactics 10m 50s
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- 12. Test 6m 51s
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- 13. Congratulations 46s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. What is Double Attack 1m 47s
- 2. Discovered Attack and Mate 7m 25s
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- 3. Mate or Piece 6m 20s
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- 4. Double Threats 5m 7s
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- 5. The nightmare puzzle of my childhood! 4m 4s
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- 6. Let's go! 33s
- 7. Tactics 9m 1s
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- 8. NN - Morphy P. 1m 51s
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- 9. Suetin A. - Sherbakov R. 2m 0s
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- 10. Maric R. - Gligoric S. 1m 30s
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- 11. Anand V. - Lautier J. "The craziest double attack ever" 6m 10s
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- 12. Test 6m 26s
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- 13. Let's move on! 33s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 2m 16s
- 2. Decoy and Discovered Check 3m 46s
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- 3. Decoy and Discovered Attack 4m 25s
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- 4. Decoy and Pin 3m 6s
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- 5. Decoy and Skewer 4m 4s
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- 6. Decoy and Fork 5m 13s
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- 7. Decoy and Mate 2m 46s
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- 8. Decoy in the Openings 2m 51s
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- 9. Are you ready? 18s
- 10. Petrosian's famous combination 2m 26s
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- 11. Tactics 8m 31s
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- 12. One more trick 24s
- 13. C'mon - Example 1 1m 53s
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- 14. C'mon - Example 2 2m 7s
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- 15. C'mon - Example 3 1m 57s
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- 16. C'mon - Example 4 1m 28s
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- 17. C'mon - Example 5, Alekhine A. - Von Feldt M. 1m 44s
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- 18. C'mon - Example 6 - Lasker E. - Thomas G. The Best One 2m 8s
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- 19. We're almost done 10s
- 20. Test 10m 5s
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- 21. Conclusion 19s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. What is X-Ray? 1m 8s
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- 2. Mate with X-Ray 5m 42s
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- 3. X-Ray and Back rank mate 4m 38s
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- 4. Winning material with X-Ray 6m 46s
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- 5. It's tactics time! 14s
- 6. Tactics - Part 1 2m 6s
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- 7. Tactics - Part 2 3m 52s
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- 8. Tactics - Part 3 4m 12s
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- 9. The most challenging example, Mamedyarov S. - Timofeev A. 3m 21s
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- 10. It's test time! 14s
- 11. Test 5m 37s
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- 12. Conclusion 37s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 42s
- 2. Powerful checks 4m 0s
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- 3. Desperado 7m 48s
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- 4. Run and mate 5m 10s
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- 5. Run and win 5m 58s
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- 6. A blunder on move 6! 2m 16s
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- 7. Fianchetto Bishop 2m 16s
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- 8. A typical blunder in Sicilians 1m 52s
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- 9. Intermediate moves in Pirc Defense 4m 36s
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- 10. It's tactics time! 20s
- 11. Tactics 1 2m 9s
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- 12. Tactics 2 3m 45s
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- 13. Tactics 3, Carlsen M. - Anand V. 1m 25s
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- 14. Tactics 4 1m 34s
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- 15. Tactics 5 2m 45s
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- 16. Tactics 6 56s
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- 17. Tactics 7 1m 55s
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- 18. Tactics 8 2m 2s
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- 19. Tactics 9 1m 44s
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- 20. Tactics 10 1m 17s
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- 21. It's test time! 18s
- 22. Test 11m 22s
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- 23. Conclusion 27s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 1m 9s
- 2. Lifeline - Saving a piece 7m 49s
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- 3. Counter-Threats for saving material 4m 17s
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- 4. Using the King 4m 49s
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- 5. Dealing with pins 5m 20s
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- 6. Why run away if we can attack?! 18s
- 7. Tactic 1 - Byrne R. - Kavalek L. 1m 46s
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- 8. Tactic 2 2m 23s
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- 9. Tactic 3 - De Jong J. - Bartel M. 2m 44s
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- 10. Tactic 4 2m 33s
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- 11. Tactic 5 2m 21s
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- 12. Test time! 12s
- 13. Test 4m 47s
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- 14. Conclusion 27s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 21s
- 2. What is interference? 5m 49s
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- 3. Tactics with interference 5m 19s
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- 4. Interference and back rank 7m 21s
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- 5. Challenge 1 1m 33s
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- 6. Challenge 2 1m 16s
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- 7. Challenge 3 2m 51s
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- 8. Challenge 4 2m 17s
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- 9. I hope you don't mind :) 23s
- 10. Test 9m 41s
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- 11. Conclusion 27s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 26s
- 2. What's that? 1m 45s
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- 3. Bombardinio 1 1m 35s
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- 4. Bombardinio 2 - Maroczy G. - Vidmar M. 56s
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- 5. Bombardinio 3 - Mastrovasilis A. - Marechal A. 1m 26s
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- 6. Bombardinio 4 1m 19s
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- 7. Bombardinio 5 - Tarrasch S. - Marotti N. 1m 25s
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- 8. Bombardinio 6 1m 32s
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- 9. Before the test 17s
- 10. Test 5m 41s
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- 11. Conclusion 35s
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Training
- 1. Introduction 17s
- 2. What is Clearance? 1m 21s
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- 3. Clearing the square for mating 3m 50s
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- 4. Clearing the square for winning material 2m 24s
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- 5. Clearing a diagonal 2m 15s
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- 6. Clearing a file 3m 1s
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- 7. Clearing a rank 3m 37s
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- 8. Tactic time! 20s
- 9. Tactic 1 1m 52s
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- 10. Tactic 2 1m 37s
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- 11. Tactic 3 1m 10s
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- 12. Tactic 4 1m 26s
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- 13. Tactic 5 2m 2s
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- 14. Tactic 6 1m 51s
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- 15. Tactic 7 2m 12s
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- 16. Test time! 14s
- 17. Test 6m 17s
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- 18. Conclusion 18s
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Training: Level 1
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Training: Level 2
- 1. Introduction 37s
- 2. Annihilation 2m 19s
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- 3. Deflection 2m 20s
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- 4. Clearance 2m 11s
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- 5. Interference 3m 32s
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- 6. Blocking 4m 55s
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- 7. Decoy 1m 52s
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- 8. The 6 tactical motives 22s
- 9. Tactics in the endgame 5m 2s
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- 10. Challenge 1 2m 21s
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- 11. Challenge 2 2m 7s
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- 12. What about middlegame? 15s
- 13. Unstoppable pawns in the middlegame 1m 32s
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- 14. The winning pawn 3m 6s
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- 15. A trap in Semi-Slav 1m 45s
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- 16. My favourite trap 2m 49s
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- 17. Mating with promotion 1m 26s
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- 18. Are you ready? 19s
- 19. Test 5m 19s
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- 20. Conclusion 36s
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Training
- 1. Introduction 43s
- 2. Underpromotion with a check 4m 50s
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- 3. When do we need a Rook? 3m 11s
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- 4. Selesniev's Puzzle 1m 41s
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- 5. Feijter's Puzzle 2m 56s
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- 6. When do we need a Bishop? 2m 51s
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- 7. Troitzky's Puzzle 4m 1s
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- 8. Hek's Puzzle 2m 21s
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- 9. Pogosiants' Puzzle 4m 51s
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- 10. Practical puzzles 30s
- 11. Tactics - Part 1 2m 45s
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- 12. Tactics - Part 2 3m 17s
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- 13. Tactics - Part 3 5m 13s
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- 14. Before the test 14s
- 15. A tricky test 8m 8s
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- 16. Conclusion 53s
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Training
- 1. Introduction 45s
- 2. Greek gift on h7, Part 1 4m 12s
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- 3. Greek gift on h7, Part 2 2m 21s
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- 4. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 1 4m 15s
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- 5. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 2 2m 34s
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- 6. Removing g and h pawns, Part 1 4m 2s
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- 7. Removing g and h pawns, Part 2 3m 41s
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- 8. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 1 3m 24s
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- 9. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 2 1m 20s
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- 10. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 1 2m 56s
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- 11. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 2 2m 4s
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- 12. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 1 3m 45s
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- 13. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 2 5m 14s
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- 14. Improving calculations 51s
- 15. Multiple sacrifices, Part 1 4m 43s
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- 16. Multiple sacrifices, Part 2 3m 22s
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- 17. The king in the center, Part 1 1m 37s
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- 18. The king in the center, Part 2 3m 29s
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- 19. Conclusion 20s
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- 1. Introduction 46s
- 2. Example 1 and an important tip! 3m 3s
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- 3. Example 2 - Attention! 2m 40s
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- 4. Example 3 - The angry coach 5m 10s
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- 5. Example 4 - The proud coach 4m 24s
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- 6. Example 5 - The key for avoiding painful blunders 3m 55s
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- 7. Example 6 - The game of the year 3m 45s
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- 8. Example 7 - Executing the tactical idea, not the move! 4m 41s
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- 9. Example 8 - The correct square 2m 54s
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- 10. Example 9 - A very tricky one 5m 59s
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- 11. Example 10 - Countering the counter-tactic 3m 17s
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- 12. Conclusion 45s
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- 1. Introduction 49s
- 2. Example 1 3m 4s
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- 3. Example 2 6m 7s
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- 4. Example 3 5m 9s
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- 5. Example 4 - Aronian's advice 2m 32s
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- 6. Example 5 2m 33s
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- 7. Example 6 5m 13s
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- 8. Example 7 6m 15s
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- 9. Example 8 7m 17s
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- 10. Example 9 5m 20s
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- 11. Example 10 5m 16s
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- 12. Conclusion 19s
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- 1. Congratulations 1m 18s
- 2. What's next? 59s
- 3. How to sharpen even more - Step 1 1m 21s
- 4. How to sharpen even more - Step 2 1m 6s
- 5. How to sharpen even more Step 3 1m 0s
- 6. Which one? 1m 15s
- 7. Mating patterns 28s
- 8. Example 1 2m 4s
- 9. Example 2 1m 27s
- 10. Example 3 1m 53s
- 11. If you're not Morphy 59s