Tactic Ninja - Sharpen Your Tactical Arsenal with a Grandmaster

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383 EPISODES (19h 26m)

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GM Avetik Grigoryan

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I’ll tell you something unbelievable and funny. Our editor Lily, being 1,200 on chess.com, raised her online rating by 100 points in 2 weeks, just by looking through the videos of this course when she was editing them. How many rating points will you raise? :)

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.

I don’t like promises. But this time…

If you watch the videos carefully and follow the instructions, you’ll notice how your tactical vision becomes sharper after each section.

And by the end, you'll become a true Tactic Ninja, who's alert to tactics and swift to strike.

In the introduction, I’ll give you instructions on how to work with the course so that you maximize the quality of your training and raise your rating.

Then I’ll show you 20 tactical motifs, section-by-section, so that you’re fully aware of all of them. These include examples on pins, skewers, forks, windmills, decoys among others.

And in the last sections, I'll share a simple technique to notice tactics in a real game.

Everything… step-by-step.

Below are the positions from the course:

Tactic Ninja

Soon you’ll be pleasantly surprised with how much better you start to see the chessboard and how many opportunities you notice while playing.

Wishing you all the best, and I can’t wait to see your success stories and reviews for this tactics course.

With best wishes,
GM Avetik

P.S. This course is perfect for 800-2200 players.

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.
The advice of a modern-day chess legend on noticing resources in a position.
How to notice hidden tactics and more.

Lesson Plan 383 episode(s)

Course overview

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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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3. Killer Pin

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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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8. Double Pin

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9. Cross Pin

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10. Situational Pin

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11. Do you mind if I test you?

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12. Summary

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1. Introduction

2. What is Skewer

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3. Absolute and Relative Skewers

4. Examples with Skewer

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5. Pin + Skewer

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6. Tactics with Skewer

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7. A Challenging Puzzle

8. Test

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9. Summary

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1. Introduction

2. Types of Forks

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3. Absolute Fork vs Relative Fork

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4. Triple Fork

5. Unstoppable Fork

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6. Fork Delivery

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7. Before going to other pieces

8. Unbelievable Move

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9. Pawn Fork

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10. Pin + Fork

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11. Fork with a Tempo

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12. Absolute Fork with Queen

13. Relative Fork with Queen

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14. Rook Fork

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15. Bishop Fork

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16. King Fork

17. Ready?

18. Tactics with Fork

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19. I hope you don't mind

20. Test

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21. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

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2. Removing the Mate Defender

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3. Removing the Piece Defender

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4. Removing the Square Defender

5. Before we continue

6. The Upcoming Defender

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7. Removing the Important Piece

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8. What we've learned so far

9. Before we Continue

10. Are you ready?

11. Test

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12. Conclusion

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1. What is Deflection

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2. What you'll learn

3. Deflecting the Mate Defender

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4. Deflecting the Piece Defender

5. Deflecting the Square Defender

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6. Deflecting the Important Piece

7. Deflection in the Endgames

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8. Are you ready?

9. Tactics with Deflection

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10. Test

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11. Summary

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1. Introduction

2. What is Distraction

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3. Distracting the Piece Defender

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4. Distracting the Mate Defender

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5. What is Overloading

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6. How to notice such tactics

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7. The 3rd Motive

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8. How to Exploit the Overloaded Piece

9. Tactic 1

10. Tactic 2

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11. Tactic 3

12. Tactic 4

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13. Tactic 5

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14. Test Time

15. Test

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16. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. Winning Material

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3. Mate is Coming!

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4. Delivery

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5. Setting up a Discovered Check

6. Removing the Obstacles

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7. Types of Discovered Checks

8. Tactics with Discovered Check

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9. Let's go!

10. Test

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11. This is not the end

12. Discovered Checks in the Opening

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1. Introduction

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

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

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4. Falling in Love

5. Double Check + Mate

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6. Winning Material

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7. Cold or Hot?

8. Tactics with Double Check

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9. Testing you, Testing me...

10. Test

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11. Checkmate in the Opening

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12. Congratulations

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1. Introduction

2. What is Windmill

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

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4. The Rook Supports the Bishop

5. Bishop + Knight

6. Windmill + Mate

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7. Windmill + Draw

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8. Tactics

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9. Test

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10. It was cool, wasn't it?

1. Introduction

2. What is Discovered Attack

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3. Why Many Chessplayers Get Confused

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4. Winning Material with Relative Discovered Attack

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5. Winning Material with Absolute Discovered Attack

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6. Opening Traps

7. Common Blunders on Long Diagonals

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8. How to Set up a Discovered Attack

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9. Removing the Obstacles

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10. Let's Go!

11. Tactics

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12. Test

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13. Congratulations

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1. What is Double Attack

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2. Discovered Attack and Mate

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3. Mate or Piece

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4. Double Threats

5. The nightmare puzzle of my childhood!

6. Let's go!

7. Tactics

8. NN - Morphy P.

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9. Suetin A. - Sherbakov R.

10. Maric R. - Gligoric S.

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

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12. Test

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13. Let's move on!

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1. Introduction

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2. Decoy and Discovered Check

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3. Decoy and Discovered Attack

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4. Decoy and Pin

5. Decoy and Skewer

6. Decoy and Fork

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7. Decoy and Mate

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8. Decoy in the Openings

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9. Are you ready?

10. Petrosian's famous combination

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11. Tactics

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12. One more trick

13. C'mon - Example 1

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14. C'mon - Example 2

15. C'mon - Example 3

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16. C'mon - Example 4

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

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

19. We're almost done

20. Test

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21. Conclusion

1. What is X-Ray?

2. Mate with X-Ray

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3. X-Ray and Back rank mate

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4. Winning material with X-Ray

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5. It's tactics time!

6. Tactics - Part 1

7. Tactics - Part 2

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8. Tactics - Part 3

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

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10. It's test time!

11. Test

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12. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. Powerful checks

3. Desperado

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4. Run and mate

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5. Run and win

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6. A blunder on move 6!

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7. Fianchetto Bishop

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8. A typical blunder in Sicilians

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9. Intermediate moves in Pirc Defense

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10. It's tactics time!

11. Tactics 1

12. Tactics 2

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

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14. Tactics 4

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15. Tactics 5

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16. Tactics 6

17. Tactics 7

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18. Tactics 8

19. Tactics 9

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20. Tactics 10

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21. It's test time!

22. Test

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23. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. Lifeline - Saving a piece

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3. Counter-Threats for saving material

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4. Using the King

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5. Dealing with pins

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6. Why run away if we can attack?!

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

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8. Tactic 2

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

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10. Tactic 4

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11. Tactic 5

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12. Test time!

13. Test

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14. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. What is interference?

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3. Tactics with interference

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4. Interference and back rank

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5. Challenge 1

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6. Challenge 2

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7. Challenge 3

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8. Challenge 4

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9. I hope you don't mind :)

10. Test

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11. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. Fischer R. - Benko P. 1963

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3. Blocking the pawns

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4. Blocking the escape

5. When do we use Blocking?

6. Tactics

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7. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. What's that?

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3. Bombardinio 1

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

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

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6. Bombardinio 4

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

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8. Bombardinio 6

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9. Before the test

10. Test

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11. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. What is Clearance?

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3. Clearing the square for mating

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4. Clearing the square for winning material

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5. Clearing a diagonal

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6. Clearing a file

7. Clearing a rank

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8. Tactic time!

9. Tactic 1

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10. Tactic 2

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11. Tactic 3

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12. Tactic 4

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13. Tactic 5

14. Tactic 6

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15. Tactic 7

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16. Test time!

17. Test

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18. Conclusion

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1. Introduction

2. Annihilation

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3. Deflection

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4. Clearance

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5. Interference

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6. Blocking

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7. Decoy

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8. The 6 tactical motives

9. Tactics in the endgame

10. Challenge 1

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11. Challenge 2

12. What about middlegame?

13. Unstoppable pawns in the middlegame

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14. The winning pawn

15. A trap in Semi-Slav

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16. My favourite trap

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17. Mating with promotion

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18. Are you ready?

19. Test

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20. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Underpromotion with a check

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3. When do we need a Rook?

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4. Selesniev's Puzzle

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5. Feijter's Puzzle

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6. When do we need a Bishop?

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7. Troitzky's Puzzle

8. Hek's Puzzle

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9. Pogosiants' Puzzle

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10. Practical puzzles

11. Tactics - Part 1

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12. Tactics - Part 2

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13. Tactics - Part 3

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14. Before the test

15. A tricky test

16. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Greek gift on h7, Part 1

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3. Greek gift on h7, Part 2

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4. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 1

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5. A typical sacrifice on g7, Part 2

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6. Removing g and h pawns, Part 1

7. Removing g and h pawns, Part 2

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8. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 1

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9. A typical sacrifice on f7, Part 2

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10. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 1

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11. A typical sacrifice on h6, Part 2

12. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 1

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13. A typical sacrifice on g6, Part 2

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14. Improving calculations

15. Multiple sacrifices, Part 1

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16. Multiple sacrifices, Part 2

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17. The king in the center, Part 1

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18. The king in the center, Part 2

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19. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Example 1 and an important tip!

3. Example 2 - Attention!

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4. Example 3 - The angry coach

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5. Example 4 - The proud coach

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6. Example 5 - The key for avoiding painful blunders

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7. Example 6 - The game of the year

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

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9. Example 8 - The correct square

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10. Example 9 - A very tricky one

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11. Example 10 - Countering the counter-tactic

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12. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. The three key questions

3. Example 1

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4. Example 2

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5. Example 3

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6. Example 4

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7. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Example 1

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3. Example 2

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4. Example 3

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5. Example 4

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6. Example 5

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7. Example 6

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8. Example 7

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9. Example 8

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10. Example 9

11. Example 10

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12. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Example 1

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3. Example 2

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4. Example 3

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5. Example 4

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6. Example 5

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7. Example 6

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8. Example 7

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9. Example 8

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10. Example 9

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11. Example 10

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12. Conclusion

1. Introduction

2. Example 1

3. Example 2

4. Example 3

5. Example 4 - Aronian's advice

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6. Example 5

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7. Example 6

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8. Example 7

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9. Example 8

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10. Example 9

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11. Example 10

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12. Conclusion

1. Congratulations

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2. What's next?

3. How to sharpen even more - Step 1

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4. How to sharpen even more - Step 2

5. How to sharpen even more Step 3

6. Which one?

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7. Mating patterns

8. Example 1

9. Example 2

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10. Example 3

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11. If you're not Morphy

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