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- 1. How it is played 3m 44s
- 2. Meet the chessboard 1m 5s
- 3. Square names 3m 48s
- 4. Meet the Rook 4m 43s
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Capture the pieces with your Rook
- 5. Meet the Bishop 3m 11s
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Capture the pieces with your Bishops
- 6. Meet the Queen 2m 32s
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Capture the pieces with your Queen
- 7. Meet the King 4m 56s
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Capture the pieces with your King
- 8. Meet the Knight 4m 50s
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Capture the pieces with your Knight
- 9. Meet the pawn 4m 23s
- 10. Pawn capturing 4m 37s
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Capture the opponent’s pieces with a Pawn
- 11. En Passant 7m 24s
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Capture with En Passant
- 12. Pawn recap 1m 33s
- 13. What is check? 2m 22s
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Check with a Rook
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Check with a Bishop
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Check with a Queen
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Check with a Knight
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Check with a Pawn
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Find a check
- 14. Three ways to defend against checks 4m 35s
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Defend with capturing
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Defend with blocking
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Defend with running
- 15. Super checks 3m 43s
- 16. What is checkmate? 12m 14s
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Test Checkmate in one move
- 17. Resignation 1m 10s
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- 18. Chess clock 1m 48s
- 19. The MMA Method - The 4th way to win a game 1m 9s
- 20. Losing 53s
- 21. The 3rd result - Draw 36s
- 22. Stalemate 10m 1s
- 23. Threefold repetition & Perpetual check 1m 37s
- 24. Insufficient mating material 3m 32s
- 25. Draw agreement 57s
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- 26. The fifty-move rule 3m 8s
- 27. Draw recap 25s
- 28. Castling: Happy King, happier Rook 10m 38s
- 29. The currency on the chessboard: Value of the pieces 5m 12s
- 30. Good luck! 1m 1s
- Slide - A few easy rules
- Slide - En Passant
- Slide - 3 defense ways
- Slide - Types of draw
- Slide - 7 situations when you can't castle
- Slide - Relative value of pieces
- 1. Let's go! 24s
- 2. Lichess.org 11m 46s
- 3. Our 1st game 23m 11s
- 4. The rematch 14m 58s
- 5. Chess.com 3m 14s
- 6. What time control to pick? 1m 48s
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- 7. Hit the brake in time 46s
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- 8. The rating and the shadow 2m 11s
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- 9. Fun + Growth 45s
- 10. Take it easy 49s
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- 11. Playing on a physical board 21s
- 12. Board setup 4m 58s
- 13. Chess clock 1m 56s
- 14. The touch rule 2m 28s
- 15. Draw offer 2m 13s
- 16. Winning and Losing 1m 17s
- 17. Good luck 42s
- 1. Tiger & Mouse 2m 41s
- 2. Principle #1 4m 29s
- 3. Principle #2 7m 15s
- 4. Principle #3 1m 46s
- 5. Power tips: Pawns 5m 29s
- 6. Don’t make this move! 3m 22s
- 7. Power tips: Knights 2m 18s
- 8. Power tips: Bishops 6m 38s
- 9. Power tips: Rooks 4m 43s
- 10. Power tips: The Queen 7m 41s
- 11. The 3 Effective setups 5m 14s
- 12. Opening philosophies 9m 34s
- 13. Gambits 7m 13s
- 14. You did it! 2m 3s
- Slide - 3 main opening principles
- 1. Fire on the board 1m 20s
- 2. 1.e4! 1m 1s
- 3. 1…e5: The Danish Gambit! 4m 3s
- 4. 1…c5: Smith-Morra Gambit 1m 57s
- 5. 1…d5 & Why is it bad? 1m 37s
- 6. 1…e6: French 1m 37s
- 7. 1…c6: Caro-Kann 56s
- 8. Knight moves 1m 10s
- 9. Sounds good? :) 20s
- 10. Playing with Black 51s
- 11. Vs. 1.e4: Scandinavian Gambit 2m 14s
- 12. Vs. 1.d4: En-Passant Gambit! 6m 55s
- 13. Good Luck! 1m 22s
- 1. Welcome to the gym 4m 6s
- 2. Capturing 5m 29s
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Capturing with a Rook
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Capturing with a Bishop
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Capturing with a Queen
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Capturing with a Knight
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Capturing with a Pawn
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Capturing with a King
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Mix: Level 1
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Mix: Level 2
- 3. Capturing the unprotected piece 1m 51s
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your Rook
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your Bishop
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your Queen
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your Knight
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your Pawn
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Capturing the unprotected piece with your King
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Mix: Level 1
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Mix: Level 2
- 4. Capturing the greater gain 2m 51s
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Level 1
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Level 2
- 5. Capturing with force 3m 20s
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Training
- 6. Checking 2m 13s
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Checking with your Rook
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Checking with your Bishop
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Checking with your Queen
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Checking with your Knight
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Checking with your Pawn
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Mix: Level 1
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Mix: Level 2
- 7. Check and win 3m 33s
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Check and win: Level 1
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Check and win: Level 2
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Check and win: Level 3
- 8. Creating threats 3m 54s
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Attack the Queen
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Attack the Rook
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Attack the Bishop
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Attack the Knight
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Attack the Pawn
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Mix
- 9. Facing threats 7m 34s
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Capture for free
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Protect the piece
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Block
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Move the pieces
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Counterattack
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Pin
- 10. Are you pumped? 1m 33s
- Slide - 6 ways to face threats
- 1. What’s then? 1m 18s
- 2. Mating with two Queens - Staircase method 6m 11s
- 3. Mating with Queen & Rook - Staircase method 4m 15s
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- 4. Mating with two Rooks - Staircase method 3m 1s
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- 5. The Cowboy method 3m 40s
- 6. Mating with a Queen - Boxing method 8m 7s
- 7. Mating with a Rook - Boxing method 7m 53s
- 8. Can we mate with minor pieces? 3m 33s
- 9. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 1 1m 20s
- 10. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 2 2m 42s
- 11. Mating with lots of pieces - Tip 3 1m 5s
- 12. Ole, ole, oleeee!!! 1m 18s
- 1. Introduction 2m 10s
- 2. Tactic & Strategy 36s
- 3. Pin 1m 3s
- 4. The types of Pins 4m 30s
- 5. What are the pieces that can pin? 1m 52s
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Pin with a Bishop
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Pin with a Rook
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Pin with a Queen
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Level 1
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Level 2
- 6. Pin and win 2m 49s
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Training
- 7. Pin and ruin 1m 30s
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Training
- 8. Mate with a Pin 3m 16s
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Mate with a Pin
- 9. Win with a Pin 2m 45s
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Training
- 10. Four ways to get out of a Pin 3m 54s
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Training
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Training
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Training
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Training
- 11. Good job! 40s
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- 12. Skewer 51s
- 13. Two types of Skewers 1m 31s
- 14. Who can skewer? 1m 18s
- 15. Barbecue time 55s
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Skewer with a Queen
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Skewer with a Bishop
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Skewer with a Rook
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Level 1
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Level 2
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Mix
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- 16. Fork 1m 8s
- 17. The types of Forks 2m 46s
- 18. Who can fork? 1m 37s
- 19. Fork time! 2m 5s
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Fork with a Knight
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Fork with a Pawn
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Fork with a Bishop
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Fork with a Rook
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Fork with a Queen
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Fork with a King
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Mix
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Fork and Pin with a Knight
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Fork and Pin with a Pawn
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- 20. The three beginner tactics 52s
- 21. Annihilation 4m 9s
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Quiz
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Training
- 22. Deflection 2m 3s
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Quiz
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Training
- 23. Distraction 1m 56s
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Quiz
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Training
- 24. Discovered check 2m 36s
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Quiz
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Training
- 25. Double check 3m 44s
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Quiz
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Training
- 26. Windmill 2m 32s
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Quiz
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Training
- 27. Discovered attack 3m 13s
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Quiz
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Discovered attack with a check
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Discovered attack without a check
- 28. Double attack 1m 13s
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Quiz
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Training
- 29. X-Ray 1m 58s
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Quiz
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Training
- 30. Clearance 2m 38s
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Quiz
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Training
- 31. Decoy 2m 18s
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Quiz
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Training
- 32. Congrats, my Ninjas! 1m 23s
- 1. Time for Mushrooms? 1m 58s
- 2. PART 1. King in the center 29s
- 3. Achilles' heel 7m 39s
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Scholar's Mate
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Queen + Knight
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Queen + Pawn
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Rook +Queen
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Bishop + Knight
- 4. Fool mate diagonal 8m 30s
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Fool mate - 1
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Fool mate - 2
- 5. Opera mate 6m 57s
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Opera mate - 1
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Opera mate - 2
- 6. Smothered mate 5m 47s
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Smothered mate
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King in the center - MIX
- 7. PART 2. Short-castled King 32s
- 8. Backrank mate 1m 36s
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Back rank - 1
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Back rank - 2
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Back rank - 3
- 9. Kiss of death 1m 2s
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Training
- 10. Cheek kiss mate 4m 3s
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Trainings 1
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Trainings 2
- 11. Battery 2m 59s
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Building battery
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Building battery + tactic
- 12. Heavy battery 3m 59s
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Training
- 13. Invasion mate 5m 4s
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Trainings 1
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Trainings 2
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Short-castled King -MIX
- 14. PART 3. Long-castled King 19s
- 15. No Backrank mate? 35s
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Training
- 16. Mayet’s mate 40s
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Training
- 17. Jab - Right Hook Mate 2m 1s
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Training
- 18. Kiss of death 46s
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Training
- 19. Cheek kiss mate 40s
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Training
- 20. Rook mate 1m 57s
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Training
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Long-castled King - MIX
- 21. Mating Matador 1m 58s
- 1. Round Three! 57s
- 2. Mate in ONE 2m 10s
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With a Queen
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With a Rook
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With a Bishop
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With a Knight
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With a Pawn
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With a King
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Level 1
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Level 2
- 3. Mate in TWO with checks 2m 51s
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Queen + Rook
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Queen + Bishop
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Queen + Knight
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Queen + Pawn
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Rook + Rook
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Rook + Bishop
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Rook + Knight
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Knight + Bishop
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Level 1
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Level 2
- 4. Mate in TWO with quiet moves 1m 48s
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Choking
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Calling for help
- 5. Mate in TWO with teamwork 25s
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Queen + Rook
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Queen + Bishop
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Queen + Knight
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Queen + Pawn
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Rook + Rook
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Rook + Bishop
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Rook + Knight
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Level 1
- 6. Mate in TWO with tactics 1m 25s
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Pin
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X-Ray
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Distraction
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Annihilation
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Deflection
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Double check
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Decoy
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Discovered check
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Clearance
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Mix
- 7. Pumped? 33s
- 1. Who is Calclman? 1m 7s
- 2. “Forcing Moves” method 4m 40s
- 3. “Forcing Moves” in practice 6m 24s
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Training
- 4. “Better Move” method 1m 51s
- 5. “Better Move” in practice 5m 40s
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Training
- 6. “Piece Scan” method 2m 3s
- 7. “Piece Scan” in practice 4m 39s
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Training
- 8. “Three Second” method 1m 41s
- 9. “Three Second” in practice 6m 18s
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Training
- 10. “Detective” method 1m 7s
- 11. “Detective” in practice 6m 19s
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Training
- 12. Congrats! 1m 49s
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Training
- Slide - The 5 Methods
- 1. Welcome to battlefield! 48s
- 2. Attack - Bring the pieces 4m 7s
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Training
- 3. Defense - Bring the pieces 3m 55s
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Training
- 4. Attack - Expose 6m 34s
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King in the center
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King is castled - 1
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King is castled - 2
- 5. Defense - Keep closed 4m 21s
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King in the center
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King is castled
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Training
- 6. Attack - Avoid trades 9m 22s
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Avoid trades
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Trade key defenders
- 7. Defense - Trade 4m 31s
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Trade key attackers
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Keep key defenders
- 8. Attack - Sacrifice 3m 32s
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Training
- 9. Defense - Don’t panic 4m 39s
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Training 1
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Training 2
- 10. Attack - Guard your King 4m 37s
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Training
- 11. Defense - Counterattack 2m 46s
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Training
- 12. Good luck! 2m 21s
- Slide - Combat zone
- 1. The crying pawns 3m 4s
- 2. What is a weak pawn? 1m 39s
- 3. Pawn islands 5m 3s
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Training
- 4. Isolated pawn 1m 11s
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Training
- 5. Backward pawn 6m 12s
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Training
- 6. Doubled pawns 6m 57s
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Training
- 7. Weak pawns examples in Champions’ gambits 2m 58s
- 8. Avoid weaknesses 3m 39s
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Training
- 9. The hunter 5m 35s
- 10. Congrats! 56s
- 1. Happy pieces - Happy game! 1m 29s
- 2. Happy Bishop 18m 42s
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Unlock the Bishop
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Centralize the Bishop
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Use in attack
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Use in defense
- 3. Happy Knight 21m 59s
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Take the Knight to its dream position
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Attack with the Knight
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Defend with Knight
- 4. Happy Rook 26m 38s
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Realize rook’s no. 1 dream
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Attack from backrank
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Win pawns
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Use the 7th rank
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Attack with the Rooks
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Defend with the Rooks
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Tactics with the Rook
- 5. Happy Queen 19m 42s
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Attack with the Queen
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Chase unprotected pieces
- 6. Happy King 5m 56s
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Don’t expose your King
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Shield your King with pieces
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Attack with your King
- 7. Happy student - Happy coach 52s
- Slide - Bishop
- Slide - Knight
- Slide - Rook
- Slide - Queen
- Slide - King
- 1. Oh, these pawns… 1m 12s
- 2. Sad pawns 1m 32s
- 3. Happy pawns 14m 12s
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Attack the opponent’s pieces
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Breakthrough
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Protect your pieces
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Limit the opponent’s pieces
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Stop opponent’s pawns
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Protect squares and territory
- 4. Pawn’s main dream - What, When, Why 7m 11s
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Realize your pawn’s dream
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Create a passed pawn
- 5. The two words to keep in mind 3m 41s
- 6. Tips for pawn play 3m 13s
- 7. Ole, ole, ole!!! 48s
- Slide - Pawn
- Slide - Promotion
- Slide - Tips