Tactic Ninja – Sharpen Your Chess Tactics with a Grandmaster

Be able to appreciate the fundamentals of chess – opening, middlegame, endgame and within those the most common and important ideas

Be able to get a complete overview of the key fundamentals of chess in terms of the Opening, Middlegame and Endgame phases of the game

Be able to know basic opening traps such as the Fool’s mate, Scholar’s mate and many others

Be able to know basic endgame mating patterns such as two rooks vs King, Rook vs King, Queen vs King

Be able to know basic middlegame mating patterns such as back row mate and Smothered mate

Be able to see Chess is a way of maximising your value chain – opening, middlegame, endgame and other skills like psychology, maximising win probability

Be able to know the basic pawn structures which often result from many different openings such as the Isolated Queen’s Pawn, Doubled pawns, Hanging Pawns

Be able to know about the major world chess champions and their value-chain strengths such as Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, Fischer, Karpov, Kasparov

Be able to understand many of the chess terms, and games and puzzles in Netflix Queen’s Gambit popular series in a detailed episode by episode manner

Be able to know how to handle the basic opening traps of Chess and how to set them up for unsuspecting opponents such as an early Queen to h5 attack

Be able to appreciate the most important fundamentals of Kingscrusher’s more advanced courses and be able to advance onto them later like a jigsaw puzzle

Be able to appreciate the rules of chess for both casual play and later tournament play so you don’t risk losing games uncessarily

Be able to see plenty of examples of the most important chess tactics which will win you many games and enable you to see the true beauty of chess

Be able to use Opening Systems which can be largely independent of what the opponent does such as the London System, Torre Attack, Colle System

Be able to know the basic ideas and plans of major Chess openings susch as the French Defence, Sicilian Defence, Nimzo Indian, King’s Indian, Slav Defence

Be able to make use of fun exciting chess gambits which can help stretch and train your tactical abilities such as the King’s Gambit

Be able to make use of key middlegame tactics such as forking, skewering, double attacks, discovered attacks, removing the defender, deflections and more

Be able to leverage essential endgame concepts and positions such as “Rule of the Square”, Triangulation, the Vancura Defence, the Lucena position and others

Be able to appreciate strong middlegame processes which prioritise forcing moves and enable you to calculate potentially many moves ahead

Be able to leverage many important crystalised improving tips and winning tips gained from years of experience of Kingscrusher

Be able to appreciate the instructive value and importance and humour of many famous chess quotations from masters of the past in their thoughts