Beginner's Guide To Chess Tactics

MoveTrainer® Tactics course by FM Midas Ratsma (2531 Online Rating, 2318 peak FIDE) & by FM Mees van Osch

Tighten up your game - train these tactics

You know the rules and some basic tactics and have some wins under your belt. You might be beating all the casuals… but now you want to level up further.

This is the course for you.

Beginner's Guide to Chess Tactics gives you a structured program of exercises to gradually bulk up your chess muscles.

It's all about tactics - the most important learning block in the game.

The course gives you 600+ exercises with more than 100 informational lines - and these aren't tactics that you'll see in any old tactics book - all puzzles are original and new.

There are 27 chapters in this course covering the basics everyone should know as well as specific tactical ideas that are underexposed in chess literature.

Some of what you'll learn inside:

🌟Win your opponent's pieces by learning how to execute discovered attacks, pins, skewers, and eliminating defenders

🌟Make dazzling sacrifices that work - lure your opponent's pieces by setting decoys and learn how to give the "Greek Gift"”

🌟Learn defense mechanisms to create an impenetrable fortress - such as the concept of prophylaxis (anticipating your opponent's plans)

🌟Tactical motifs under-taught in other courses - the deadly Qg4-Nf5 Trick, attacking a castled King, and the X-ray blockade

Qg4-Nf5-Trick

After ...g6, you win with the deadly Nh6+!

Two FIDE Masters show you how they got to where they are

Not a single titled player got to the strength they're at without drilling these sorts of tactics.

Your authors FMs Midas Ratsma and Mees van Osch have mastered these sorts of exercises and now want to teach you, via slowly increasing the difficulty of the puzzles, how to master tactics yourself.

If you're serious about getting past the beginner level, do your tactics, and do them right.
These guys are experts in teaching you the tactical patterns you need to know.

Stop calling yourself a beginner and start playing your best chess with Beginner's Guide to Chess Tactics.

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Course stats

For: both pieces

Recommended for: Novice players Beginner players Intermediate players

Language: English

Instruction: 97,520 words

Paid video: 5 hours and 45 minutes

Free video: 50 minutes

Trainable variations: 606

Informational variations: 124

Avg. line depth: 3.01

Released on: May 19, 2023

Support level: High

Section: 🎓 Titled player

Beginner's Guide To Chess Tactics

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Variation Details

2 x Introduction (1.00 avg depth)

49 x 1) Double Attack (2.27 avg depth)

63 x 2) Pin (2.52 avg depth)

33 x 3) Skewer (2.76 avg depth)

56 x 4) Discovered Attack (2.43 avg depth)

41 x 5) Eliminating the Defense (2.51 avg depth)

52 x 6) Checkmate (2.33 avg depth)

23 x 7) Trapping (3.70 avg depth)

14 x 8) Underpromotion (2.50 avg depth)

15 x 9) Luring (2.93 avg depth)

19 x 10) Magnet (3.37 avg depth)

11 x 11) Semi-Smothered Mate (2.45 avg depth)

23 x 12) Clearing (2.83 avg depth)

20 x 13) Interfering (2.25 avg depth)

17 x 14) Targeting (2.88 avg depth)

16 x 15) Chasing (3.25 avg depth)

31 x 16) Intermediate Move (2.71 avg depth)

33 x 17) Pawn Endgame (4.39 avg depth)

18 x 18) Draw (3.39 avg depth)

13 x 19) The Deadly Qg4-Nf5 Trick (4.31 avg depth)

16 x 20) Attack the Castled King (3.44 avg depth)

21 x 21) X-ray (2.29 avg depth)

16 x 22) Seventh Rank (3.69 avg depth)

12 x 23) Open File (2.00 avg depth)

22 x 24) Pawn Structure (2.18 avg depth)

28 x 25) Outpost (3.86 avg depth)

14 x 26) Prophylaxis (3.07 avg depth)

15 x 27) Greek Gift (4.80 avg depth)

36 x Show Your Skills: Difficult Bonus Studies (5.67 avg depth)

1 x Definition Overview (1.00 avg depth)

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