From the author of the incredibly-popular Checkmate Patterns, a revolutionary new course that flips tactical training on its head.CraftyRaf blew the Chessable community away with his brilliant 5-star encyclopedia of essential mating motifs. Members and staff alike loved it.
Now he has returned with an ingenious idea suggested by one of the students of that course:
how to defend against those very same checkmate patterns.
Dazzling Defenses against Checkmate Patterns can be considered the exact opposite of its predecessor, teaching the key defensive skills you need to avoid the fatal mistakes that are the precursors to a deadly attack.
You don’t need to have mastered the Checkmate Patterns course to start with this one. But it will certainly help you to score better!
The author has handpicked 164 of the best motif puzzles in
Checkmate Patterns to see if you can recognize them and counter them from the other perspective.
THE KEY IDEA: Each motif is rolled back one move and flipped to the defender’s perspective. Your task is to make the move that avoids going into that fatal forced mate.For each puzzle, the mistake that was made in the original game is explained. Next, how you could prevent that Checkmate Pattern from happening while making the best possible move.
Can you see checkmate patterns coming?
The puzzles are divided over 4 puzzle chapters: 1 warm-up chapter and 3 exercises chapters.
The easiest puzzles are in the warm-up chapter and are especially interesting for intermediate and advanced players, but these can also serve for expert players as a warm-up.
The puzzles in the three exercises chapters may be too hard to find for intermediate players and they can be challenging for advanced players and even experts.
This is a tactics course like no other you have trained. Not only will it train your accuracy in defense, but it will also reinforce your recognition of attacking motifs.
Can you defend against the attacks you may already know? Even if you see an attack coming can you stop it? Learn how in
Dazzling Defenses against Checkmate Patterns.
