Rating : 5/5 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 - BEST course on Checkmates you will find on Chessable! 💪😊👍😍😁😉
I was a beta tester who had the pleasure to go through many parts of this course. I got intrigued by the simplicity and the completeness of the course that I went on to study more than 70% (72% to be exact) of the course!😉😋
This course is a real GEM on Checkmates!😍
Just look at the Variation Details sidebar and quiz yourself with the Checkmates you know of? I, an FM, didn't know around 10 of them! (I learned 10 new checkmates!😍😁💪🙌👍)
My favourite Checkmate is the 'David & Goliath Checkmate'! It is like a pawn checkmate - pawn (underdog) checkmates the King (King!!) 😍
The course has an 'Indice' in which all the Mating Patterns/Puzzles have been neatly linked! Even the players' names mentioned in the course (from A-Z) have been linked to the corresponding puzzle! 😍😎👌
There is also a timeline which says 'Till what year was the player active?' - For example ; if it is Blackburne's Mate, the course says the following :
1841-1924 : Joseph Henry Blackburne - Blackburne's mate
This is done for all the players who contributed to the naming of that specific mate! 😍👏
All right, let's get down to CHECKMATES!
Before the beginning of puzzles in each chapter, there is an Informational which talks about the Mating Pattern and the corresponding position shows the Mate! This is done for all Mates/Chapters! Most of the times when there are different versions of the same mate, Raf clearly talks about this nuance in a different informational in the respective chapter hence the naming of the informational lines in the most of the chapters as, for example, Boden's Mate 1, Boden's Mate 2, etc. and the corresponding trainables present this type of mate mentioned.😊👌👏🙌
Above all of this, the course comes with 2 new badges!! 😍😍
All this for only 10$, available only on Chessable! 😊😃
After Raf finished creating all the puzzles, he could've just pushed that Publish button but he wanted the course to be top-top-notch so he went on to create 'Indices!' and stuff and he even proof-read the course multiple times👏. This shows his dedication as an author and how much respect he has for his students! Great job Raf!! 😃💪👍😍😊👏👏👌
Add this book to your Chessable Library and let us all Checkmate (our opponents) together with Raf!💪
