Refine Your Creative Chess Thinking
And Find The Hidden Win
This collection of self mates takes you just beyond your comfort zone, and adds a creative twist to your decision making. One which will help you anticipate the opponent’s plans… build tighter mating nets… and play stronger chess!Your instructor for this course is
Maurizio Matteoli.
He’s an online chess expert with a 2100 rating and a penchant for tactics. As a coach, he helped a student win the U16 Regional Championship… and the Open Regional Championship a year later, which propelled him to the Italian top 100.
But more importantly, in his first course, Matteoli shows you one of his favorite training methods to…
Improve Your Creative Problem-Solving
And Eye For Checkmates
Self Mates: Unique Chess Studies challenges your ability to innovate and zero-in on the checkmating combo hidden in the position.
It does so by serving you a collection of
95 composed studies.
These are “man-made” positions which have been tweaked to satisfy specific solving conditions. The result is an intense training course — full of complicated positions — which strike a contrast against the “pedestrian” tactics in classic books.
In self mates, everything plays out according to the rules of chess, except for the objective which is…
To discover how White, moving first, can
force Black to deliver mate!
Black will try all sorts of tricks to avoid it. And you must find that
one key move which neutralizes every possible defense. By setting up the exercises this way, you can’t help but:
💎 Look at the board from the opponent’s point of view, and improve your prophylactic thinking. It’s a valuable skill which will help you sniff out threats before they become serious.
💎 Calculate down to quiescence… which keeps your analysis “straight and true.” Self mate or not, precision calculation will help you win games.
💎 And… expand your arsenal of mating patterns. Which is always welcome because, hey, checkmate ends the game!
If you want to diversify your chess training — and hit those improvement areas overlooked by most books — then join us inside this unique checkmate course.
