Perfect Your Most Essential Attacking Skill
Since the invention of castling, chess players have pursued one goal with laser-like focus:
destroy it!And in this course, you’ll perfect your ability to raze the enemy fort -
in any configuration - till you can do it in your sleep.
International Master Dirk Sebastian and FM Martin Voigt bring you a comprehensive workbook for practicing this essential chess skill in the latest installment of his
Thematic Tactics series.
Examining all the common castling pawn structures one by one, you’ll not only develop your calculation and tactical skill, you’ll fine-tune your intuition for what attacks work and don’t work.
Here’s what you’ll get in the course:
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Focused exercises on each major castling setup. Learn what tactics are effective in the in-line formations (ex. pawns on f7-g7-h7) vs. others (ex. pawns on f7-g7-h6). And let’s not forget queenside castling setups!
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Practice on the art of sacrificing pieces. Move order is everything in a castling attack! Make sure your attack lands the final blow by getting the initial sacrifice right
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A guide to when the Greek Gift works and when it doesn’t. The classic Bxh7+ sacrifice requires a few conditions to work successfully - get a feel for when it’s right and when it’s a downright blunder
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Test chapters to bring it all together. After practicing theme by theme, you’ll apply everything you learned in 3 test chapters - easy, medium, and hard. IM Sebastian has made it more realistic by including
“red herring” exercises to make sure you’re analyzing properly!
These exercises come from a variety of
real games - pro and amateur - to give you the most practical training possible. As he has done in his other
Thematic Tactics courses, IM Sebastian and FM Martin Voigt have optimized the selection and order for maximum learning value and pattern recognition!
There’s no attacking skill more important than landing a checkmate attack on the enemy castle. Refine your attacking technique with
Thematic Tactics: Wrecking the Castle.
While you're at it, be sure to check out the other great tactics courses in the Thematic Tactics series.
