Improving this essential micro-skill can lead to big rating gains...Visualise chess positions two, three, or even four moves ahead - with 20/20 clarity!
When strong players talk about calculation, candidate move selection or mental shortcuts like deduction often take the center stage.
But here's what most strong players skip, which us developing players must be aware of:
How well you can calculate and apply these expert methods rest, in no small part, in your ability to visualise positions.
If you can visualise positions with total clarity, your calculations become more accurate. And when you accurately calculate, you make better decisions. Make enough better decisions than your opponent, and the full point is YOURS!
In this course, the fifth in
Benedictine's much-loved
Visualise series, your visualisation skills get an upgrade using a unique training workflow and 100 handpicked positions.
Visualise BETTER with four World Chess Champions
Here's how this course works:
First, you get a position to hold in your head. Next, you must follow the on-screen moves, playing them but only in
your mind's eye. Your task, once you reach the end of the line in your visualisation, is to find the winning tactic.
Benedictine's
Visualise courses are the first Chessable series to use this framework. One that trains the same mental "muscles" you use to look ahead and calculate.
Visualise 5 packs
100 training positions taken from the games of four world champions:
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A. Alekhine: 5x2 moves ahead, 10x3 moves ahead, 10x4 moves ahead
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J.R. Capablanca: 5x2 moves ahead, 10x3 moves ahead, 10x4 moves ahead
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G. Kasparov: 5x2 moves ahead, 10x3 moves ahead, 10x4 moves ahead
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V. Anand: 5x2 moves ahead, 10x3 moves ahead, 10x4 moves ahead
Train these positions the
Visualise way, and you can't help but improve not just your calculation skills...but your overall game, too.
Even better, however, the exercises in this course also
double as spaced-rep drills - building your pattern recognition for winning tactics.
Train your visualisation skills today
Looking ahead is something we chess players do. Every. Single. Game.
It's a bread-and-butter skill. Master visualisation and, not only will your performance improve, but adding more sophisticated techniques to your game becomes much easier.
So set yourself up for success today. Get Visualise 5 and start training!P.S.: Get the rest of the
Visualise series and perfect the art of visualisation!
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