Rating 4.94 out of 5 (9 ratings in Udemy)
What you'll learn- Ability to leverage and amplify the important checkmating patterns for your own games
- Ability to construct mating nets - taking out key escape squares
- Ability to solve mate combination puzzles much better than before
- Ability to improve chess rating through ruthless checkmate combinations
- Ability to recognise key weakness of last move, support squares, liberational effects when calculating variations
- Ability to think of the key …
Rating 4.94 out of 5 (9 ratings in Udemy)
What you'll learn- Ability to leverage and amplify the important checkmating patterns for your own games
- Ability to construct mating nets - taking out key escape squares
- Ability to solve mate combination puzzles much better than before
- Ability to improve chess rating through ruthless checkmate combinations
- Ability to recognise key weakness of last move, support squares, liberational effects when calculating variations
- Ability to think of the key mating patterns concisely without necessarily worrying too much about remembering names
- Ability to have support remembering mating pattern names which does have advantage of looking up examples more easily
- Ability to have funny ways to remember the mate pattern names - and also "Name on Tin" methods especially
- Ability to amplify like never before mating patterns which may be heavily disguised in the position
- Ability to appreciate the great beauty of mating combinations played by players of all levels and times in chess history
- Ablity to make use of "amplification" as a key chess skill in general - on the same power level as calculation, evaluation, visualisation
- Ability to get a very low tolerance for sources of hassle or defensive resource - becoming skilled at removing them at source
- Ability to make use of amplification of mating patterns and their components to greatly simplify and ease calculation, visualisation, calculation pressure
DescriptionCheckmate is a game-ender.You can sacrifice potentially all your pieces except for example a Knight but deliver checkmate with thatKnight.Or even a pawn. As such checkmates creates great dynamic opportunities in Chess middlegames and encourages attacking and dynamic players to try and expose the opponent's King as far as possible to help enable checkmate attacks.
This course examines the patterns and processes which enable mating opportunities on the chessboard. There are various "art" forms covered in this course and artistic perspectives as well.
The basic art form of checkmates is to know the mating patterns that exist and can often be re-used or encourage deeper calculations. But other forms of checkmate often involving attracting the opponent's King out of his shelter and sometimes down the entire chess board creating an artistic effect in it's own right. Sometimes the opponent's king is simply attracted a little bit down the board and his reverse options to safety are prevented. Brining the opponent's King even just a little bit to our own resources creates an artistic effect of seeming effortless and reinforces the importance of King safety independent of the opponent potentially sacrificing many pieces. The King is a sensitive piece especially in the Opening and middlegame but can of course be freer in general to come out to play and be useful in endgames. Even in endgames though, dangers of being mated need to be factored in continually, and may be part of the necessary way of winning certain endgames.
