Structure of the course Kingscrusher presents hundreds of challenges in these tactics Bootcamp to help sharpen your tactical skills and help you find winning tactics and combinations in your real games when you play them with the clock pressures. The Bootcamp features two major sections - play to mate or play to win. Play to win maybe winning a piece in some cases but also does not exclude the possibility of mating the opponent. The first 100 of each section are relatively easier in general than the rest of the section to help you get some confidence and reassurance before getting into the really tough positions. No pain no gain! In this Bootcamp, it is advised to spend as much time as you can to really exercise your visualisation, calculation, and evaluation skills with the view of maximum accuracy as a priority. Revisit as required! Later when revisiting the exercises you can try and speed up your ability to find the solutions but try and maintain accuracy. Additionally, one should try and get as many valuable philosophical points and takeaways from each exercise as possible to give a better sense of intuition and direction when playing one's own chess games later. Core chess skills trained Visualisation Calculation Evaluation It should also be noted that a cynical and brutal winning perspective should be employed when using these skills in real games when there is pressure against the clock. For example, playing practical moves is often a requirement in real games until one really senses there is something there and then it becomes more justified to find a winning combination.

Hey there! This is Paul Carrero, I have been playing chess for the last 10 years, and a year ago I decided to start a youtube channel with the idea of listening to people’s thought processes while we played games online and correcting the flaws that they had when approaching the game. I have done this with people from 35+ countries, and in    this course you’ll find some of the most important realizations that I had through the year while spotting flaws in people’s minds. The moves that we play on the board are nothing but the result of our thought processes, if your thought process is disorganized, lacks structures and you are missing guidance, then your moves will reflect your incongruences and flaws. The moves are the effect, your thought process is the cause, nonetheless, everybody is making such gigantic emphasis on the moves and everybody is forgetting to talk about the most fundamental thing, your thought process. Roll in and change the perspective that you have of the game, spot your flaws and get a deeper comprehension of chess psychology now, its algorithms and its complexity.

The Damiano Defense is one of the oldest openings in Chess. It is also an opening that very few people are familiar with, which makes knowing how to play against it a huge advantage . In this course you will learn: 1. How to force checkmate against the Damiano Defense 2. How to win material by force 3. How to build up a successful attack on your opponent's king 4. How to take advantage of weaknesses in your opponent's position 5. How to get a good position out of the opening no matter what your opponent does Join the course, and learn HOW TO DESTROY THE DAMIANO DEFENSE!

This course is about rook endgames. At least 50% of all endings are rook endgames. If you know how to play, what plan to apply, you will increase your chances to win the game. This course consists of 6 sections. The first one is devoted to the Philidor and Lucena positions and in other I cover different motifs, which you can apply when you play rook endgame. These motifs are: Occupying the 7th rank Using an open file or rank How to play with or against passed pawns How to use rook activity How to use pawn weaknesses I designed this course for beginners and club players with FIDE rating from 1200 to 2000. But if you don’t have FIDE rating, this is not a problem and it shouldn’t stop you from taking this course. This course will also help you to improve your calculating skills . After finishing this course, you may become an expert at rook endings and win more games even if position is equal. With this course you also get: unlimited lifetime access at no extra costs all future additional lectures, game examples never any questions asked full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee Sincerely, Viktor

One of the main mistakes beginner-level students make is that when they are faced with threats, they panic, often causing them to make false assumptions and select sub-optimal moves. This training course is designed to improve thought process and calculation habits when responding to our opponent's threats. The course focuses on three general types of defense: reaction, prevention or prophylaxis, and counter attack. The author uses examples from his own tournament games to emphasize the importance of choosing defensive resources which are multipurpose and maximize the activity of the defender's pieces. There are many opportunities for the student to calculate and answer concrete tactical questions on their own throughout the course. The course is aimed at beginner-level players but can be useful for players in the 900-1500 rating range. The total run-time for the course is 83 minutes .

"Omg this was freakin amazing. Whoever you are who worked together to put this together, you have my immense gratitude. This is so perfect for what I needed right now to help me create a professional chess related app for iPad and iPhone. I have a modest amount of programming experience (just enough to get by for supporting my day job which is not as a programmer) and never heard of xcode before now. I'm amazed what a nice experience you designed for someone like me to even create something that looks like a chessboard on an iPhone in one video lesson. Thanks so much, I'm excited to continue on." ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chris Balcom, Modesto California Do you want to make apps? Do you want to learn to code? This course is for you! In this course you will learn how to make a Chess Game in iOS 10. This course requires you to have basic knowledge of Xcode and programming. If you are a complete beginner, this course isn't for you. This course is the result of a very successful Kickstarter! "I really enjoyed this course. I have no knowledge of chess game engines but this was a very good introduction to them. Keep 'em coming." One of the best features is that you can watch the courses at any speed you want. This means you can speed up the or slow down the video if you want to. This course is project based so you will not be learning a bunch of useless coding practices. At the end of this course you will have real world apps to use in your portfolio. We feel that project based training content is the best way to get from A to B. Taking this course means that you learn practical, employable skills immediately. You can use the projects you build in this course to add to your LinkedIn profile. Give your portfolio fuel to take your career to the next level. Learning how to code is a great way to jump in a new career or enhance your current career. Coding is the new math and learning how to code will propel you forward for any situation. Learn it today and get a head start for tomorrow. People who can master technology will rule the future. You will get full lifetime access to this course for a single one off fee. John Bura has created many games, apps and training courses so he is extremely qualified to teach you how to master technology. This is an instructor that does not only teach, he produces apps. This means you get the most relevant information on how to code. Most courses do not show you practical skills and real world examples. What makes you a good teacher? I have released over 40 games and apps that have done very well in the app store. I run a company called Mammoth Interactive so I am actively in the field building apps and making money I have been teaching since 2002 I personally love learning online and my life is much better because I have learned online rather than a classroom I am one of the top 10 highest grossing Udemy teachers I have been a Udemy instructor since 2011. I make sure people learn how to make money from their creations. I have over 150k students worldwide Who is this class for? People who want to improve their technical skills Complete beginners People who want to make money. I show people the tools on how to make money through various methods of passive income People who want to get ahead of the pack by learning online. How you will make money by learning new skills Learn practical skills Learn about how leverage your new skills to greater wealth Learn through practical examples Why should you learn online? There is an online education revolution taking place. You may have heard about it in the news or heard it from a friend. Either-way, education is going to be changed forever. In this short course I talk about how Online Education has Motivated me Helped my career Helped me as a teacher Impacted several lives around the planet I promise that this course will be better and more effective than reading books. I show how to master technology through the use of video. This course will give you everything you need to thrive in our technological society.

If you have never played the game, this is your chance to learn the basics of this royal game. After you complete the course you will be skilled enough to beat everyone around you and watch others in amazement as you deliver checkmate. GENIUS! They would scream. But it's just a couple of hours of fun learning. The benefits of chess transcend the game and will spill into other aspects of your life - Problem Solving skills, better memory, more focus, creativity, risk assessment, cognitive growth and we can go on and on.

Imagine you have come to a shop to purchase a mobile phone. The shopkeeper gives you a phone with 10 books on how it works and how to use it. The same process is followed in chess learning. There’s a huge difference between knowledge and skill. For example, you can read thousands of books about martial arts, but it doesn’t mean that you’ll become a great fighter. Apart from information, you need to train and acquire necessary practical skills. This is true just as much for chess. That is why, in these seminars, GM Smirnov provides you with a very small user’s manual that has several items you can follow, one by one, to understand chess clearly. Course Content: The seminar covers four major lectures with practical suggestion. In each lecture, GM Igor Smirnov answers all students' questions and provides additional tips to implement in their games. 1. Time to Win 2. Right thinking in chess 3. Smirnov Gambit 4. Art of Planning The course contains around 100 minutes of video lessons and a PDF summery for every seminar topic.

The course ‘Your top chess questions, Answered’ contains detailed answers to the questions posed by RCA students after reading the book A promoted pawn: my chess journey . The course is designed in such a way that even those who have not read the book can easily understand it. Apart from answering questions, GM Igor Smirnov explains how you can implement key ideas in your games, with hand-picked examples from top games. He also explains how he faced certain situations when he was at the beginner stage. Some of the key points you will learn in this course: 1. How to get maximum benefit when training with a computer? 2. What is the universal approach and how to utilize it in your game? 3. Opening skill development process 4. The very powerful technique to train your attacking and anti-blunder skills 5. How to progress in chess when you are an adult? 6. How to open the opponent’s position? 7. Psychological barriers in chess; how to overcome them? Lectures: The course contains eight video lessons and three text lessons . In each lesson, GM Igor Smirnov answers one question from an RCA student. The course also contains interesting examples, tips, and recommendations on various topics, which you can implement in your own games right after completing it.

If you want to become a strong player, it’s very important to know the strategy how to play with or against an isolated pawn. The importance of this topic is related to the fact that isolated pawn can arise from a huge number of openings: Queen’s Gambit, Queen’s Indian Defense, Nimzo-Indian Defense, French Defense, Caro-Kann Defense (Panov Attack) and even Sicilian Defense. This course covers all possible plans how to play the positions with an isolated pawn. There are 4 strategies how to play against isolated pawn: Obstruct enemy pieces Pass the game into the endgame Simplify the position Turn an isolated pawn into a pair And there are also 4 strategies for players who like to play with isolated pawn: Make a breakout Hold the enemy weak pawn Start the attack on the kingside Use c-file Every strategy is explained by example of real game between 2 grandmasters. And finally I prepared a quizz for you to practice at the end the course. With this course you also get: unlimited lifetime access at no extra costs all future additional lectures, game examples never any questions asked full 30 day money-back-in-full guarantee I look forward to seeing you in class! Sincerely, Viktor