Hi all. I'm delighted to share with you today a peek inside of Kingscrusher's
tactic snacks 1. So first edition this is a new course at Chessable which can help
you train your tactics your pattern recognition. So these are good questions
to ask before considering this course. Do you like checkmate puzzles? So all of
them end in checkmate. Do you like playing faster time controls? So these
are not particularly deep but if you do play on the fast time controls they're
quite important patterns especially for those arena style tournaments where you
get as many games as you can play so you want to be able to beat opponents
quickly. And I found you know these are great patterns in these puzzles
accumulated from thousands of thousands of games distilled down to this set of
puzzles for this particular book so a lot of very interesting patterns you can
use at faster time controls for the quick knockouts in particular. So yes
I've been crushing the competition quite well in in recent years you can check
out my track records so sometimes you want to study hard and sometimes you
want to snack on tactics. So they are quite easy a lot of them. So especially
if you're under 1800 you might like it. If you're over a certain
strength maybe you you could have it in a sort of speed training mode just to
make sure you can pick them up very quickly. But it's really targeted at
beginner and intermediate level this book. This course rather - interactive course book.
So 250 of them each is engine checked from the winning perspective. Sometimes
there are blunders from the opponent which let them be you know checkmated a bit
more easily. So each puzzle is from a real game and you can see the real game
context so if you want to get into those positions there are very good clues for
the opening systems I use which are kind of novel sometimes like 1.b3 (nimzo-larsen attack system) with white.
Some light annotation and analysis and suitable for improving
players. And fun - the key thing so that's the key thing here. So some puzzles ask you
to punish a blunder with a quick blow. Others contain classical mating patterns
such as Boden's mate. Legal's mate. So it's a heavy fun factor and great learning
experience. And okay so if you train from this course then these patterns will become second nature
and you will spot many wins that you couldn't see before. At the same time
you will become much more aware of the one move threats to the opponents set up for you. So
training these classical checkmating patterns are vital for any player to
survive in the arena's of online chess at the moment. And even the top-level
tournaments as we see they're introducing faster time controls (e.g Norway Chess 2019) so
you've got to be very good on your pattern recognition and calculation. Fast
calculation. Let's have a look to the structure. Five chapters. On each there's
quite a good helping on each chapter. So if we just pick on one or two so here so
black to play here. It was looking scary but with forcing moves here you can
actually deliver checkmate with check and then that kind of thorn pawn for the
win helps. That pawn there. Okay so that was a fun one. So they're all
ending in checkmate. You can see how the game arises so you can study my
openings as well so the Tango - a surprise weapon as black and I also prepare a
kind of surprise weapon weapon as white. So you can get an insight into a very
very aggressive repertoire surprise repertoire which also adds to the shock
factor of playing at these faster time controls. So let's have a look at this
one. White to play here. Now here is a kind of weakness of the last move. So in fact if
you pounce on weaknesses of the last move Knight takes e6 and in fact the
opponent missed the threat. So they didn't play the perfect defense there. And they
allow the checkmate there. It's engine checked as I say from the winning
perspective. You can see how this arrived as well. Okay more of a traditional
opening there. Let's have a look at another chapter just quickly.
Okay one or two or just maybe one from the top. So here okay this is very
important pattern. So the opponent just Queened a pawn. Rxg6 check bang and
then you see the bishop coordinating on the common square (h8 square) for the checkmate there.
Very important to get those common squares working for you to
punish opponents. Whoops that's just to navigate actually let's just go back to
the chapter list and pick one here one. One of my favorite opponents on lichess.org
c4 was played. You can go in for the kill here I believe threatening checkmate.
So that was desperate but to finish him off not to let him carry on. The best
move Queen g8 checkmate. So next game please! And you can see the 1.b3
opening at work. If you remember there's a Hikaru Nakamura video on how he won the ICC open. I
studied a lot be free 1.b3 and 1..b6 from that so that's why this has become a really
dangerous pet weapon at the faster time controls for me. But you can see how I'm
using this pet weapon in many examples. Okay so yeah the chapter list - 250 of
them. Let's go back so you can buy it as a gift it's reduced price at the moment
$4.99 - so I hope you have fun with that and yeah there's going to be a new
one after this. And yeah they're being carefully sourced. Thousands of thousands of
games crystallised to these these exercises for this course. So great fun
there to be had. Hope you check it out and let me know in the comments of this
video how you find it. Thanks very much. Oh there's the link by
the way. Or the description so that short URL link will take you there. Thanks
again. Have fun!