Training track

Tactics

The patterns that win games: double attacks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, sacrifices and mating nets, trained through hundreds of positions.

  • Basic tactical motifs
  • Checkmate patterns
  • Attacking the king
  • Combinations

Courses in this track

All 19 lessons online All levels

Attacking the King

Checkmates, Attacks and Defence · by Yatish Chandra Shukla

The mating patterns that appear again and again in real games, how to bring your pieces to the enemy king and when a sacrifice works, and how to keep your own king safe and defend calmly when you are the one under attack. Every exercise is graded with one, two or three stars.

19 Lessons103 Diagrams411 Exercises240 Mixed puzzles
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All 12 lessons online Beginner to club

Tactics Essentials

The basic patterns that win games · by Kapilash Chess Academy

Loose pieces, forks, pins, skewers, discovered attacks, removing the defender, deflection and decoy, mating patterns and defence. Every exercise comes from real opening play: your opponent makes a natural mistake, and you find the move that punishes it. All positions are checked with a chess engine.

12 Lessons20 Model positions191 Exercises
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