My Opponent's Move: Identifying Threats, Mistakes and Misconcepti...

Tactics course by CM Can Kabadayi
Includes video and PGN

Language: English
Lectures: 9
Total Running Time: 5 hours 38 minutes

From the course:

Improve Your Game by Understanding Your Opponent's

Do you have a checklist to consider when your opponent makes a move?

You probably have your list before you commit to a move, but too few players consider the ramifications of their opponents' choices. Instead, they think of a plan, developing tunnel vision, only to see the game slip through their fingers when a move they never even considered possible is played.

CM Can Kabadayi's latest course, My Opponent's Move: Identifying Threats, Mistakes and Misconceptions, will teach you to develop a mental checklist to spot your opponent's threats.

You'll save yourself from those painful rating losses suffered because you just didn't see the move that lost you a piece, gave you doubled pawns, or worse, delivered checkmate.

In four chapters, you'll train your threat detection by training a mix of tactical and positional puzzles adhering to the following structure:

🕵️Tactical threats - gradually develop a sense of danger by identifying the tactical threats faced as a result of your opponent's last move. Each variation highlights a separate theme and fundamental thought processes involved in the correct solutions.

🕵️Positional threats - Improve your defensive technique and prophylactic thinking by asking questions such as "Does my opponent want to awaken a dead piece?" "Does my opponent want to execute a pawn break that would disturb my central control?"

🕵️Tactical drawbacks - notice the drawbacks of your opponent's moves - "'What was that piece doing before, but not anymore?" "What has become unprotected now?", and "What has become trappable now?"

🕵️Positional drawbacks - become aware of aspects that negatively affect a position - "Can I now gain good squares for my pieces because of my opponent’s last move?" "Did my opponent just give me a chance to exchange his/her good piece for my bad piece?"

The Latest from a Homegrown Chessable Legend — Now with Video!

Through 5-plus hours of video, Can Kabadayi walks you through his entire threat detection process. Using select positions, he directs your minds eye to the hidden clues telling you what the opponent is up to.