Grandmaster Tips - How to Build Your Calculation Muscles 

This is probably the best chess video I've watched from the start of 2024

This is by far the best video on chess calculation on RU-vid.

I cant thank you enough sir!.. this is the best lecture ive ever seen on calculation-visualisation , thank you especially for not drawing any arrows and making us visualise it!!

Man It is very scary and inspiring how good a GM can calculate. By no doubt this is the best calculation videos of all time.

Hello Josh it's very late in coming as I stepped out of otb chess 20 years or so but congrats on becoming a GM. Knew you would be successful. Last time I saw you was at mandnoc. I never got to thankyou for convincing me back then that Rxc3 in the sicilian was sound. Rofl I won many games after that after that early lesson. You 8 then and already teaching. This video is outstanding. Hope you and you family are well

Welcome back, GM!

Excellent example. Superb.

Very good. Instructive video. Thank you.

Very instructional video

Amazing.....you are definitely a great teacher.

Outstanding video. Thank you for posting this.

Great practical video. Thank you

Thanks for doing this - very informative. One suggestion - would it be possible to draw arrows when you are talking about what moves are possible instead of just moving the little cursor? Think it would be easier to follow. Enjoyed your talk on Perpetual Chess and look forward to your upcoming book.

Superb stuff Josh, more please.

You're finally back! I was thinking about ending my life but now I have a reason to live again, lol. Glad to "watch you again"

wow! This was just an awesome exercise!

Absolute gem, thank you!

Great Video

Such a good video

Good intermediate level instruction

I felt my calculation skills increasing as I watched this video.

thank you for your effort putting this up, if I may suggest please use arrows so we can easier follow the moves.

Very instructive video, great lecture. Referring to Maya Chiburdanidze as (former) women's world champion (apart from all time great you mentioned) would have been fitting.

Very nice teaching sir🎉❤, pl demonstrate with arrows and pl go little slow so that unrated players can understand ,By the way best teaching video 🎉❤

Very nice stuff, and no you're NOT bad at analogies, obviously!

Thank you

Lovely example game. I feel like the way I evaluate material *last* has certainly bit me in the butt a few times, but when you first showed the position, Rxb6 with the idea to play Bc4 and gang up on f7 seemed like the obvious natural move. Rxe6 would also certainly be my first candidate move, not Nxe6. The "it's not what's off the board that counts, it's what's ON the board" thing always resonated with me strongly, and those ideas seemed incredibly natural. I did not notice white was down a pawn until you said so, my evaluation instantly preferred white and Rxb6. Is material really so important? When things calm down and nothing is happening, sure, I'm not asking about that. But did I actually need to see that white was down a pawn *before* all those calculations, or is it OK to save the count until the end of the tactical complications, when it's going to be more relevant?

Hey man , any great book recommendations ? Rating is 2100 fide

found b5 wooohooo 😃😁

Indeed, practicing against chess engines makes your visualizing capability weaker and ingenuity. So use engines only for doublechecking and NOT all the time. Bh8 is weird looking and enables many checking patterns.

Thank you for making this video.... 🔥❤❤

Great video

Great content with awesome presentation 👍

really underrated video. i dont know how this has as few views as it does. +1 subscriber from me

Since youtube in Russia now is getting from bad to worse I wish you Josh to be able to show your lessons not only on youtube but lets say on Twich-it is still legal in here at least temporarily))

Thank you from Russia, Perm!

great video!!

I just found your channel. This is a great find that certain positions have lots of surprising calculation lessons and are as useful or even more so than studying entire games for the "skills-training" that you propose. Thanks.

Fantastic

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I hope you get back to your autopsy video series. I loved it back in that days

Brilliant explanations!

Great content. Very useful

Whoa... this man is not simply an expert player. Actually a teacher! Thank you! I'm a beginner (lichess 1100) but with this lesson I finally think I understand tempo... and more specifically why almost every puzzle starts with a check :)