Brilliant video. I think you are now in my top three RU-vid chess teachers, alongside Igor Smirnov and Robert Ramirez. This is excellent company to be keeping.
I own your course already, but still studying it. And I love this example. I have to admit I directly calculated how to mate my opponent until you mentioned to look for my opponent's last move. Instantly I saw the mate threat and found quickly the solution. But honestly, I would have done it wrong in a real game. So I‘m really happy that you made this course and these additional videos to help us get better in calculation. And I have still some work to do to reach this goal 😅
Thank you so much for your kind comment. It is a gradual process, as it involves a shift in thought processes. Hopefully things will become easier after you study my course - that is the main reason why I wrote it. Please let me know about your future progress after you complete it!
Thank you! That is a common issue indeed - and that is one of the many reasons why my course has a combination of tactical and positional puzzles - so you improve/train your ability to sense the critical moment - just like in a real game.
Wonderful. An excellent lesson, hard to apply but important skill to develop. One needs to change one's natural proclivities. I bought the course and it is excellent. Slowing me down, getting me used to thinking in a better way.
You're videos encourage me to refrain from playing blitz as I don't do this step-by-step when playing. I want to play rapid games now to give me more time when practicing
My first instinct was Qc3 oops 😬 but then Rd7 and then I saw Qf6 to defend the checkmate on d8, attack the rook as well as our own backrank mate. You're an incredible teacher, Dr. Can. 🎉 ❤
👏👏💯 once again thank you I like the Idea of looking for the opponent best response move 🎉as opposed to banging my head against the wall look at ALL possiblites can improve focus on what really matters an save energy and time, you always have those small ideas that can make biiig differences
For some reason I've recently developed a frustrating mental blindness that I think of as tunnel vision, over focusing and not seeing alternative moves and ideas. It sounds like your course might be the remedial program I need.
At first, I didn't understand how you noticed Qf6. But then, I realized that it's the only square that is aligned with all of the critical squares, diagonals, and ranks. Literally a matter of connecting the dots... or in this case, squares
I was reading a book on this recently, youtube really knows what to recommend me 😁 This was much more succinct and something that can immediately be put into practice, whether through gameplay or post-game analysis.
Great video and insight into the right thinking process. It’s just so difficult to implement in real games because, I don’t know when to stop. I found the threat, I eliminated the tempting q f7 move and I thought rook counterattack on white queen was good enough. How do you to continue to look for something better when you feel like you already found traps and are running out of time. The discipline required to go through the entire process is so difficult to attain
Thanks for your kind feedback. Agreed, things are difficult in real time. Experience helps. We should not seek perfection but still get to know the right thought process. We can even aim to apply it in slow mediums, including correspondence chess. Accuracy and consistency before speed!
In your opinion is your new course comparable to Mark Dvoretski's work on a similar topic "Recognizing your opponent's resources" and which is also available on Chessable? I own a physical copy of Dvoretski's book and was considering buying it on Chessable but your course also caught my attention.
Thanks for this question! I also own that book by Dvoretsky. I think his book is suitable for stronger players and they mostly involve prophylactic thinking where you need to identify good ideas by the opponent. My course is also about the drawback principle. We will identify the potential mistakes behind the opponent's last move and exploit it.
@@Dr.CansClinic You're right, Dvoretski's material is aimed at advanced level players, and it is very useful for its purpose, "develop preventive thinking", and yours also to practice and internalize the thinking processes that you address, I will take advantage of Chessable's holyday sale and I will buy both courses.
