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Mastering Chess Tactics and Calculations

Online
3-4 hours
Free

Course Content

Explore essential tactics and insights needed to excel and elevate your chess gameplay in this free online course. This course is designed to help you master the key tactics and calculations essential for excelling in chess. Whether you aim to boost your focus, enhance strategic thinking, or simply elevate your skills, this course offers the tools and insights for success. Covering everything from foundational tactics and checkmate strategies to advanced techniques, Enroll today and learn to outsmart opponents and take your gameplay to the next level.

Course Details

CollegeAlison
Course ID201489
Course TypeOnline Learning
Course QualificationCPD Certificate
Course Duration3-4 hours
Course FeeFree
Entry RequirementsLike all courses on the Alison Free Learning platform this is a free, CPD-accredited course. A Graduate can choose to buy a certificate or diploma upon successful completion of a course, but this is not required or necessary.

At Alison we believe that free education, more than anything, has the power to break through boundaries and transform lives.

Alison is the world’s largest free online empowerment platform for education and skills training, offering over 5000 CPD accredited courses and a range of impactful career development tools. It is a for-profit social enterprise dedicated to making it possible for anyone, to study anything, anywhere, at any time, for free online, at any subject level. Through our mission, we are a catalyst for positive social change, creating opportunity, prosperity, and equality for everyone.
Career PathWhat You Will Learn In This Free Course
• Define threat and state how it influences the game of chess
• Explain the purposes of sacrifices and their types in chess gameplay
• Discuss the concepts of combinations in chess and their benefits
• Distinguished between the different organized thinking processes in chess
• Outline effective measures for improving chess tactics and game efficiency
• Recall strategies for avoiding blunders
• Explain the concepts of checkmate and a double-attack
• Discuss the concepts of a mating knight and knight of six
• Summarize the Alekine's defense concept
• Recall what characterizes the Bogoljubow Variation in Alekhine's Defense
• Distinguish between caging and semi-caging game approaches in chess
• Identify the pieces that are involved in creating a mating net
Course Code7198

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