Calculate Like a Beast The Moranda Method by GM Wojciech Moranda 10 Feb 2025

Turn Your Chess Calculation Struggles
Into Strength With The Intense
5×12 Moranda Method

This training program breaks down chess calculation into 5 sub-skills for precision practice. Then, its 12 progressive sessions build the grit you need to dig deep and find double-exclams… before its spaced reviews lock in your newfound powers. So you can predict not just the best move — but the best series of moves in any given position!

The Moranda Method is the brainchild of Grandmaster Wojciech Moranda. He’s one of Poland’s top pros with a career-high rating of 2636 Elo.

He won the 45th Rubinstein Memorial Tournament, 2012 Polish Student Championship, and the 2014 Polish Team Championship.

Now, he’s on a mission to turn calculation into a trainable science!

So you can spot threats and resources up to 7 moves deep…

You too can spot game-winners hidden
deep in the line, like 32…Qd5+!

Uncover decisive shots that normal pattern recognition can’t…

Typical patterns may not include 18…Bd1!! But
you can train your eye for these brilliancies!

While harmonizing “if-then” analysis with the rest of your thinking to…

Unlock Your Cleanest Chess Yet

What elevates the Moranda Method as a calculation training program is its structure.

Moranda discourages endless puzzle-solving. It may improve one’s tactics. But it neglects everything else. So instead, he serves “deep thinking” exercises to build up your well-rounded technique.

He starts by debunking the popular myths holding you back.

🎯 Grinding tactics to improve calculation? That’s like taking vitamin C to cure influenza. It’s nowhere near enough!

🎯 The offhand comment that flipped everything — why Moranda found most endgame studies lacking as a calculation training tool.

🎯 The type of book that can drain your motivation fast.

🎯 And finally — the true goal of calculation. (No, it’s not finding combos.)

With the bad habits gone, you’re now ready for focused, deliberate practice. It’s the kind of practice that can shape up to 40% of your chess skill…

And Moranda ensures you get plenty with his 5-exercise training session. It splits calculation into sub-skills you use every game. So you can hone these individual parts for faster, more lasting improvement.

🎯 “Sting in the tail” tactics push you to visualize deeper and clearer. All while staying alert for unusual but effective moves.

🎯 Tricky positions instill the “2 candidates” rule in you. So you don’t fixate on one move, and miss critical details that might just end the game!

🎯 Threats from all directions teach you to discard losing lines fast. So you can focus on lines that safely advance your plan.

🎯 Mutual attacks challenge you to chain forcing moves together… breaking through the position before your opponent does.

With 35.e6, 36.Qe5!!, and an eventual
Nxe6, White reaches the enemy
king before Black can promote

🎯 Then you awaken your 6th sense for critical positions with a “Find The Mistake” exercise.

You get 12 of these 5-exercise training sessions. All structured through progressive overload.

It’s the training principle sprinters use to blaze through 400 meters in seconds. Weightlifters rely on it to press twice their body weight. Now you too can tap into its power.

The Moranda Method increases the intensity with every session. Each one drives you to visualize farther and find better candidate moves. Each one drives you to analyze faster than last time…

Until you reach the final challenge — a 7-move, blow-for-blow sequence. One which will test every part of your technique!

Of course, learning skills is only half the equation for mastery. The other half is making them stick. That’s where spaced repetition comes in.

76 MoveTrainer exercises space out your reviews… giving you plenty of opportunities to refine your technique and pattern recognition.