Don’t Panic: A Chess Master’s Guide to Calculation Tactics course by FM Martin Kreuzer

Be calm and
CALCULATE

Imagine this: the clock is running low, and none of your candidate moves convince you. It’s crunch time, and you need to make a decision. How do you keep your cool and find the right move?

Don’t Panic: A Chess Master’s Guide to Calculation is an old-school but effective approach to improving the single most important factor in your chess improvement: calculation.

This combination of puzzles, studies, and games of the old masters trains you to ‘keep calm and calculate’ your way to a win even in the direst of circumstances

What you will learn:

♚ Calculation Training – forget about positional considerations and deepen your calculation: the course uses artificial positions with a set number of sublines which will help train your pattern recognition

♚ Visualization training – in the puzzles collected here, you will oftentimes have to search for exciting key moves sometime in the future, and this will automatically aid to train your visualization skills

♚ Tactical pattern recognition – as your game progresses, advanced players won’t fall for simple 1-2 move combinations. Learn more sophisticated tactical patterns, not just expanding the depth of your calculation, but the breadth as well

♚ Chess history – this course is not all about tactical sequences – by studying the highly instructive games and puzzles of the forefathers of chess, you will also learn about them and the history of the game

Authored by a passionate player and chess history buff

Your author, Dr. Martin Kreuzer, a FIDE Master and correspondence chess Grandmaster, is a true chess fanatic.

He brings that passion into creating his courses. Not only is he highly knowledgeable of the game itself, but he knows a great deal about its history – which he intertwines in this course with top-notch instruction and puzzles.