The Five Core Exercises
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Select which patterns will irreversibly enter your subconscious mind
Foundational
Hanging Pieces
Take free material. Train your eye to spot undefended and underdefended pieces and win them in a single move.
Suggested Level: <1000
Arriving September
Beginner
Naked Tactics
Utilise a primary tactical theme in order to win material in simplified positions with few pieces on the board.
Suggested Level: <1200
Bring The Noise
Utilise a primary tactical theme in order to win material in busy positions you learned to see through in our Naked Tactics course.
Suggested Level: <1200
Post-beginner
Clever Combinations
Set up the primary tactical patterns you have mastered in Naked Tactics and Bring the Noise by combining motifs, learn secondary set-up motifs such as attraction, clearance and deflection.
Suggested Level: <1400
Arriving October
Checkmate Patterns
The named mating nets every player must know — back-rank, smothered, Anastasia, Boden and more.
Suggested Level: <1400
Pawn Promotion
You have mastered tactics that take material off the board — now it is time to apply the same themes towards a different goal: pawn promotion.
Suggested Level: <1400
Intermediate
Cunning Combinations
Build on the combinations and decoy techniques you have learned with more challenging simple combinations.
Suggested Level: <1600
Endgame Tactics
The same motifs, now with few pieces left on the board — where a single tempo decides the game and every tactic is played for promotion or the draw.
Suggested Level: <1600
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