My Opponent’s Move Identifying Threats, Mistakes and Misconceptions + PGN

Improve Your Game by Understanding Your Opponent’s

Do you have a checklist to consider when your opponent makes a move?

You probably have your list before you commit to a move, but too few players consider the ramifications of their opponents’ choices. Instead, they think of a plan, developing tunnel vision, only to see the game slip through their fingers when a move they never even considered possible is played.

CM Can Kabadayi’s latest course, My Opponent’s Move: Identifying Threats, Mistakes and Misconceptions, will teach you to develop a mental checklist to spot your opponent’s threats.

You’ll save yourself from those painful rating losses suffered because you just didn’t see the move that lost you a piece, gave you doubled pawns, or worse, delivered checkmate.

In four chapters, you’ll train your threat detection by training a mix of tactical and positional puzzles adhering to the following structure:

🕵️Tactical threats – gradually develop a sense of danger by identifying the tactical threats faced as a result of your opponent’s last move. Each variation highlights a separate theme and fundamental thought processes involved in the correct solutions.

🕵️Positional threats – Improve your defensive technique and prophylactic thinking by asking questions such as “Does my opponent want to awaken a dead piece?” “Does my opponent want to execute a pawn break that would disturb my central control?”

🕵️Tactical drawbacks – notice the drawbacks of your opponent’s moves – “‘What was that piece doing before, but not anymore?” “What has become unprotected now?”, and “What has become trappable now?”

🕵️Positional drawbacks – become aware of aspects that negatively affect a position – “Can I now gain good squares for my pieces because of my opponent’s last move?” “Did my opponent just give me a chance to exchange his/her good piece for my bad piece?”