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How to Avoid Mistakes and Boost Your Winning Rate by Vishnu Prasanna

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How to Avoid Mistakes and Boost Your Winning Rate by Vishnu Prasanna

Doesn’t every chess game get decided by mistakes? Absolutely. But most players never truly comprehend that they are making the same kind of mistakes over and over again. The first task is to identify these mistakes and label them. Then the next time you sit at the chessboard, you are aware and able to avoid them.

- GM Vishnu Prasanna is one of the most respected chess trainers in India. He is the coach of the current Indian no.1 player D. Gukesh – his main coach for his journey from 2200 to 2750 Elo. Vishnu has used his immense experience to touch upon the topic of mistakes in chess. -

Free sample video: Vishnu's own blunder

Free sample video: Gukesh was just 11 years old

Free sample video: Gukesh's transformation

Vishnu groups mistakes into the following categories:

1. Unforced Errors
2. Tactical & Positional mistakes
3. Psychological mistakes
4. Calculation & Assessment mistakes
5. Good positional moves that are mistakes

With more than 20 examples, you get a firm understanding of each type of mistake. IM Sagar Shah asks pertinent questions, and has also made cards, shown throughout the videos, that ensure you can firmly grasp the nature of the mistakes. Vishnu discusses how to fix these mistakes, and how his students - Gukesh, Leon Mendonca, Surya Ganguly and himself! - all very strong grandmasters, managed to fix the mistakes that they were making - leading to serious improvement in their play. To conclude, there are test positions to reinforce your understanding of the subject. If you study this course carefully, it will help you to become a stronger and more aware chess player, and will surely lead to a rise in your level of play.

Video running time: 4 h 26 min
Extra: Extra chapter with exercises

This is what is delivered:

Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
Available as download or on DVD
Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
Sample games as a ChessBase database.
New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!

That's what the FritzTrainer App can do for you:

Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.

Even more possibilities: Start FritzTrainer in the ChessBase program!

The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
Replay training
LiveBook active
All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
Assisted Analysis
Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)

Sample video

Introduction
Videos 1-10
Introduction with GM Vishnu's shocking blunder
Setting a deadly trap
When Magnus wasn't as strong as he is today!
Gukesh was just 11 years old
Bolt from the blue
Calculating deep against the World Champion
Magnus Carlsen's positional acumen
When you will to win makes you go wrong
Queen + Knight is a deadly combo and Fabi knows it
Make sure you calculate accurately against Kramnik
Videos 11-20
Outdefending the minister of Defence
Difference between Evaluation and Calculation
How can this natural move be a mistake? Part 1
How can this natural move be a mistake? Part 2
When Magnus' will to win was misguided
Tal's 2+2 = 5
They call MVL the Lyonbeast for a reason
Calculate, Calculate, Calculate
Trying to checkmate a FIDE World Champion's king
Surya Ganguly's imagination
Videos 21-26
The creativity of Shakhriyar Mamedyarov
Viktor Korchnoi was known for his calculation
Surya Ganguly's transformation
Vishnu Prasanna's transformation
Leon Mendonca's transformation
Gukesh's transformation
Exercises
Exercises
Exercise 01
Exercise 02
Exercise 03
Exercise 04
Exercise 05
Conclusion