New: Vishnu Prasanna: How to Avoid Mistakes and Boost Your Winning Rate
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. Increase your knowledge and understanding by learning from this new Fritztrainer by GM Vishnu Prasanna. Now you can stream it on any device - smartphone, tablets, computers etc. You can also read it in ChessBase Book format. So hurry up and grab this if you haven't yet. Photo: ChessBase
How to Avoid Mistakes and Boost Your Winning Rate
by Vishnu Prasanna
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.
ChessBase Books: Free sample video: Vishnu's own blunder
ChessBase Books: Gukesh was just 11 years old
ChessBase Books: Gukesh's transformation
Vishnu groups mistakes into the following categories:
1. Unforced Errors
2. Calculation & Assessment mistakes
3. Tactical & Positional mistakes
4. Good positional moves that are mistakes
5. Psychological 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 hours 26 minutes (English)
• Extra chapter with exercises
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About Vishnu Prasanna
GM Vishnu Prasanna is a strong grandmaster with a career high rating of 2545. However, he has found that his true calling lies in training, and he has worked with some of the best players of Indian chess. They include strong GMs like D. Gukesh, Surya Sekhar Ganguly, Leon Mendonca and many others. Vishnu also has an academy in Chennai, where he works with players of all levels. This gives him great insight into how talent can be developed, and a view of the entire spectrum of chess improvement. He feels that there is no one way for any chess player to improve, and each must seek their own path towards reaching their maximum potential.
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