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Preventing Blunders in Chess
MoveTrainer® Tactics course by CM Can Kabadayi
Get Rid of Blunders − Get Better at Chess
In the heat of the moment, we sometimes make decisions that look right at first, but turn out to be terrible mistakes later—both in life and in chess. The good thing is, in chess you can do something about this!
In this course, you’ll learn a reliable method to check your moves for blunders, enabling you to make better decisions instead. And this can bring your chess a big step forward, since most games, especially at the amateur level, are decided by tactical errors.
If you reduce your blunders, you will therefore immediately see results—even without increasing your knowledge in strategy, opening, endgame or any other aspect of the game!
Let’s look at a position from the course. What would you play here with White?
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You probably saw that the bishop is about to get trapped. One might therefore be tempted to play f5. But here’s where you should stop yourself and think: “Hang on a second…”.
A simple blunder-checking process to ensure your moves are safe
That’s where CM Can Kabadayi’s checklist comes in. Can came up with a method he calls CLAMP—an acronym for:
☑️ Checks
☑️ Loose Pieces and Loose Squares
☑️ Alignments
☑️ Mobility Restrictions
☑️ Passed Pawns
Can will explain these more in the course, but more importantly, you'll get structured training on how to apply them correctly.
Applying this to the puzzle above, you’ll see that the tempting move f5 would not only allow a check—34.f5 Qxg4+—, but also, it would leave something hanging: 35.Qg3 Qxf5. And suddenly you threw away a winning advantage! By checking your candidate moves for the criteria listed above, you’ll reduce the chance of something like this happening.
When working with a checklist like this one, it is not only important to practice it, but also to learn how to use it properly to improve your decision-making and which pitfalls to avoid.
With his background in Cognitive Science, author Can Kabadayi is your perfect instructor for this. In his thorough introduction to the course—which is definitely worth reading entirely—he explains psychological mechanisms behind blunders, for example the confirmation bias.
Once you have the scientific, theoretical knowledge and are aware of the processes that lead to mistakes and the ones that prevent them, you get to practice.
Training with the right positions is also important in order to foster your new thinking process. Can picked the perfect exercises to help you internalize the blunder checking process: in many puzzles you have a limited number of candidate moves and the goal is to discard the ones that will lead to problems later.
Here’s an overview of what you’ll get in the course:
🔺Thorough explanations of the psychology behind blunders
🔺A clear method to improve your move safety/blunder reduction
🔺More than 200 puzzles to practice what you learned
🔺Over 27 hours of video instruction
Author CM Can Kabadayi is a highly skilled chess coach specialized in teaching improvers below master level. He has already published several successful courses that helped hundreds of chess learners improve. It's not surprising that he became our Author of the Year 2024!
This course really is the perfect fit for anyone who is looking for a structured way to improve their move safety. With Can’s method, you will make a lot less of those costly mistakes that don’t really reflect your actual playing strength.
Start working on blunder reduction now and see how far you’ll come!
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