17th day's checkmate puzzles, coaching exercises
Today's chess day started with a coaching session with a new student from Germany. We created a study plan for him and analysed one of his recent games. I created 3 puzzles from the critical moments:
After the lesson I got a haircut.
The next session was with Raphael from Tokyo. We analysed his games and studied examples how to use the minor pieces.
These were interesting positions:
In the afternoon I had a coaching session with Adam, a new student from the United States. He gave this nice checkmate:
Then I had my daily checkmate session LIVE on my stream at https://www.twitch.tv/attilaturzo
I solved 70 checkmate puzzles and had fun with the viewers.
You can solve a few interesting ones:
You can solve all the 70 puzzles with me if you watch this video:
After the checkmates I had a coaching session with Diego He showed a training game which he played against a strong player:
We finished the session with a 5 minutes blitz game where I was able to show how to attack the backward d6 pawn in the sicilian defense:
Would you like to improve your chess?
You can read about my coaching philosophy and methods at https://www.chess.com/article/view/coach-of-the-month-im-attila-turzo
You can email me about lessons at attilaturzo@gmail.com
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