How to master Calculation? What difference can a coach make?

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In This Video I am discussing ideas and techniques to improve your calculations and your tactical skills. Additionally I highlight the importance of using a coach in order to accelerate this process. ▶ Follow me on https://twitter.com/chesscoachandra to be notified of new content. ▶ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chesscoach.a... ▶ Join us on discord: https://discord.gg/S4ZH9Pg - there is an Andras_Toth channel which I frequent ▶ Play chess online: chess24.com My chessable courses: https://www.chessable.com/chess-principles-reloaded-center/course/39556/ https://www.chessable.com/chess-principles-reloaded-development/course/50567/ https://www.chessable.com/chess-principles-reloaded-king-safety/course/63466/ My courses with Judit Polgar: https://www.chessable.com/master-your-chess-with-judit-polgar-part-1/course/72262/ https://www.chessable.com/master-your-chess-with-judit-polgar-part-2/course/79239/ https://www.chessable.com/master-your-chess-with-judit-polgar-part-3/course/83765/ What game is this?: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess Chess is a recreational and competitive board game played between two players. It is sometimes called Western or international chess to distinguish it from related games such as xiangqi. The current form of the game emerged in Southern Europe during the second half of the 15th century after evolving from similar, much older games of Indian and Persian origin. Today, chess is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments. Chess is an abstract strategy game and involves no hidden information. It is played on a square chessboard with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. At the start, each player (one controlling the white pieces, the other controlling the black pieces) controls sixteen pieces: one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops, and eight pawns. The object of the game is to checkmate the opponent's king, whereby the king is under immediate attack (in "check") and there is no way for it to escape. There are also several ways a game can end in a draw. Organized chess arose in the 19th century. Chess competition today is governed internationally by FIDE (International Chess Federation). The first universally recognized World Chess Champion, Wilhelm Steinitz, claimed his title in 1886; Magnus Carlsen is the current World Champion. A huge body of chess theory has developed since the game's inception. Aspects of art are found in chess composition; and chess in its turn influenced Western culture and art and has connections with other fields such as mathematics, computer science, and psychology. One of the goals of early computer scientists was to create a chess-playing machine. In 1997, Deep Blue became the first computer to beat the reigning World Champion in a match when it defeated Garry Kasparov. Though not flawless, today's chess engines are significantly stronger than even the best human players, and have deeply influenced the development of chess theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockfish_(chess) Stockfish is a free and open-source chess engine, available for various desktop and mobile platforms. It is developed by Marco Costalba, Joona Kiiski, Gary Linscott, Tord Romstad, Stéphane Nicolet, Stefan Geschwentner, and Joost VandeVondele, with many contributions from a community of open-source developers.[2] Stockfish is consistently ranked first or near the top of most chess-engine rating lists and is the strongest CPU chess engine in the world.[3] It won the unofficial world computer chess championships in seasons 6 (2014), 9 (2016), 11 (2018), 12 (2018), 13 (2018), 14 (2019), 16 (2019), 18 (2020), 19 (2020), 20 (2020-21) and 21 (2021). It finished runner-up in seasons 5 (2013), 7 (2014), 8 (2015), 15 (2019) and 17 (2020). Stockfish is derived from Glaurung, an open-source engine by Tord Romstad released in 2004. #chess