Drill #4

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Exercise your thinking skills with drill #4!

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Lesson #21: How To Calculate – Which Candidate First?

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It’s back to candidates again!

In this lesson I give some practical tips on spotting and calculating them.

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Lesson #20: How To Calculate – Chess Is Not Checkers!

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In this lesson you are going to try and unlearn something ;-)
By the way, I added something new: exercise sheets.

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Lesson #18: Candidates – Thinking Outside The Box… Or Not?

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What do the cases of Sherlock Holmes and chess have in common?

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Question #5: What Is Tunnel Vision?

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Pablo askes:

I’ve come across in Lev Alburt’s books on the term “Tunnel Vision”. He mentions it but does not delve deeper into a topic that seems endemic to many players.
Can you expand on this issue and its remedy?

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Lesson #17: How To Calculate – Not Deep But Broad!

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In this lesson we look at calculation from a slightly different angle.

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Lesson #16: The Mechanism Of Attack And Defense

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In this video I introduce a new acronym and tool: T.I.M.S.I.C.
This tool will help you to distinguish generic types of defenses.
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Lesson #15: How To Calculate – Assumption Is Our Glue

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In this lesson we continue discussing several key aspects of calculation. This time it is “assumption”.

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Lesson #14: Falsification – Exercises

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In this lesson you are going to practice what your learned in the previous lesson!

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Lesson #13: How To Calculate – Introduction & Falsification

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Hi all, this is the first of a series of lessons in which you are going to learn more about phase 3 of the Analytical Approach: Calculation.

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