Chessfox Academy

Chessfox Academy offers a simple, practical, and highly effective training system for self-taught and early intermediate players.

The focus is on developing the thinking methods and practical skills you actually need in a real game.

Try it and see how simple improving your chess can be!

Browse the Lessons

Why You’re Stuck

How to Think

The 7 Skills

TACTICS

How to Train Tactics

Targets: Exposed King

Targets: Undefended Piece

Targets: Important Defenders

Targets: Overloaded Defenders

Targets: Pinned Piece

Targets: Weak Back Rank

Targets: Higher-value Piece

Targets: Trapped Piece

Target Groups

Targets: Important Squares

Importance of Targets

Theme: Fork

Theme: Pin

Theme: Sacrifice

Theme: Defensive move

Theme: Discovered attack

Theme: Deflection

Theme: Attraction

Theme: Skewer

Theme: Discovered check

Theme: Clearance

Theme: Intermezzo

Theme: Trapped piece

Theme: Advanced pawn

Theme: Zugzwang

Theme: Capture the defender

Theme: Double check

Theme: Interference

Theme: X-Ray attack

Theme: Creating a Target

Checkmates: Back rank mate

Checkmates: Epaulette mate

Checkmates: Corner mate

Checkmates: Hook mate

Checkmates: Anastasia’s mate

Checkmates: Arabian mate

Checkmates: Blind Swine mate

Checkmates: Kill box mate

Checkmates: Dovetail mate

Checkmates: Boden’s mate

Checkmates: Double bishop mate

Checkmates: Balestra mate

Checkmates: Opera mate

Checkmates: Smothered mate

Checkmates: Morphy’s mate

Checkmates: Pillsbury’s mate

Checkmates: Swallow’s tail mate

Checkmates: Triangle mate

Checkmates: Vuković mate

Mixed Tactics #1

Tactics Training Bundle

VISUALIZATION

CALCULATION

CCT Calculation Method

How to Train Calculation (hard puzzles); disciplined concentration; interaction

The Blunder Check

STRATEGY

OPENINGS

ENDGAMES

EVALUATION