Short Checkmates to Avoid by Gary Ryan: Know and Sidestep Some of the Most Popular Opening Traps!

Learn From NYChessKids Vice President and Master Chess Teacher Gary Ryan
Discover the Two Most Basic Opening Checkmate Traps: The Fool’s Mate and the Scholar’s Mate
Watch Some of the Most Famous Short Checkmate Games in History and Learn How They Came About

Learn Patterns, Traps, and Tricks You Can Use to Win Your Own Games Lightning Fast!

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What Will You Learn?

Nothing is more disheartening than sitting down to a chess game and finding out you have been checkmated in only two to four moves. But if you’re not prepared, it can happen. If you don’t know some of the most famous opening checkmate traps and your opponent does, the game could be over before you even get settled in your chair.

That will never happen after you view Short Checkmates to Avoid by Gary Ryan. In Part I of this video, Gary walks you through the two opening checkmating traps you MUST know: The Fool’s Mate and the Scholar’s Mate. Gary Ryan is a Master Chess Teacher who has been teaching students of all ages for over 20 years, so he has seen countless students fall into these traps and he knows exactly what you need to do to avoid them. Gary takes you through each move, where the threats are, and how you can defend yourself and get a better position at the end.

Part I also features some miniature games from one of the most famous chess players of all time, American world champion Paul Morphy. In Part I of this video, you will see one of the best known chess games in history, the “Opera Game,” in which Morphy takes on the Duke of Brunswick and Count Isouard and makes short work of them. This is a very important game for you to learn, as it utilizes many of the basic tactics that you may have learned about in our other videos to good effect.

Part 2 features several other exciting games with quick knockouts, featuring world famous players such as Bobby Fischer, Richard Reti, and Sammy Resevsky. Also included is an analysis of the 2003 U.S. Women’s Championship Final, which was a famously hotly contested title.

Short checkmates to avoid is a great video if you want to improve your chess in a fun, relaxed way. You can learn a tremendous amount from these games, especially when it comes to tactics, opening principles, and critical thinking. By enjoying the attacking chess in these games, you can be entertained while learning useful ideas that you can implement in your own games. Gary Ryan helps you appreciate these games by going over them with you step by step, explaining the main ideas, what the players were thinking, and where the player who fell into a hopelessly losing or checkmate trap went wrong.

Learning chess fundamentals and studying tactics are important tools to improving your chess, but you should never discount the importance of instructive games. Games like this are not only a vibrant part of chess culture, but they help integrate a lot of the ideas you have been learning in chess into your memory so they are readily available when similar situations arise in your own games.

If you’re ready to enjoy some fun, exciting, and instructive short chess games analyzed by a master chess teacher, order Short Checkmates to Avoid by Gary Ryan today!

Learn Patterns, Traps, and Tricks You Can Use to Win Your Own Games Lightning Fast!

Check Out The Trailer!

What Will You Learn?

So, What Exactly Do You Get?

PART 1

INTRO

FOOL'S MATE/SCHOLAR'S MATE

PAULYMORPH GAME

PART 2

SUCKER PUNCH GAME

GOLD COIN GAME

SNOOTY UPSTART GAME FISCHER VS RESHEVSKY

U.S. WOMEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL 2003

OUTRO

$27

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