The World is broken, a war between Russia & Ukraine has been ongoing for 8 months. We’ve had 2 years of COVID, people not allowed to work unless they were ‘Key Workers (UK) and now rising fuel costs have made life hard for people and spending hard earned cash on chess lessons that don’t deliver is not what you want.
KC is on Udemy as one of the top rated Chess Lecturers on that site. His courses are great value for money; especially if you drop on a sale. KC regularly offers massive discounts on Udemy btw.
One reason for the rise in interest regarding chess comes from The Queen’s Gambit on Netflix. The series boosted the interest in Chess and created a desire to learn how to play chess in a lot of people. My point is simply this; chess is a game. It’s simple to learn, it’s only got 6 bits and a square board to learn about. The board is divided into 64 squares, 32 light coloured and 32 dark coloured and is the setting for a war between 2 armies. Easy.
If only it was a simple game to play.
Chess is hard.
Kingscrusher has taken to creating courses based on the games of famous GMs such as Fischer, Morphy, Tal and Capablanca. He uses engine analysis and his extensive experience to educate people in matters of chess.
He’s created 2 courses on ‘Tactics’ and a massive 40 hour long course on ‘Pawn Structure’ along with a 40 hour course for beginners.
Being a GM is not an indication that they are good at passing on knowledge to beginners; it’s an indication that they are dedicated to studying chess and have reached a certain rating and picked up the required ‘Norms’ to get the title GM. Every Titled player has dedicated a large amount of time to this game.
Time invested is the true cost of learning how to play chess well.
I hope that whatever option you choose delivers what your hoping for.
He is the only person ive seen on Youtube who draws conclusions and takeaway points from a game, and how we can use the strategies and tactics from the game into our games, most top players always tell us to study master games, but we amateurs always wonder why to, KC always shows how we can learn from master games( especially the old once) , like for example a week ago he analysed capablanca - Tartakower, he showed how capablanca won the endgame intstructively like how its important to have rooks on the 7th rank, use your opponents pawn as shield from your opponents checks, and how to use your king in the endgame, this are very instructive and you can use in your games, i think he is very criminally underated