Calculation – A Complete Guide for Tournament Players by CM Azel Chua

These Simple Calculation Techniques
Transformed An OK 1664-Elo Amateur
Into A Championship-Winning Master

Candidate Master Azel Chua needed years of heartbreaking “trial and error” to streamline his move selection and calculation skills. But you need not walk the same bumpy road. With his step-by-step blueprint, you’re able to zero in on the best move faster than you ever did… and play your most confident chess yet.

About four years ago — with a modest rating of 1664 — Azel was in desperate need of a reliable calculation system for classical games and puzzles.

He took the old adage “Chess is 99% tactics” to heart, and solved tactics exercises with the obsession of a mad man.

But even after plowing through 20,000-plus positions, Azel was still missing very elementary combinations. Visualizing variations didn’t feel any easier. Keeping track of exchanges felt impossible. Worse, the best moves kept eluding him.

That’s when Azel re-examined his play to weed out bad playing habits, and build a repeatable calculation process that works.

It took a lot of stops-and-starts and trips back to the drawing board. But when his error tracking, self-analysis, and training experiments clicked together, Azel was able to…

Add 528 Points To His Rating
And Clinch The Candidate Master Title

Calculation: A Complete Guide For Tournament Players is a hands-on training course, which enables you to consistently find strong, unexpected moves that clinch the full point.

Through 5 hours of video, Azel teaches you the same calculation and decision-making techniques that catapulted him to his biggest milestones yet — including first place at Singapore’s 34th and 35th National Age Group Championships… third place at the 71st National Championship… and clear first and undefeated at the 4th Singapore Amateur Championship.

Here’s what you’ll learn:

🧠 How to use the Burger Technique to ensure your calculations are on the right track. This way, you avoid wasting valuable time on irrelevant moves, while zeroing in closer to the winning idea.

🧠 Why a narrow focus on checks, captures and threats sabotages your ability to find the strongest continuation. PLUS — how to use Reciprocal Thinking to find silent killers that “Crash! Bang! Boom!” moves miss.

🧠 Having mixed feelings about a variation? Run it through the “One and a half-move” test to confidently tell whether you should play, reject or analyze it deeper.

🧠 The Superposition Technique that simplifies your move selection process when weighing between two or more identical ideas.

🧠 How to use the 4-step Pattern Internalisation Essentials to quickly “burn”a new chess pattern into your memory…and keep it there. (The more winning patterns you know by heart, the more accurate and efficient your calculations will be.)

🧠 And… 3 simple exercises that hone your visualization skills and enable you to see 3, 4 or even 5 moves into the future.

Best part?

Azel organized the material in a way that brings all of the techniques together. So that by the time you’re done, you’ll have an efficient and watertight system for finding the best moves — especially in sharp, complicated games.

Azel also upgrades your basic tactics know-how with practical tips you can use today.

You’ll learn not only how to pinpoint the major tactical weaknesses in a position… but also how to lock in on the right target and ensure your attack hits the mark.

You’ll be given a simple method for identifying and surrounding trappable enemy pieces. So you can calmly bring in reinforcements and secure a decisive advantage.

You’ll learn how to spot critical squares and lines that lead straight to the enemy king. Take control of these routes, and your attack is all but guaranteed to succeed.

And to fine-tune your calculation all the way to the endgame, Azel also teaches you mental shortcuts like:

🧠 The three ranks rule which tells you at a glance if the defender can hold a “rook and pawn vs. rook” endgame.

🧠 Untouchable pawns that turn into a brand new queen, even if your king is too far away to provide support.

🧠 PLUS — a 3-point strategy for saving “king and pawn vs. king” endgames. It’s so simple that — once you get it — the proper defensive method just comes to you in a snap.

Calculation: A Complete Guide For Tournament Players is so crammed full of practical and tournament-tested calculation techniques, we’re certain you’ll find in it the key to your next chess breakthrough.

But don’t take our word for it. See for yourself when you…