Checkmate Patterns - Learning Chess Series

Learning Spanish Series

Vegetables

Idiomatic expressions with por.
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnspanish/comments/kz0azq/phrases_starting_with_por/

Phrases with "por"

Inspiration: https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/l1xu4z/a_guide_summarising_all_the_cognitive_biases_that/

Cognitive biases that cloud our judgement

Front: religion practitioner in English
Back: religion practitioner in Spanish

Religions

"Greco's Mate is named after the famous Italian checkmate cataloguer Gioachino Greco. It works by using the bishop to contain the black king by use of the black g-pawn and subsequently using the queen or a rook to checkmate the king by moving it to the edge of the board."

Greco's Mate 

Fundamental Patterns - Learning Chess Series

"Whether you call it Zwischenzug (from German), Intermezzo (from Italian), an intermediate move or just an in-between move, it's all the same thing. It's a very common tactic that you need to know because it happens in almost all chess games. A Zwischenzug is when a player, instead of playing the expected move, often a recapture, plays another move that makes an immediate threat that the opponent must answer, before playing the original expected move."

Front of each card: image of problem
Back of each card: best solution using notation

The goal of this series is to learn to recognize patterns quickly, to then be able to evaluate more moves during gameplay, with less time and energy (chunking).

Source for flashcard content in this deck: https://lichess.org

Intermezzo

Training and Warm Up Puzzles - Learning Chess Series

Complete this warm up deck before your next 1600 - 1700 match, and review it as needed so each puzzle only takes a few seconds to solve.

1600 - 1700 rating

Complete this warm up deck before your next 1500 match, and review it as needed so each puzzle only takes a few seconds to solve.

1500+ rating (easy!)

Top 10 r/chess puzzles

Complete this warm up deck before your next 1300-1500 match, and review it as needed so each puzzle only takes a few seconds to solve.

1300+ rating

Learn the pronunciation of letters in Spanish.

Front: letter
Back: Pronunciation as read in English

Source: https://i.redd.it/fn5sd56edat51.jpg

Pronunciation of Letters' names

1300+ rating (2)

General shopping vocabulary.

Front: Spanish
Back: English

Source: https://tlcdenia.es/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2017/09/Vocabulario-de-compras-1.png


Vocabulary for retail shopping

Goal: to improve pattern recognition daily and definitively by reviewing solving each puzzle in a few seconds each.

Top 21-25 r/chess puzzles

Complete this warm up deck before your next match, and review it as needed so each puzzle only takes a few seconds to solve.

1900+ rating

Learn the names of various stores.

Front: Spanish
Back: English

Source: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a3/3f/36/a33f36bf5f0bdbf2cd568a9bd805b87a.jpg