Calculation Step by Step: A Grandmaster’s Training Guide Vol 2 - Advanced Practice by Surya Ganguly
Calculation Step by Step: A Grandmaster’s Training Guide Vol 2 - Advanced Practice by Surya Ganguly
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Calculation Step by Step: A Grandmaster’s Training Guide Vol 2 - Advanced Practice by Surya Ganguly
If one skill decides more games, it’s calculation. Openings fade, plans change—but seeing clearly, comparing lines, and choosing with confidence wins points. In this two-volume course, GM Ganguly turns calculation into a trainable skill with a structured path for any level. You won’t just solve tactics; you’ll learn how to think: where to start, which branches to explore, when to stop, and how to keep a crystal-clear mental board under pressure.
Free video sample: Introduction
Free video sample: Attack & Defence
What’s different: idea-first training (by thinking tools, not random puzzles); tournament mindset (treat every task like a real game); scalable practice (10 minutes or a full session); practical methods (visualization, blind training, decision routines); honest coaching (no miracles - just habits that raise your ceiling).
Volume 2 - Advanced Practice & Tournament Simulation: Stress-test your skills with attack & defense labs, long calculations (8-12 moves deep), and imaginative positions that reveal hidden resources. Mixed tests simulate real-game pressure - no hints, just decisions. Learn how psychology, emotion, and mindset influence calculation, with anecdotes from GM Ganguly’s own battles against elite players.
Who is it for?
• Club players who want a clear, progressive path to better calculation.
• Ambitious improvers who prefer methods over miracles.
• Tournament players who need game-realistic training to cut blunders and convert advantages.
Ready to make better decisions at the board - consistently?
Train the skill that never goes out of style.
- Fritztrainer App for Windows and Mac
- Available as download or on DVD
- Video course with a running time of approx. 4-8 hrs.
- Repertoire database: save and integrate Fritztrainer games into your own repertoire (in WebApp Opening or in ChessBase)
- Interactive exercises with video feedback: the authors present exercises and key positions, the user has to enter the solution. With video feedback (also on mistakes) and further explanations.
- Sample games as a ChessBase database.
- New: many Fritztrainer now also available as stream in the ChessBase video portal!
- Videos can run in the Fritztrainer app or in the ChessBase program with board graphics, notation and a large function bar
- Analysis engine can be switched on at any time
- Video pause for manual navigation and analysis in game notation
- Input of your own variations, engine analysis, with storage in the game
- Learn variations: view specific lines in the ChessBase WebApp Opening with autoplay, memorize variations and practise transformation (initial position - final position).
- Active opening training: selected opening positions are transferred to the ChessBase WebApp Fritz-online. In a match against Fritz you test your new knowledge and actively play the new opening.
- The database with all games and analyses can be opened directly.
- Games can be easily added to the opening reference.
- Direct evaluation with game reference, games can be replayed on the analysis board
- Your own variations are saved and can be added to the own repertoire
- Replay training
- LiveBook active
- All engines installed in ChessBase can be started for the analysis
- Assisted Analysis
- Print notation and diagrams (for worksheets)
Sample video
Contents
- Introduction
- Attack & Defence
- Example 1: Jumabayev - Ganguly & Anand - Ganguly
- Example 2: Shirov - Kramnik
- Example 3: Ganguly - Markov
- Long Calculation
- Example 1: Karjakin - Vachier-Lagrave
- Example 2: Sandipan - Shyam
- Example 3: Tal - Olafsson
- Example 4: Svidler - Kramnik
- Example 5: Ganguly - Svidler
- Example 6: Wei Yi - Karjakin
- Imagination & Unusual Moves
- Example 1: Short - Miles
- Example 2: Xu Jun - Ivanchuk
- Example 3: Fischer - Schweber
- Example 4: Polugaevsky - Korchnoi
- Example 5: Aronian - Duda
- Mixed Exercises
- Example 1: Saduakassova - Ganguly
- Example 2: Ganguly - Nguyen
- Example 3: Judit composition
- Example 4: Position 1
- Example 5: Position 2
- Example 6: Ganguly - Wang
- Example 7: Ganguly - Le Quang
- Outro
- Extra Exercises
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