The best moves in chess are often about setting up a safe, consolidated position and preparing to unleash a future attack. Chessoculars is a training tool to help you improve your "chess vision"—your ability to find vulnerabilities in your own position or spot those that your opponent has.
Chessoculars provides game review functionality that also finds exercises while you review, like those in the examples below.
Finding forks
In this example, could you find a way for black to move twice in a row to fork a couple high-value pieces?
Chessoculars has several different fork-finding exercises like this, with progressive hints for mistakes, to help you spot possibilities from both sides of the board.
Protection
In this example, the pawn on f2 is currently protected, with two defenders (g1, d4) and one attacker (e5). However, black can add one more attacker and force away a defender at the same time to win the pawn. Do you see how?
Evaluating piece protection is a seemingly simple task, but one which players regularly mess up even at 1800+ Elo. Chessoculars has exercises to hone your ability to quickly and accurately spot these vulnerable pieces.
And more!
Chessoculars links to a certain popular online chess site so you can import your games, review them, and do exercises from key moments in your games. Game reviews are unlimited!
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