Do You Know This Pattern? Then You SEE the CHECKMATE!

In this instructional chess game, played on Lichess, Black chooses a Sicilian Defense in the opening, aiming to enter the Dragon Variation.

The goal is not to memorize theory, but to understand the ideas, the typical structures, and above all the tactical patterns that allow you to spot checkmating attacks without having to calculate everything.

This is an ideal game for improving at chess and learning to recognize key patterns, rather than getting lost in endless variations.

What is a pattern in chess?

A pattern is a position, an idea, or a piece configuration that appears frequently and triggers an almost automatic reaction in experienced players.

👉 You don’t calculate first
👉 You recognize something you’ve seen before

Patterns are different from calculation:

Calculation = analyzing variations one by one

Pattern = recognizing a familiar situation

👉 Calculation comes later, to confirm
👉 The pattern tells you where to look

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My name is Marc Quenehen. I’m a French chess coach and the author of several books on strategy. Through this channel, I aim to share my passion with an English-speaking audience by offering educational videos adapted to this language.

Although my voice is translated to make the content more accessible, everything you see is fully original and created by me. My goal is to make strategic chess principles understandable for everyone—beginners and experienced players alike—by covering openings, common traps, positional play, and endgames.

I discovered chess at the age of 19 and had the privilege of studying under Grandmaster Iossif Dorfman, former coach of Garry Kasparov.

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