Can Kabadayi/ Cognitive scientist, Candidate master, Chess coach, Proud Chessable Author of the Year 2024
Joined June 2012
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Feeling incredibly grateful to be a 4× winner at the 2025 Chessable Awards 🏆
• Course of the Year – Preventing Blunders in Chess
• Best Presenter
• Best Strategy Course – The Art of Chess
• Best Tactics/Calculation Course – Preventing Blunders in Chess
🥹 Thank you!
How could I answer otherwise, when the Slav course is cooking?
THIS or THAT chess opening with
@DrCanChess 🧠
Somehow the winning one makes a lot of sense.
In the new video, we discuss why recognizing tactical triggers can improve the transfer of puzzle training to practical games. #chess #chesspunks
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In my latest video, I talked about why beginners get overwhelmed by chess, how working memory limitations create cognitive overload, and how stronger players use patterns and chunks to make complex positions easier to understand. #chess #chesspunks #workingmemory Video below.
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The winning plan leverages the g-file's control:
1.h4 (with the idea of Rg5-Rf5+ and winning the e5-pawn) h6 and then 2.h5! (supporting Rg6+ and Rxh6)
From The Fundamentals of Positional Play, the new course by Dr. Can Kabadayi @DrCanChess
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The Chess Doc is back! ♟️🧠
Award-winning author & cognitive scientist Can Kabadayi returns with a new course: the prelude to his epic "The Art of..." series!
Dr. Can knows how people get better at things. He's taken himself from 0 to 2153 Elo as an adult...
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My new @chessable course, The Foundational Concepts of Positional Play, is out now!
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If positional chess often feels vague or like guesswork, this course gives you a practical framework for knowing what to do when there are no obvious tactics.
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The course is built around a simple framework for positional decision-making, with two fundamental skills at its core:
1. Weakness awareness: identifying the real weaknesses in the opponent’s position, creating new targets, and eliminating weaknesses in your own position.
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In the last video, we talked about hindsight bias and how it may affect our game analysis with the engine.
Another instructive video by @DrCanChess about: Here’s how to train chess so you see the results in your games. youtu.be/R31cBu9fcYI?si=Cmca…
In the latest video, we discussed interleaving and its advantages over blocked practice, ending with a little training tip that might have been useful for Shaquille O’Neal. #chess #chesspunks
Video below.
In the latest video in my educational psychology series, I explore why even good chess advice can be useless and how to turn it into a practical thinking tool you can actually use during your games.
Video below. #chess #chesspunks #cognitivescience
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@DrCanChess Real good one for me (and maybe also for you?)! Very nice video: How to Find the Real Cause of Your Chess Mistakes youtu.be/R6m1pr3Iv_Q?si=IouE… via @YouTube
Episode 3.
Nice instructive and very useful video by @DrCanChess about how learning works. youtu.be/gz6f22aqcic?is=ME1I…
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The difference between passive watching how somebody explains things and really learning your chess stuff. Watch this instructive video by @DrCanChess youtu.be/DzmBgAOheb8?is=L9Zp…
