Dr. Can's Chess Clinic
Your chess doctor! A Candidate Master, FIDE Instructor coupled with a PhD in Cognitive Science, I'm here to diagnose and help solve your chess challenges. This channel is specifically designed to address issues faced by beginner, intermediate, and advanced chess players alike.
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How to Really Tell Whether Doubled Pawns Are Good or Bad (Fischer - Reshevsky, 1962)

How to Punish Time-Wasters in the Opening (Keres & Tal Miniatures)

Hope Is Not a Strategy—And It’s Costing You Games

How to Form Winning Plans by Looking at the Pawn Structure

Spot Alignments and Make Tactics Jump Out at You

My Recommended Order to Study My 11 Chessable Courses (With Previews)

Candidate Moves and Thinking Tools with Karel van Delft and GM Sipke Ernst

The CLAMP Method: Your New Weapon Against Chess Blunders

One Simple Positional Weapon That Destroys Enemy Knights

The Minority Attack Explained: How to Create Weaknesses and Win

How I Took Down an International Master

Why Smyslov Was the True Endgame God

Please Stop Letting This Unseen Threat Ruin Your Games...

10 Strategic Patterns to Master the Nimzo Indian Defense

How to Win in Chess by Controlling the Center

Don’t Look for Tactics. Look for THIS First.

How ‘Natural’ Moves Ruin Endgames—and How to Calculate Instead

The Simple Mental Checklist That Stops Chess Blunders

This King’s Indian Idea Has Been Winning for 72 Years

The Catalan Blueprint: 3 Winning Positional Patterns

Think the Slav Is Boring? This Swedish GM Will Change Your Mind

Alekhine’s Genius Move Exposes the Truth About Human Chess Thinking

If You Hate Facing the London, Learn These 7 Winning Patterns

Why Owning the Center Wins — Even Without Checkmate!

Build a Winning Slav Structure: One Key Pattern You Must Know

Lost in the Middlegame? The Winning Plan Is in the Pawn Chain

How to Unlock Locked Pawn Structures and Launch a Winning Attack

Kasparov’s Amazing Bishop Zigzag Stuns Korchnoi | A King’s Indian Classic

Raising Your Chess Floor Starts With This Simple Habit