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chess is 99% tactics !!!!!

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What many people call 'positional' play is actually based on an understanding and anticipation of tactics. Examples: I push the pawn to h3 to prevent the opponent pinning my knight. In other words, an awareness of possible tactics motivated a move that you might call positional (but that I see as part of tactics)
Or, black moves the rook to the half open file where the white queen is sitting. It's a possible tactic that motivated the move.
I would include under "tactics" such common things as, I open 1.e4 so that I can use the tactic of exd5 or exf5 if my opponent advances a pawn to those squares, plus it helps me set up the possible tactic of Bc4 followed by Bxf7, or maybe even Qh5+

Reading GM analysis of a game, I often encounter a GM justifying a 'positional' move by explaining the possible tactic he or she is preventing or setting up. Of course, I never saw that possible tactic, so I would have no reason to make the 'positional' move. If I could anticipate or foresee the hidden tactics, and make great positional moves.

Looked at that way, chess moves are 100% tactics, in terms of awareness. Of course there are also the factors of focus, concentration, fatigue, distraction, and so on. Calculating ability and pattern recognition I would include under awareness of tactics.
Like the chicken and the egg, it merely depends on how you look at it. Or semantics, how you define the terms.
No. 30% mistakes and blunders , 60 % tactics and 10 % checks .
Heresy:

Does the percentage number change anything important of the way you're playing chess?
#27
Yes, it means you should always take time to look for tactics: your tactics, tactics from your opponent, opening tactics, middlegame tactics, endgame tactics.
#16
@Sarg0n Richard Teichmann died in 1925... doubt he said that computers taught him chess is full of tactics
#29
Teichmann said: "Chess is 99% tactics"
Engines now prove he was right.

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