How do i improve tactically?

Candidate moves: checks, captures, threats

You have to watch tactic videos and memorize
them

@aradhya_gpta said in #3:

I'm great at puzzles but I find it hard to apply them in real games...
yes you have to take a position in a game as a pazzle

I don't know how you improved so well tactically. Can't even guess ...

Normally the problem is not all tactics in general. It tends to be just a few. Example:
https://lichess.org/training/fork

Look at your own tactical weakness using the link below ....
https://lichess.org/training/dashboard/30/dashboard

Then use the link below to find the name of the tactic you were weak in.
https://lichess.org/training/themes

You now see the feature to fix your tactical weakness. Any more questions? @aradhya_gpta

Play classical. Learn strategy of different pieces and the game as a whole. Tactics will arise from good strategic play... in classical you will have time to calculate.

@aradhya_gpta said in #1:

How do i improve tactically?
A 7-step process to get better at chess tactics
Learn the tactical pattern. ...
Solve puzzles on a specific tactic. ...
Solve puzzles on different tactical themes. ...
Study the Mating Patterns. ...
Understand the mistakes you make & work there. ...
Study from different sources. ...
Practice to keep your tactics sharp. Please try to not lose your pieces. Draw circles around the board like pyramid walls , those arrows should go around the board in a square . You must listen to the points and watch and memorize the games and tactic videos. Learn from your mistakes. Remember "Mistakes are the staircases to success" So never give up when you lose. Ok?
What are tactics?
In chess, a tactic is a sequence of moves that each makes one or more immediate threats – a check, a material threat, a checkmating sequence threat, or the threat of another tactic – which culminates in the opponent's being unable to respond to all of the threats without making some kind of concession.

"I'm great at puzzles but I find it hard to apply them in real games..."

You're not great. Above average maybe, but not great. 3040 might just be great.

In addition to everything else posted in this forum (which I think is extremely valuable and instructive), I would also like to recommend reading the book about the woodpecker method of training tactics. It had helped strong players (including some GMs to get good at tactics)

I'm not sure I have a great answer to this, but it seems to me that you need to (1) be aware of lots of patterns and know they exist and (2) be able to calculate that they work in a given position.

(1) There are lots of way to become familiar with tactical patterns. One of the best is probably analyzing your own games, because you'll see things that occur over and over in the openings you play, but it's fairly slow. Playing through lots of puzzles exposes you to patterns, but it's important to really see the pattern and not just throw out guesses and move on. If you're not already doing it, you can focus your puzzles by theme. I think it's really good to work extensively on mate in 2 or 3 puzzles, but you can also focus on pins or forks or whatever. There is a great free series on Chessable called "On the Attack" which focuses on individual pieces. I found "Knights on the Attack" extremely helpful, and I've also done the bishop one, but there are also versions on pawns, rooks, and queens I think. You can also buy courses on Chessable for tactics that occur often in a particular opening, which seems like a good way to focus your time, but I've never tried it. Like anything else, I think doing it regularly is important, and also doing things you enjoy, because you always learn that stuff better and more effectively.

(2) Calculation is tied up with tactics and also with visualization. There is a great series on Chessable called "Visualise" that I found very helpful, where you are given a position and have to imagine a series of moves and see the tactic at the end. I think there are now some free websites where you can do the same thing. I had a lot of trouble visualizing even just a few moves ahead and I noticed a huge difference after completing that course. For calculation I found "Forcing Chess Moves" by Charles Hertan very good. It's a collection of well-chosen tactics taken from real games that have a series of forcing moves, so you have to calculate significant combinations. I put together two studies based on that, one with mating attacks and one with just important themes:

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