How improve at tatics

@Juanxadez25 said in #1:

Hello, I'm having a hard time with tactics in general (I'm pretty bad at it honestly), what's the best way to improve tactics, besides the basics (looking for checks, threats and captures and creating problems), both in games and in puzzles?
You seem to be "the logical type" after all with only 2403 games played in 4 years you are at 1900 which doesn't indicate you are ""bad at Chess" or the next Prodigy but some where on your journey to over 2000 but you feel tactics are your weak point . Maybe reading some chess books like Plan Like A GM by Suetin which contains hundreds of games 25 moves or less would help you & Steve Giddons Chess Book The Most Exciting Chess Games Ever ... Other Classics include The Art Of Attack In Chess by Vukovic , The Art Of Sacrifice In Chess by R Speilman & a nother by Leoniod Shamcovich ... Also Plan To Attack was easy reading by Gary Lane Good Luck on your Journey in Chess Some of these books are "dinosaurs" so you don't need to read every page feel free to explore tactics & the strategy behind them ... Another Chess book is The Art Of Defense in Chess by Andrew Soltis which helped me many years ago explores important questions as well as the Suetin Book

Hounarable mention My Best Games Of Chess by Alexander A Alekhine also Sixty memorable games by Bobby Fischer ...

you need to just study tactic books and you will be better at tactics!!!!

Your puzzle rating is a whole lot more consistent than my own but more or less we are similar. As far as I'm concerned, it really comes down to two things. Am I able to see the tactic without looking for it and how big is chess in the overall picture of my life. If there's a bunch of people out there who are willing to put in 500% as much work as I am, then I should not feel bad that they play chess better than I do. There's no shame in that, and you have to just accept that fact. Don't spend your time boohooing about how bad you are or that you make mistakes, everybody makes mistakes in this game if they're not cheating.

It's normal for everybody who plays chess to think they should be improving much faster or should have achieved a greater level already or whatever. It's nonsense. The trouble with chess and with especially online chess, is that no matter how much you improve you end up getting paired with people at the same level. So you feel like you've done nothing. You've gone from 1200 to 1800 and golly g, I'm not winning every game. Well, no kidding? You keep getting paired with stronger players as you play stronger. This game might be the most cruel game on the planet. What you have to understand is that you are progressing and that your progression has absolutely nothing to do with your win loss ratio. Once you figure that out, you'll be fine.

@V1g1yy said in #14:

Are you playing chess somewhere? Don't get me wrong: I just don't see your games. Any.

@Sandy1966-05 said in #15:
I play some OTB locally, unsanctioned, as there's no organized chess here. That's it for me. I tried to revive an old local club here, even procured a venue to play in, but that never worked out, mostly because the last person who ran it was a thief and stole membership money from the folks instead of sending it to the USCF. A lawyer no less (or so I was told)
My nearest organized chess is in Allentown PA, 3 hours away. I can only do that so much before the cost and time becomes a serious liability. I gave up on online chess a couple years ago and I don't know if I'll ever take it back up. I have no idea why it seems to matter so much to some people. Would it make some difference? Why do you care?

Tactics are kinda easy, just try more puzzles, also try tactical puzzles in openings u play, also, if tactics don't suit you, why not try to play positionally?

@ThunderClap said in #11:

You seem to be "the logical type" after all with only 2403 games played in 4 years you are at 1900 which doesn't indicate you are ""bad at Chess" or the next Prodigy but some where on your journey to over 2000 but you feel tactics are your weak point . Maybe reading some chess books like Plan Like A GM by Suetin which contains hundreds of games 25 moves or less would help you & Steve Giddons Chess Book The Most Exciting Chess Games Ever ... Other Classics include The Art Of Attack In Chess by Vukovic , The Art Of Sacrifice In Chess by R Speilman & a nother by Leoniod Shamcovich ... Also Plan To Attack was easy reading by Gary Lane Good Luck on your Journey in Chess Some of these books are "dinosaurs" so you don't need to read every page feel free to explore tactics & the strategy behind them ... Another Chess book is The Art Of Defense in Chess by Andrew Soltis which helped me many years ago explores important questions as well as the Suetin Book

I will try to look for these books, thank you :D

but honestly I don't know what my weak point would be, but some friends of mine with a higher rating than me (2200-2300) say that it's just about doing tactics, so maybe that's it (without much idea of what to do to reach that level)

@V1g1yy said in #14:

Your puzzle rating is a whole lot more consistent than my own but more or less we are similar. As far as I'm concerned, it really comes down to two things. Am I able to see the tactic without looking for it and how big is chess in the overall picture of my life. If there's a bunch of people out there who are willing to put in 500% as much work as I am, then I should not feel bad that they play chess better than I do. There's no shame in that, and you have to just accept that fact. Don't spend your time boohooing about how bad you are or that you make mistakes, everybody makes mistakes in this game if they're not cheating.

It's normal for everybody who plays chess to think they should be improving much faster or should have achieved a greater level already or whatever. It's nonsense. The trouble with chess and with especially online chess, is that no matter how much you improve you end up getting paired with people at the same level. So you feel like you've done nothing. You've gone from 1200 to 1800 and golly g, I'm not winning every game. Well, no kidding? You keep getting paired with stronger players as you play stronger. This game might be the most cruel game on the planet. What you have to understand is that you are progressing and that your progression has absolutely nothing to do with your win loss ratio. Once you figure that out, you'll be fine.

thanks, this tip is very good, but honestly I have more problems with losses in face-to-face games.
I really like chess, being part of the men's team in my city I have to improve a lot to try to achieve something playing, unfortunately

looked like to me you are more "serious minded" than most but talented who knows ? Just Study & Play Play Play Play & Study Chess, play Chess good luck' @Juanxadez25