How improve at tatics

@some-randomdudey said in #17:

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?

playing positional is a good idea, but whether you like it or not there are positions where you need to attack but I'll try

@ThunderClap said in #20:

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

thanks :), but what exactly do I have to study??

@Juanxadez25 You mentioned you would look at some Chess Books

@ThunderClap said in #23:

You mentioned you would look at some Chess Books

Yes, of course, when I can find them, but just reading books will make me better?

In very short, you need to train yourself to notice tactical weaknesses instead of looking for tactics, for example, not double attack but hanging piece, diagonals, files, ranks to the piece without obstacles on the way ( like you don't see pieces and pawns on the diagonals and files) if you train yourself like this you already ahead of 99,99% of players. I have multiple videos about this on my YouTube and Facebook. The links are in my profile. This is a great missing point in traditional chess education... And the best shortcut? Copy everything from me, train till you can do it by your own, improve 10x after that! Reach me out if you want to grow with the Bullet Speed. All bests wishes, keep growing!

@ThunderClap said in #23:

@Juanxadez25 You mentioned you would look at some Chess Books
@Juanxadez25 said in #24:
... Yes, of course, when I can find them, but just reading books will make me better?
"... In order to maximize the benefits of [theory and practice], these two should be approached in a balanced manner. ... Play as many slow games (60 5 or preferably slower) as possible, ... The other side of improvement is theory. ... This can be reading books, taking lessons, watching videos, doing problems on software, etc. ..." - NM Dan Heisman (2002)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140627084053/https://www.chesscafe.com/text/heisman19.pdf
"... [annotated games are] infinitely more useful than bare game scores. However, annotated games vary widely in quality. Some are excellent study material. Others are poor. But the most numerous fall into a third category - good-but-wrong-for-you. ... You want games with annotations that answer the questions that baffle you the most. ..." - GM Andrew Soltis (2010)

@Juanxadez25 said in #24:

Yes, of course, when I can find them, but just reading books will make me better?

There are free downloadable pdf-books available if you go looking for them - they tend to be older books however some are of dubious legality. Example, "1001 Winning Chess Sacrifices and Combinations" by Fred Reinfeld (a classic in it's day and out of copyright).

Alternatively chessking.com website do interactive books courses which are very good value for the content and usually have a rating/testing feedback loop to monitor progress. The course CR-ART x.0 is very highly rated and probably the only pure tactics course you will ever need - you'll need a credit card to purchase as it's a Russian site - roughly themed 2000+ puzzles across a very wide range.

As to whether 'reading' books will make you better? Well they will not make you worst! Really the 'return' on a book is usually directly proportional to the efforts applied, assuming your difficulty is purely tactical.

Personally I believe that having a small subset of puzzles that are expertly chosen and repeatedly drilled (maintained) is probably all I will ever need for pure tactics training - giving what I am likely to deploy in practice. The bigger problem is 'sensing' when a position has tactical potential - and hence why you want a wide range of expertly well-chosen puzzles whose themes become automatic with drilling - rather than the execution of the tactics.

My suggestion : Read the following book:

1. Chess Tactics for Students by Bain

You can access this book in Scribd. com (now Everand. com) by subscribing to that site.

T R Shankar
64worlds.com