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How to practice middle game besides reading and reviewing master games?
Keep doing the puzzles, chess is 99% tactics.
In the middlegame, you are usually looking at positions you have never seen before, in fact, you are often looking at positions no one has ever seen before, so you have to rely on your own skills.
Sharpening your tactical skills allows you to see further and more precisely, which is very important.
But when precise calculation does not tell you which move is best, you need to rely on strategic ideas to choose between playable moves, and for that you need to study books and annotated games, and play games yourself (long time control is best) and look over them and analyse afterward.
Analysing afterward is important, and that does not mean just looking at the move Stockfish recommends, try to see and understand the reasons why your errors are erroneous, and how you could think better to avoid them.
In the middlegame, you are usually looking at positions you have never seen before, in fact, you are often looking at positions no one has ever seen before, so you have to rely on your own skills.
Sharpening your tactical skills allows you to see further and more precisely, which is very important.
But when precise calculation does not tell you which move is best, you need to rely on strategic ideas to choose between playable moves, and for that you need to study books and annotated games, and play games yourself (long time control is best) and look over them and analyse afterward.
Analysing afterward is important, and that does not mean just looking at the move Stockfish recommends, try to see and understand the reasons why your errors are erroneous, and how you could think better to avoid them.
Chess is not 99% tactics @Allonautilus, for instance I am a positional player, but I still win games. Tactics are important, but so are positional concepts
@GBA87 how can you be a positional player at your level?
I don't claim to be a good positional player, but not enough tactics training and lots of reading and watching videos
i solve most tactic puzzles but in games i dont see it
I see very few tactics in game too, @Reti-Gambit
the thing is i solve nearly all of the puzzles here but in games nothing
what should i do
what should i do
@Reti-Gambit
Then you have an amazing blitz score for someone who doesn't see tactics. What's your secret?
Then you have an amazing blitz score for someone who doesn't see tactics. What's your secret?
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