"Chess is 99% tactics(calculations)"

@Sarg0n said in #3:
> If it were 99% strategy you would win almost every game by choosing the right plan, small details won’t matter. Rings true or false?

True,
a good strategist have a keen sense of positional analysis and sees deep to anticipate and create critical points – so, tactics. there is so much everything and anything at the opening that as even Magnus managed to do, you can play a disaster opening provided you don't weaken your position too much, and then you just have to offer your opponent the opportunity to blunder

@EmaciatedSpaniard said in #11:
> there's something to be said for the IP's argument that capability in one game like Shogi or Go transfers to another game like chess. Its not so obvious that this should work, but it apparently does. That implies that tactics and calculation ability get you a long way. Ofcourse if you want to compete at the highest levels (GMs etc) then you need every last advantage to compete. Openings and knowledge of strategic goals in different settings as very helpful then.

i believe that the transfer from shogi to chess works better than from chess to shogi. Habu is one of the best shogi player ever and he has a fide Elo of approximatley 2400 and is FM. He only played 2 years chess as a hobby, he still focused on shogi of course.
It makes sense for me, the tactics in shogi are insane so a shogi player should easily understand chess tactics. Then learn something about pawn structures and you are a damn good chess player for doing nothing.

Chess is 99% psychology...A player with the "right mentality" can almost do whatever he/she wants with the game and gonna win. Not matter how good the player are with knowledge about tactics, if the mentality isnt there then the player are gonna lose.
examples of gamese i've played, long time ago.
Game 1;
In this game i followed my intuicion...i let my queen been pinned, so i had to move the queen but then my opponent winning my rook. I calculated this, and i will get compensations with counterplay. Why he didnt played that move? He got psyched out? He didnt see it? Anyway that move was the only move who's not losing. He blundered, then it wasnt interested more so i offered draw (gentlemansagreement). How many players in the world would let them be pinned with purpose? Would Magnus or other players see it and concidered that move that i've played?
Was my move pure tactical move, or it was a psychological move? I mean it's both!


Game 2;

In this game i wanted to challenge myself, about everything - tactical, positional, mentality, sacrificing, strategies...everything - before move 1, against stronger opponent.
This was a experiment and my first attempt to do it...i decided to saq sevelral pieces, including my queen to have a advantage in the game.
My game wasnt brilliant tactically from my point of view, all i wanted were to outplay my opponent by pure psychology.
Unfortunetely she was very greedy...and all i wanted to do were to get some lines...if she played clinical against me i would be destroyed, but anyway it wanst easy for her trough the game. I was very patient with my play.
I just wanted to demonstrate that theory doesnt mean everything...and that's why also Magnus often playing unorthodox and are behind in the opening, just to outplay his opponents in the middlegame/endgame....You can play chess in different ways...but i call this for 99% psychology rather than 99% tactical, by human aspect. Chess are like poker, sometimes you can bluff, and sometimes it works other times it doesnt work. If you only follow theory all the time it ony means that you "playing safe" Thats it.
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Tactics can be raised to some level, but it's still mostly genetics. You can either see the tactics or you can't. You see, friends, Mercedes is still better than Grandpa's wreck, no matter how you improve this wreck. So think about it. Again, you can improve your tactics, but to some level.

@DeepHuman_95 said in #22:
> i believe that the transfer from shogi to chess works better than from chess to shogi. Habu is one of the best shogi player ever and he has a fide Elo of approximatley 2400 and is FM. He only played 2 years chess as a hobby, he still focused on shogi of course.
> It makes sense for me, the tactics in shogi are insane so a shogi player should easily understand chess tactics. Then learn something about pawn structures and you are a damn good chess player for doing nothing.
Shogi have nothing to do with chess directly...it only means that a one of Japans best Shogi player are smart in general because of logical sence. Of course that person have very good statepoint to be a good chessplayer...A person with example 70 level of iq cant be very good in chess, its simpel.
Its not all about pawnstructure and theory to be good in chess, its all about universial understanding (example practical play) for chess that makes you good.
-"modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure, forget it checkmate ends the game" - Nigel Short

@Cs1xlly said in #1:
> i think many of us chess player once in their career heard this quote before, and im pretty sure most of us arent really affirmative about this. however, im actually starting to think that this quote isnt completely wrong, its just little bit too exaggerated for someone to believe it is actually true.
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> i know a person who is an experienced shogi player who is 2100 lichess blitz, and he knows almost nothing about chess. even from my level i can tell that his opening and endgame knowledge are below bare minimum for his level, and he also makes lots of anti-positional moves that is pretty evident.
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> but despite his lack of chess knowledge, he still sits in the top 5% of the lichess population because of the calculation and tactical skill cultivated by playing shogi. its not just him, there are handful of pro shogi player who is also fide title holder that never takes chess seriously.
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> stuff like opening, endgames and strategical/positional chess are certainly one of the important aspects in chess. however, this makes me think that perhaps the significance that these things bring into the actual games are way less than people think compared to tactics.
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> i would like to know how you guys think about this topic.

I had a bit of this effect when starting crazyhouse again, I stopped two years ago and I forgot everything... but thanks to my standard skills, I was able to reach a modest but sure 1900

@Devil_fish said in #25:
> Shogi have nothing to do with chess directly...it only means that a one of Japans best Shogi player are smart in general because of logical sence. Of course that person have very good statepoint to be a good chessplayer...A person with example 70 level of iq cant be very good in chess, its simpel.
> Its not all about pawnstructure and theory to be good in chess, its all about universial understanding (example practical play) for chess that makes you good.
> -"modern chess is too much concerned with things like pawn structure, forget it checkmate ends the game" - Nigel Short

Thank you for the quote from Nigel Short. That even confirms my assumption. In that case, it's even easier for a shogi player to be good at chess.
Of course, shogi and chess are different games, but they have also a lot in common, especially when it comes to tactical motives.

@DeepHuman_95 said in #27:
> Thank you for the quote from Nigel Short. That even confirms my assumption. In that case, it's even easier for a shogi player to be good at chess.
> Of course, shogi and chess are different games, but they have also a lot in common, especially when it comes to tactical motives.
Im not into Shogi...i just watched a dokumentary obout it. My point is that if you are a strategic as person and good at compete in general than you have a better advantage than other players, in example Shogi, chess, poker, billiard and so on. No matter how good you are with the stick and potted balls, if you dondt are a strategic/tactical and technician player you will lose in the long run. I concidered myself not so good in chess because its too complicated but im doing ok in billiard, and im better at poker than chess. Example now in christmas i played poker (several yrs last time) but once again i finished in the top with 2nd place. Often im ending in top spots. I have good gutfeeling, you need that in example poker and chess. Once i played cashgame - i called 500 dollars all in preflop, and readed my opponent to AQ, and said out loudly what he prolly had while i had AK.He showed AQ... i won that hand. When you are stratetic and are tactical plus good intuicion than you also coming long with chess in general. I have never studied chess, but if had, plus played chess from i was kid, maby i would be good at chess but i havent that statepoint. Youre friend have that statepoint that he also are strategic and tacical player, because he is smart in general. A smart person are a fast learner. Thats's why example GM's are GM's because of the ability to learn alot and memorizing, but also smartness. You cant read and read to be a GM, you must have it latentely.

@Kovalchuk94 said in #24:
> Tactics can be raised to some level, but it's still mostly genetics. You can either see the tactics or you can't. You see, friends, Mercedes is still better than Grandpa's wreck, no matter how you improve this wreck. So think about it. Again, you can improve your tactics, but to some level.

I don't actually agree with this. Humans are not cars which are objects with hard set limits, we as humans have the ability to change and adapt. Plus 90% of tactics are simple pattern recognition which anyone can master through practice.

@Super_dino341 said in #29:
> I don't actually agree with this. Humans are not cars which are objects with hard set limits, we as humans have the ability to change and adapt. Plus 90% of tactics are simple pattern recognition which anyone can master through practice.

You may disagree.This is your opinion, but I tell you this from my own experience. You can entertain these illusions. All right, become a world champion or a top-level grandmaster.