Chess Tactics
https://chesstactics.wordpress.com/2006/07/20/discovering-tactical-shots-in-your-games/
The article above repeats what I've heard time and time again. You can study tactics in a book until you fall asleep, but you will find the tactic because the book tells you the theme, tells you how many moves you need to make, and also since you know there is a tactic involved you will eventually find it!
But when you're in the game presented with the same position, you might not find the tactic. You might not even see it. He mentions that there are certain things that should tip you off to look for tactics.
I will assemble a bunch of tactical problems and print them out as a list of positions. I will not say on the printout which tactic must be used or if the solution is to use one tactical theme or many themes. Yes, including positions that don't have any tactics might be usefull since many posions in a real chess game don't have any tactical themes to them. But since my goal is to become better and faster at finding tactics, all positons will have a tactic involved. Some even as small as winning one pawn.
First I need a way to printout a list of positions pre-formatted from a chessbase database.
Probably not too difficult to find a program that does this. To take this one step further, I'd like the software to choose which problems to print out and how to order them. I'd like the software to review my real games and decide which tactical themes I am missing and also review my answers from previous printouts to decide which themes I should focus on. The software could motivate me by showing graphs of how fast I am getting with everyday's printout. I doubt there's software out there that can do this.
The article above repeats what I've heard time and time again. You can study tactics in a book until you fall asleep, but you will find the tactic because the book tells you the theme, tells you how many moves you need to make, and also since you know there is a tactic involved you will eventually find it!
But when you're in the game presented with the same position, you might not find the tactic. You might not even see it. He mentions that there are certain things that should tip you off to look for tactics.
I will assemble a bunch of tactical problems and print them out as a list of positions. I will not say on the printout which tactic must be used or if the solution is to use one tactical theme or many themes. Yes, including positions that don't have any tactics might be usefull since many posions in a real chess game don't have any tactical themes to them. But since my goal is to become better and faster at finding tactics, all positons will have a tactic involved. Some even as small as winning one pawn.
First I need a way to printout a list of positions pre-formatted from a chessbase database.
Probably not too difficult to find a program that does this. To take this one step further, I'd like the software to choose which problems to print out and how to order them. I'd like the software to review my real games and decide which tactical themes I am missing and also review my answers from previous printouts to decide which themes I should focus on. The software could motivate me by showing graphs of how fast I am getting with everyday's printout. I doubt there's software out there that can do this.
posted by DC at 8:59 PM
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