What is chess tactics?

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cattheory

I see a lot of people saying that practicing chess tactics is a good idea. Is the puzzle section on chess.com tactics? What is the best place to practice chess tactics?

ChesswithGautham

LiChess puzzles or if you have premium cc puzzle section.

cattheory
ChesswithGautham wrote:

LiChess puzzles or if you have premium cc puzzle section.

What is cc puzzle section? What does cc stand for?

ChesswithGautham

Chess.com

cattheory
ChesswithGautham wrote:

Chess.com

do you think lichess or chess.com is better for puzzles

ChesswithGautham

Depends if you have premium.

AtaChess68
Examples of tactics: a pin, a fork, a discovered attack.

There are around 36 of them to know. You train tactics by doing puzzles (or by loosing games). Because people train tactics by doing puzzles those puzzles are often referred to as ‘tactics’.