You're going to have to consciously think about not blundering away material at every move.
After awhile it should become an ingrained habit and hopefully your game will become smoother but it won't be easy.
Backgammon player learning chess
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Jan 21, 2017
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It will be very difficult to implement your positional ideas without tactical skill.
You're going to have to consciously think about not blundering away material at every move.
After awhile it should become an ingrained habit and hopefully your game will become smoother but it won't be easy.
You're going to have to consciously think about not blundering away material at every move.
After awhile it should become an ingrained habit and hopefully your game will become smoother but it won't be easy.
tl;dr: Former Backgammon player is good at positional play but bad at tactics. How to improve?
My kids are fascinated by chess and so I started teaching them. My chess abilities are limited but should be sufficient for many months (years?) to come. As a strong backgammon player I would have preferred to teach them backgammon, but for now I have shifted my attention completely to improving at (and playing) chess.
The basic rules I have known since my childhood, I have regularly solved puzzles in newspapers but I have never been a good player. To improve I got my hands on some textbooks, i.e.
The endgame book I have put aside for the moment because I either get crushed before getting there or win the endgame easily against a weaker opponent.
The positional and strategic thinking in "Reassess" feels quite natural to me, even obvious. I believe that this is due to my backgammon background.
But it turns out that I have quite some difficulties to grasp tactics. I can solve most puzzles in Nunn's book but it takes me up to 20 minutes. In addition to that I solve tactics at ChessTempo, but my rating won't break the 1200 barrier. I solve many difficult puzzles (given enough time), gaining points, and then blunder at easy ones, losing many points.
Could some other backgammon players comment on this?
How should I continue to improve my tactics?
And, in the long term, how can i utilize my seemingly good understanding of positional play?