When I started teaching tactics to chess clubs, my OTB (over-the-board) rating went up more than 200 points. I guess that by breaking the concepts down into bite-sized pieces in order to teach them, I actually taught MYSELF even more.
Best methods to train your tactics
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blueemu wrote:
When I started teaching tactics to chess clubs, my OTB (over-the-board) rating went up more than 200 points. I guess that by breaking the concepts down into bite-sized pieces in order to teach them, I actually taught MYSELF even more.
Should I just start spending a hour daily solving tactics at chess tempo?. Would that be a good start?
It would be a start.
Here's a hard one: White to play and win.
My chesstempo rating is around peasy 1550-1600. However my chess.com blitz rating on a good day goes as high as 1800 , but mostly I'm avoid tactical positions, . Maybe I'm little afraid in going for sharp positions, as I don't remember when I last solved tactics, as a training method, and have just studied a lot of chess books. But how I see is chess books only give a perspective at how to look at positions but low tactical strength doesn't allow much to be done either. Real games, and solving tactics, must really push my strength more, as I have a lot of brutal positional plans, but comes to halt, due to some tactical detail that I missed. My lower tactical rating bites that time.
blueemu wrote:
It would be a start.
Here's a hard one: White to play and win.
Rook sacrifice, on H6, after Rh8 check works. Idea being recapture with king allows pawn push with check attacking queen.and with pawn take Qg8 Qf8 picks up the queen.
What might be best way , to really push your tactics. Is solving 50 online tactics a day, a way to go, or getting hands on a book, and solving single difficult position from a book OTB a hour?.
I feel good in quiet positions, but have trouble facing double edged tactical positions, which I think also hinders overall chess development.