chess is positional and tactical
Chess is all about tactics.
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Jan 24, 2021
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#23
Zjlm1015 a écrit :
Like those points as well, and I notice that I’m playing devils advocate, or as you put it, stubborn.
Cause those sound like the “good principles” that I aforementioned. And there are circumstances where these are not good moves.
Bottom line, I think you’re a prescriptivist and I’m a descriptivist.
Cause those sound like the “good principles” that I aforementioned. And there are circumstances where these are not good moves.
Bottom line, I think you’re a prescriptivist and I’m a descriptivist.
Here a GM ( Sébastien Mazé ) show in many games how to play without any calculations! Only with Positional play! And of course he win them all!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzrqYqwkUZM&t=103s
The thing is, there is no strategy without tactics, you can't say: "Hey! I can force a win because I have my rook on the open file", in order to win you need that material advantage, or that checkmate... And for that you need the tactics...
Basically a positional advantage make tactics lean towards you...
e.g; if you are a tempo up, usually tactics should be winning for you, and this kind of stuff
If you have a knight on an outpost, your opponents need to be careful about a fork
If you have a rook on an open-file, they need to be careful about what they are putting here
etc...
Jan 24, 2021
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#25
chamo2074 a écrit :
The thing is, there is no strategy without tactics, you can't say: "Hey! I can force a win because I have my rook on the open file", in order to win you need that material advantage, or that checkmate... And for that you need the tactics...
Basically a positional advantage make tactics lean towards you...
e.g; if you are a tempo up, usually tactics should be winning for you, and this kind of stuff
If you have a knight on an outpost, your opponents need to be careful about a fork
If you have a rook on an open-file, they need to be careful about what they are putting here
etc...
With some opening like 1.c4 you can play positional without any calculations all the game and win (of course not if your opponents is a lot stronger then you) because you have a lot more good moves right away.
Only positional moves and you can win if you know what you are doing!
Yes, but how do you win? By shuffling your pieces? No tactics are always the point
it’s def a big part
The point is tactics is everything. If you are good at tactics then there is no problem to learn other game aspects. Even if you are you good only at tactics you have your chances in any game anyway. If you suck at tactics you suck at chess without any hope. What is the point to learn strategy if you blunder horribly? When i see i am bad/slow at tactics i know i suck. Tactics is the hardest thing in chess.
Some may find this interesting or perhaps even useful: https://www.chess.com/blog/PixelatedParcel/why-study-tactics
Jan 24, 2021
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#30
Good positional play is based on tactical nuances as the top trainers say. Sometimes small tactics help you to achieve your positional gains. (Jussupow/Dworetzky). So Teichmann‘s 99% is not enough^^
BL4D3RUNN3R wrote:
Good positional play is based on tactical nuances as the top trainers say. Sometimes small tactics help you to achieve your positional gains. (Jussupow/Dworetzky). So Teichmann‘s 99% is not enough^^
I also wanted to highlight this. Tactic is basement of everything else.
Jan 24, 2021
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#32
E.g. Black played positionally excellent by using small tactics.
Like 23. ... Qf5, 24. ... Ne2 and 38. ... g5 among many others.
Jan 24, 2021
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#33
Chess isn't about tactics, it is about "operations": being able to make (legal) moves with your pieces.
[Of course, I am being facetious. All three levels (operations, tactics, and strategy) have their place and are required to win a game of chess. If you don't know how to move pieces, you can not use tactics. If you have a superior strategical position, "tactics will flow from your position"--but if you don't know how to use tactics, you will not be able to cash in on your positional advantage. Et cetera.]
Jan 24, 2021
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#34
Computers have taught us that tactics lurk everywhere. Even in bad positions, undeserved ones, and „random“. Tactics flow from better positions, even so from equal and worse positions.
Jan 24, 2021
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#35
Most games get decided by tactics.
Or blunders.
Actually most games get decided by blunders.
Jan 24, 2021
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#36
@chamo - true, but good strategic play creates tactical opportunities that are easier to spot. If all of your pieces are tied up on bad squares, the tactical opportunities are minimal.
It is *very* often the case that there material equality on the board but according to the evaluation, one side is dead lost based solely on poor strategic decisions. Conversion doesn’t require spotting some complex sequence of moves that wins a piece.
It is *very* often the case that there material equality on the board but according to the evaluation, one side is dead lost based solely on poor strategic decisions. Conversion doesn’t require spotting some complex sequence of moves that wins a piece.
Jan 24, 2021
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#37
Zjlm1015 wrote:
Yes but seeing ahead is tactics. Typically, the most difficult tactic is a 5-6 move sequence.
The length of the sequence is not the only (and perhaps not even the most important) criteria for the difficulty of a tactic. The concluding tactic in Bronstein vs Korchnoi, Moscow vs Leningrad match 1962 is only a few moves deep, but so startling and original that Korchnoi (a 2675 player) missed it completely.
Jan 24, 2021
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#38
Zjlm1015 a écrit :
Yes but seeing ahead is tactics. Typically, the most difficult tactic is a 5-6 move sequence. They had “daily puzzles” for a period of time when they used to call tactics, “tactics”. Now they are called puzzles, and those puzzle increase in difficulty, and the amount of moves in a sequence. I believe that the daily puzzle is from a game with historical prevalence, that includes a 4+ progressing series of moves. Otherwise the scenarios are computer generated. ( which is the sucky option, hope they draw from history).
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positional play is looking ahead and making the best move by understanding the whole board! no tactic involved!
Jan 24, 2021
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#39
Positional play is the art of improving one's own position, while degrading the position of the opponent.
Cause those sound like the “good principles” that I aforementioned. And there are circumstances where these are not good moves.
Bottom line, I think you’re a prescriptivist and I’m a descriptivist.