Look for tactical opportunities during every move of every game? I don't really understand the question.
How to use tactical strength to your advantage
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The most important/difficult element about learning tactics is pattern recognition. If your know what tactical options are but your failing to make optimal use of them you must
A. Improve your basic fundamentals of chess
B. Practice
Are you relating tactical strength to positional strength?
Lemme think...
IF I understand what you mean correctly then you use tactical strength to gain an arm up regardless of position. Sometimes even docking a huge piece for a gain in position. But since positional chess and tactical chess should, in a perfect world, always go hand-in-hand this question is a bit difficult for me.
If tactical chess is your strength, open with e4 and defend with sicilian and king's indian. Those openings are rich in tactical opportunities. Study endgames. A good combination can get mates, material advantage or better endgame position.
everything is not tactics. you have to put your pieces on sensible squares which means that their potential is maximized. after that, tactical shots can appear or alternatively, a winning endgame can be the result of this.
If you need your tactical strength to win the game for you (assuming opponent is better in all other aspects) then I'd say play for initiative and attack. In general go for open positions (even gambits) and avoid trades.
In between games though work on your other areas so you can play a well rounded game :p
Hmm. Thanks for the comments everyone
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Tactics as Frank J.Marshall said is all about hitting your opponent's hard where they ain't and the #1 cardinal rule to remember is git thar fustest with the mostest men that's the bottom line.
If you want to get better at tactics fast solve lots and lots of checkmates and tactical problems puzzles all kinds through your minds eye without setting them up on a computer or on a chess board again and again and again and then solve some more before you go to bed and maybe dream of them while your sleeping.
Go over the games of tactical players fast like Tal, Marshall,Stein, Spassky, Browne, Capablanca, Nakamura, Shirov, Irina Krush, Judit or Susan Polgar, Alexander Alekhine, Kasparov, Fischer, Pillsbury, Kosteinuk their games are loaded with tactics.
Practice against better players who hit back hard and fight from the first move to the last move to get sharper and learn from experience.
Good luck!
Does anyone have ideas regarding this?
Comments would be much appreciated!