I did about 100 hours of chess.com tactics, I say it helped me with tactics and being aware of tactics my opponents may have.
Most Recent
Forum Legend
Following
New Comments
Locked Topic
Pinned Topic
Greetings to all the members of the Chess.com community. I firmly believe that the topic under discussion in this post is a widespread dilemma for most chess players who aspire to climb the rating ladder. To introduce myself, I am a 1400-rated player in the Rapid format on Chess.com and around 800 in both Bullet and Blitz.
While analyzing my games, I could clearly tell that I let most of my games slip away mainly by allowing simple tactical blunders or by failing to capitalize on the tactical errors made by my opponents. It is undoubtedly a frustrating experience for any chess amateur (including me) to observe this trend sooner or later. When after learning a few mainline variations in commonly played openings and gambits, and after reading the book "How to Reassess Your Chess, 4th Edition" to develop a deeper understanding of chess strategy, you go on to continuously blunder simple forks and pins, game after game.
Therefore, I would really like for the members who are reading this post here and who have most likely faced a similar issue in their chess career to suggest me a proper and rigorous chess curriculum, which may a sequence of books on tactics to be read by me, few online studies, or something along those lines. Additionally, I would prefer if the suggestions were mostly books or online courses which are reasonably affordable instead of chess coaches.
I aim to attain a 2000 rating in the Rapid format and around 1200 in Blitz and Bullet by the end of this year. I believe that your suggestions shall be the most valuable step in realizing this aim. Thank you in advance guys.