People over-rating the importance of chess tactics?
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Razor_Tactics wrote:
A GM once told me .Shut your fat face and listen to this and youll be better then anyone.If chess were a car,The openings would be the paint job.The body would be the position (ie) structure.The endgame would be the wheels that which determins the ultimate direction you will land in or end up in.The steering wheel would be your mind trying to keep all this crap going at once.But tactics,tactics my friend is your engine!The more you studdy the bigger that son of a b@#$ch gets.Ultimately tactics is your chess engine deciding just how powerful you are at driving.Without the engine the car just sits ,paintjob weeellll you can win without openings Tires yes endgames matter alot .Body of car yes positional is great but wont beat a moped withouth the engine.He went to jail in 1973 as a 1700 player his wife bought him 1 book the encyclopedia of middlegame combinations 2788 combinations 2 to 13 moves deep,when he got out in 1976 his rating was 2325 he said if he even smelled a combination BOOM !!game over lol true story He said the rest of the challenge was understanding strategy and endgame yes but he said he was studyind those topics for 23 years and only made it to 1700 so you tell me whats more important
i think that not only emphasizes the importance of tactics but also the advantages of going to jail 
For me, tactics are the most important part of the game. Tactics make you a good defender and a good attacker. Tactics make your brain more active, quick and sharp. They also make you look for opportunities over the basic principles and with a reverse engineering system and the question "If only this was there and this wasn't there", you find the easy juicy plan to crush the opponent without even knowing any theory of the middle game. At any stage of the game (except endings with one or no piece), even when you are losing, if you can create problems to solve to your opponent with tactics, you can come back for a draw or even a win if he/she doesn't understand what you are doing.