Positional play vs Tactical play
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uomya09
Oct 10, 2018
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1)What is Positional playing in chess?
2)What is Tactical or combinative play in chess?
3)Who were the best positional players?And what are the elements of positional play in chess?
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A positional player is a player that plays positionally.
A tactical player is a player that plays tactially.
The best positional players were the players that played the best chess positionally.
The elements of positional are:
Dmitri Mendeleev, a Russian chemist and inventor, is considered the "father" of the periodic table, according to the Royal Society of Chemistry.
The elements of positional play are the first 4 Transitional metals:
Scandium.
Titanium.
Vanadium.
Chromium.
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DeirdreSkye wrote:
Thanks alot
Trying to improve your position , either by imporoving youe pieces , or by creating wekaneses or by forcing your opponent to badly placed his pieces is positional play.
Trying to attack or gain material with a series of forved or almost forced moves is tactical play.
Good players were always equally good in both positional and tactical play and these 2 can't be separated. Tactical threats many times serve as a way to improve your position and a better position almost always will lead to a tactic.
We separate these 2 when we study chess , we study either tactics or middlegame, but for a good player there is only one type of chess: Correct Chess.
In Simple Chess, GM Michael Stean introduces some positional ideas.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708104258/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review400.pdf
http://store.doverpublications.com/0486424200.html
Two of many possible introductions to tactics:
Winning Chess by Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld (1948)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708093415/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review919.pdf
Back to Basics: Tactics by Dan Heisman (2007)
https://web.archive.org/web/20140708233537/http://www.chesscafe.com/text/review585.pdf
https://www.chess.com/article/view/book-review-back-to-basics-tactics
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