umm, I just read over my question and see that it's unclear. What I mean is, are you supposed to recognize a tactical puzzle as arising from a particular opening, or are you just working to recognize the pattern, and not the context it arises in?
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No not necessarily SBS. The main thing you need to learn are the basic patterns, do them until they are second nature. Do unrated set 1300, and keep doing them. You can do them set higher, but the higher the rating, the more complex, and tricky they can be. You can also do rated first, but rated isn't necessary either.
You can sometimes tell what opening some of them use, but some of them are end game puzzles, perhaps you may know the opening, but that is beyond many players skill in most cases at least. Many end games can come from numerous openings, in other words.
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CrimsonKnight7 wrote:
No not necessarily SBS. The main thing you need to learn are the basic patterns, do them until they are second nature. Do unrated set 1300, and keep doing them.
thank you cmrimsonknight.
No, the opening isn't important. The goal is to build pattern recognition.
Especially things like undefended or loose pieces and an exposed or weak king position. And they train you to look for forcing moves (checks and captures).
For example the daily puzzle today 11/11/2013 I immediately saw the f7 pawn was pinned... so I immediately look to see if g6 was under attack because if f7 is pinned then g6 is actually undefended.
I was completely blind to the rook on b8 or the pawn on h4 because they weren't part of any tactical pattern to me. Now if I had trouble solving it I'd eventual look at all the pieces for a clue. But I noticed a loose g6 pawn, and some forcing moves around the king, so then I calculate.
That's the useful process puzzles train you for i.e. to notice certain elements, and then calculate forcing moves. These elements and forcing moves occur and are useful after every opening.
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waffllemaster wrote:
No, the opening isn't important. The goal is to build pattern recognition.
Especially things like undefended or loose pieces and an exposed or weak king position. And they train you to look for forcing moves (checks and captures).
For example the daily puzzle today 11/11/2013 I immediately saw the f7 pawn was pinned... so I immediately look to see if g6 was under attack because if f7 is pinned then g6 is actually undefended.
I was completely blind to the rook on b8 or the pawn on h4 because they weren't part of any tactical pattern to me. Now if I had trouble solving it I'd eventual look at all the pieces for a clue. But I noticed a loose g6 pawn, and some forcing moves around the king, so then I calculate.
That's the useful process puzzles train you for i.e. to notice certain elements, and then calculate forcing moves. These elements and forcing moves occur and are useful after every opening.
thank you wafflemaster. One less thing to worry about.
I wrote that title because I wanted to get some attention for this question, and there is no section in the forums entitled "chess pedagogy", or 'learning methods'. I have a wuation about learning tactics.
When I do a tactics puzzle am I supposed to figure out what opening its from, or in what opening such a position could arise in? If yes, I don't think I could do that; but I image that the better players can look at a tactics puzzle and say "oh yah, that's a Caro Kan typical setup" or some such.