Daily Chess Training: Chess Tactics - Volume 1

Sharpen your tactical ability daily on your way to mastery

Are you ready to seriously improve your game? It has been said that chess is 99% tactics but whether that is an accurate reflection is hard to tell. Nevertheless, it is important.

But if you are like most players, you only discover the tactics after you come home and run through your game with a chess engine. So what to do?

In this popular trainer now brought to on Chessable, the prolific chess author FM Carsten Hansen presents a structured course of 404 tactical challenges.

Up your tactical radar - as well as your calculation

Unlike most tactics puzzle trainers, you don't know what your objective is: do I need to find a mate, find an opportunity skewer or pin a piece, use a tactical turn to gain a positional advantage and how far do I need to calculate?

These are questions you are faced with when you play your own games and therefore this course tries to replicate this position.

Your one advantage over the players in the respective positions is that you know that there is supposed to be something in there for you to find.

FM Hansen's puzzles vary widely in difficulty, some are relatively easy, some are incredibly difficult, and the majority are somewhere in between.

However, most of the puzzles are layered so that even when you think the answer is obvious, it is worth looking further because your idea may be the decoy left there for you to get distracted from the actual solution.

Working through the puzzles and then carefully play through the thoroughly annotated solutions will help you to up your tactical radar as well as your calculation skills.

So if you are up for the challenge, here is the opportunity to take the leap forward. Good luck!