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Tactics are an essential part of chess. They govern every operation on the chessboard, and nothing happens without tactics being involved.
So you need to master tactics to survive in chess. Otherwise, your pieces will disappear, and your King will always be in the eye of a storm. Or worse, you'll miss chances of making just that to your opponents!
Community author Makkapakka can help you there.
He is the mastermind that brought
Attacking the castled King to Chessable. For his second course, he presents to you
the ultimate tactics compendium for chess beginners.
Not another tactics
This course presents you with
almost 500 tactics puzzles to test your skills and improve your pattern recognition. In the introduction, Makkapakka explains eleven recurring tactical motifs in the same clear way that made his first course so well received. Understanding them will help you when solving the puzzles. But many features make it different from your regular tactics course.
First, the puzzles are
not too hard.
Or they are only as hard as they need to recreate a regular tournament game experience: 2-4 move combinations in the 2100 rating level. So when you train this course, you are preparing to smash those little tactics that
decide games and often go unnoticed.
Do you know what else happens in your games? That you have to find tactics on your own.
No one is going to whisper at you 'mate in four' or 'that loose Knight is on the same diagonal as the King.' This course is the same. The puzzles contain no hint. It's only you and your ability to find the winning shot, just like in a tournament game. It's challenging, but
the results will show in your games.
How to use this course
The puzzles do come organized by strength. Yes, in a real-life game, no one is telling you how hard you need to think. That's why there's a chapter with puzzles of different levels of difficulty randomly mixed. So you can reproduce the sensation of tournament conditions to its utmost.
Anyway, strength is a confusing concept. Some may find the easy puzzles difficult, and some may find the hard ones easy.
So challenge yourself!Set the timer faster and see if you can achieve 100% accuracy.
Also, you can use these puzzles for warm-ups before a training session or a game. And here's an insider's advice: if you are a fan of the woodpecker method, change the revision settings to
cyclical. Extra recommended for beginners!
Start as a beginner, solve them like a winner!
