Tournament Ready: Tactics

👍 Learn chess with Sarah and Danny!

So you want to have fun playing chess? But you also want get good at chess? And you want to WIN at chess?

Join the Delancey UK Chess Challenge, "The World's Largest Chess Competition", and see if you can get yourself Tournament Ready.

Win badges, bonus points and complete the level!

Some of Britain's best players have played in the UKCC - such as the brilliant Grandmaster David Howell. Maybe one-day people will talk about you like that and YOU will have that title?

WHAT ARE TACTICS?
Tactics are short move sequences that lead to winning material (points), a checkmate or simply a better position. Typical patterns and themes crop up again and again in chess games and these patterns have been given names to remember them by.

Becoming familiar with these patterns so you can instantly recognize them in games is one of the fundamental building blocks of becoming a strong player. Tactics are so important that a strong player once remarked 'Chess is 99% Tactics'.

But... there is work to be done if you want to get there.

We have the solution: join Grandmaster Danny King and WFM Sarah Longson, who have both played for England, for a fun, quick and easy lesson in how to get good at chess.

Sarah and Danny are expert teachers and their course is full of puzzles that you have to solve - and when you've them you can say you know how to checkmate and win!

You will learn the skills you need without even realising it! Finish all four parts of this series and you will be prepared.

Start out on the road to becoming a Grandmaster

You will get to grips with:

✔️ PART 1: Checkmates;
✔️ PART 2: Tactics;
✔️ PART 3: The Endgame;
✔️ PART 4: The Opening.

There are points to win, badges to gain and a leaderboard to get on top of. And our whole plan is to turn you into as strong a chess player as you can get.

We want you beating your friends, family and... beating everyone at the next tournament you enter.

So here is the ultimate guide to lift you from beginner to better in four simple stages and get you Tournament Ready.