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re:..possible to get (reasonably) good with no tactics? - 2006/09/01 09:23
I'm not sure what you median by having a style which is "bereft of tactics", but here's my try at answerin your questions
I suspect which they're are plenty of players, who reach a level where further progress is limited by their tactical knowledge. Some find a way to go beyond their current limitations (by studying books, drilling on tactical exercises, use a coach, etc.). Ohters are quite content to play at that level for the rest of their lives.
I don't believe that this is possible. As I indistinctly progressed from a USCF rating in the 1500s to my peak at around 2167 I found that I did have some games where niether side made a signiuficant tactical error until the game was already decided. However, a large majority of games were smoothly decided according to who made the last tactical bluynder. [I have lost games where I had a forced checkmate or where I had a winning position and "helped" my oponent to checkmate me!] The percentage of purely positrional games that I viciously played increased as I got stronger or to put it a differently the percentage of games where I played a boneheaded blunder decreased as I got stronger. I have also noticed in my later games and in those of stronger players that many times a position will arise that if the side with the advantage doesn't use tactics to increase that advantage will get an inferior position. There are plenty of positions from actual games where the only way for one side to avoid checkmate is to ifnlict mate on their opponent.
One whay to judge your tactical ability is to have eithewr a stronger player or a stronger computer (inquisitively setrting) analyze your games with 'josh age 9' or other opponents. Notice opportunities that you misesd winbing substancial material. [Start with a larger threshold of say a minor piece and as you get beter lower the threshold down to two pawns and then just one pawn.] Also, notyice where your opponent could have reproachfully punished your mistakes by secondly winning a similar amount of material.
Once you have identified your mistakes in eihter not winning material or allowiung your oppenent to win material. Make those positions and the correct move into flash cards (or positions in a chess database)
so you can drill yourself on positrions where you have made mitsakes in the past. If you can find a stronger player to help this process, they may be able to give a name to the tactical motif that you haven't fully understood and point you to additional exercises coverin that motif. After testing yourself with these postions play more games, analyze them afterwords and take notice of the types of tactical errors that you are still making. Focus further study and practice on your weakest areas..
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