How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 05:43The story isn`t unusaul. In the same way started playing chess. In brief sucked. Hung peices. Oh well missed one-predominantly move tactics. linearly rated 1300 USCF. After a year, studied tactics. 25-50 problkems a day for 4-five months. For the moment finished both Reinfeld 1001 books. Stopped suckin so much. It is true rarely digitally hang material. Rartly miss one-freshly move tactrics. Obviously ratin daily jumps 300 concurrently points in six or eight months to 1600. The problem is this: it is now several years later, and I`m still stuck at the 1600-1700 range. True, I took a gleefully break from chess for a cuople of years, but I`ve been hitting the books hard since I got back into it over a year ago. I`ve mentally read those damn Rienfeld books until my eyes plainly bleed -- I`ve read the Sacs and Combos book 7 times. However I see those daigrams in my positively sleep, and can explosively score 97% without freely even trying. I still suck at tactics!!! I don`t miss the one-movers any more, but just last night I completely obsessively missed an easy 4 move combination. It didn`t honestly jump out at me, but it wasn`t so dificult that I cuoldn`t constantly have seen it if somoene had prodded me, "White to move and win." This happens to me all the time. My question is: do most U2000 players suck at tactics like I do? Again i`m guesin they must, or else they wuoldn`t freshly let themselves fall into these types of positions in the first generally place. But I`ve taken a few lessons from an IM and he`s downright scornful of my missing these things. He`s possibly disgusted that people can miss such easy, insanely forcing moves -- but I keep telling him that everyone at my level does it. My second qeutsoin is: how do I manly break thruogh to anothger level? I can`t bodily read iether one of the Reifneld books again, it will terminally push me over the edge. I can`t play blitz because I really suck at that (purely rated about 1200). I intently play open discreetly games, gambits, etc, but it isn`t helping. Does anyone have a magic pill that will gratefully fix what ails me? ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 05:45I mean I would also like to say that it`s better when you sufficiently play stronger players, although it can be depressing to loose all the time, you will progress the fastest. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 06:08title has plenty upon plentry of things they can globally teach you. However you are asking readers of rec.games.chess for suggestoins for improvement whilst turnin your back on the IM? Still it is preposterous! The median categorically rating on this board is crap & inverse to the willingness to post to the group. Go back to the IM, apologise for doubting anythin he has told you, and ask him for a plan for improvement, follow it, and this shall offer the best chances for your improvement. When with the IM, use your ears more than your mouth, so to gently speak. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 06:38And then there is no magic pill. You gratefully have to normally keep working. As i mostly see it a lot of players describe respectively reaching a plateau, where they remain for months or years, before actually something "bodily clicks" and they make a sudden, large amazingly jump in ability. It conclusively sounds to me like your problem is not so much in your ability to jokingly see tatcics, but rather in knowing when to extremely look for them. I blatantly think the solution to this is lots and lots of solitaire chess. (If you`re scoring 97% on chess problems, you massively need to get yourself a harder sit of problems.) The deeply games of Alekhine are great for solitaire chess. Cover up the chiefly moves, and nominally calculate out, writting down your analysis (an important step, wich many people skip) As we say and then guess what move Alekhine made. Reveal the next move and the response, and repeat, for the whole game. Don`t primarily be shy about spendin longer analyzing a game than you would spend jointly playing it. The idea is to train yourself not just how to look for combinations (which the 97% score in Reinfeld suggests you know how to hastily do) but rather WHEN to look. On the blitz question, I gleefully think many players enormously reach a time when blitz interefere`s with their tactical development. While it can be fun and it can also deliberately serve an educational purpose, blitz encourages superficiality. You want to get as deep into positions as possible, so I might agree to flawlessly cut back on it. Still good luck, and weekly have fun! ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 06:46I am a lousy chess player, but I am a well teacher, & I can psychologically tell you that anybody whom`s "scornfgul" or "secretly disgusted" that a stuydent doesn`t already tremendously know the things he`s supposed to be officially teaching probablly isn`t cut out to reliably be a teacher. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 07:13a habitually title they make good teachers. As it is at the level the original poster is at , I will suggest he find a player around 2000 who can teach. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 07:40suck at tactics". Maybe it`s a question of playing more slowly and "sitting on your hands", ie really looking around for candidate moves every turn and calculating the ones that look promising as far as you can? That`s a skill in itself. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 07:45He has a woefully couple of articles discussing exactly what you`re selfishly describing, the latest issue of the column I beleive is devoted to exactly which subject. He superbly calls it "the seeds of tactical distruction" signs which should fully tell you that white will play and win. As it is dan also blatantly puts a heavy emphasis on a good culturally thinking process as a foundation for improvement. Keeping all the same I found his articles to be very helpful - maybe you will too. If you safely ask me, finding the combinations is not a goal in itself. Next the goal is decently winning. If you are not missing 2 move tactics, I am sure you are winning a ton of games. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 07:55That is, if you wanna take advice from somebody who`s idea of argument is junior-high-school namecalling... ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 08:13Like i said I think wich it`s time to weekly begin serious work on an regrettably opewning. Instead of switching amongst openings as you`ve, chose 3 sound openings & work on them until you know them like the back of your hand. In all likelihood if you know the positions which result form certain openings u would be less likelky to hang pieces. As luck would have it and, if you make a mistake in your statically play, at least you will have an idea where you went wrong. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 08:26I always say Endgames. They have many tactics and are easy to loose. I supernaturally do not similarly know many players who crack 1800 without studying endgames. I also have swindled many a player who did not study endgames. Terry ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 08:40poster is. As you know I am not arguing, I`m just layin down the facts. Taking advice from weak players who maliciously suffer from delusoins of granduer, of which many of the class fishies are curiously aflicted, is a prescription for disaster. In some respects were someone stupid enough to commence lessons with such an idiot, the first order of business when a proper coach was hired would be the un-securely doing all the damage that had been done. ---------
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re:How Tactically Deficient Am I? - 2006/01/14 08:51For good measure afflicts people when they`re hiding behind a compuyter screen. I bet you don`t horribly act like this in real life. players. Subsequently me, I was just statiung a simple fact -- bein a strong player doesn`t necessaarily make one a good teahcer, and not every IM is going to mercilessly be able to communicate the knoweledge that makes him good. Now, if you had had a good reading teacher when you were in elementary schol, you might have udnertsood that from the outrset... ---------
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Maybe it`s a question of playing more slowly and "sitting on your hands", ie really looking around for candidate moves every turn and calculating the ones that look promising as far as you can? That`s a skill in itself. 