Chess for Beginners: A Complete Guide to Chess Fundamentals and How to Play Chess like a Pro and Win Every Single Match by Antonov Myers

Author:Antonov Myers [Myers, Antonov]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, pdf
Published: 2021-01-22T16:00:00+00:00

Practicing Tactics!

Firstly, what is a tactic? There are basically two types of thinking in chess - the first is tactics and the second is strategy. Tactics are short-term calculations and strategy is long-term planning. A tactic can be a short 2-3 move combination which wins you material or checkmates your opponent (sometimes tactics can be much longer - you might be able to see a 10-move combination is you’re a really strong player). Strategy on the other hand is when you think longer-term about things such as where to place your pieces, what you’d like your pawn structure to be, and what you’d like your long-term plan to be. Making a strategic move might not help in the short-term but it might help you 20 or 30 moves later in the game.

Both tactics and strategy are important - but it’s more important to learn tactics, especially if you’re a beginner. The problem with learning strategy is that you can spend a lot of time trying to learn strategy without really improving your chess skill. Learning tactics on the other hand will help you improve your chess skill very quickly and is one of the most time-efficient ways to improve your chess skill. In fact, practicing tactics and practicing endgames (which we’ll get onto in the next chapter) give you the most bang-for-your-buck in terms of chess improvement versus time invested. Spending a lot of time learning strategy is only really worth it for top players. In fact, you could become a top chess player just by becoming really good at tactics and not knowing much strategy - but there are no top chess players in the world who are really good at strategy and really bad at tactics.

Practicing tactics will help you see and find more opportunities to win material or checkmate your opponent. Even more importantly, practicing tactics will help you see your opponent’s threats and ensure you don’t make a mistake and allow your opponent to win material or checkmate you. The more you practice tactics the more moves ahead you’ll be able to calculate so that eventually you’ll be able to see 4, 5, 6, 7 or even more moves ahead. I’m about to show you lots of different tactics which you can use in your own games and then we’ll have lots of examples which we’ll practice together so that you can become a strong chess player.

Right let’s get started! We’re going to look at some Material Tactics (where you will win material), then some Checkmate Tactics (where you will checkmate your opponent), and then we’ll look at some more complex tactics.

Think of tactics as like weapons in your arsenal. The more tactics you know, the more different types of weapons you will have to attack your opponent with or defend yourself with. So let’s try to learn as many tactics as possible!

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