2) Learn Chess Tactics by John Nunn (all important tactical themes are explained)
3) Chess Gems 1000 Combinations you must know by Igor Sukhin
4) 1001 Winning Combinations by Fred Reinfeld
5) 1001 Winning ways to Checkmate by Fred Reinfeld
6) Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations, and Games by Laszlo Polgar
Go over the problems and combinations again and again and again until you can see them in your sleep 6-9 months of work and practice (even 35 minutes a day helps) you'll not only be better but a deadly Chess Tactician.|||Thanks to Cerulean, MGD, Alec38, T-Bone, and Niks.
Cerulean made several great points, but he basically stated what I'm already doing- setting up a good, flexible defense and then making quiet positional moves until my opponent blunders or runs low on time.
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|||Niks, I'm a computer programmer too (background in oo programming) and I really like your suggestion to look at heuristic chess algorithms.
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|||The book by Palliser is good it's been computer checked for mistakes and Nunn's is an excellent choice.
Good luck in your improvement!
Alec
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|||1) Defend your position.
2) Look for three moves or a series of three moves that you can make over and over without drawing attention. This will "allow" your opponent to marshal their offense.
3) If you play often enough you will notice that most speed chess players select from a very limited number of opening moves, giving you insight into how they will play later on.
4) If you have played fast and banked time throughout the game, by the time 2/3's of your opponents time is gone they will start to offer you switch compromises. When you are ahead on both time and points you can start to play a little more slowly.
5) Remember, messy to you often looks messy to your opponent so use your series of repeat moves (Step 2) to give yourself time to think while eating at your opponents time bank.|||Tactical play is a matter of pattern recognition. So obviously (and you know this), you will need to study tactical problems...and I mean hundreds or thousands of them.
Couple of good books:
Learn Chess Tactics: by John Nunn. This guy is a great teacher and writer
Chess Tactics for Champions by Susan Polgar
"Win At Chess" by Ron Curry (an excellent teacher) has an good tactics section, and it includes examples of tactics that are not always found in other tactical books.
Winning Chess Tactics by Yasser Sierawan.
Perhaps not all of these will be appropriate for you at your level, but it might be worth it to you to check them out... it's obviously a good thing that you can recognize the fact that your game needs improvement in the tactical area. So it might be good to start with the basics.
Hope this helps. If it doesn't help you, hope it'll help someone out there! But sometimes, as players, we hit a road block, and when that happens, sometimes going back to the basics is the best thing to do.
The only thing I would add is, when you study tactical problems, don't just solve them quickly and move on... really SEE the patterns that are in each problem, so that in the long run, you'll see them OTB in your games. And study consistenly...don't study for 3 hours one day, and then take 2 weeks off... study a little bit each day, and that way you'll remember things better... much like studying for a course all along, and consistently, rather than cramming during an all night before the final exam.|||You need to go over open games.
Start with Greco (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplay鈥?/a> keeping in mind that the play has mistakes and the defenses are questionable, but these give a good feel for open, attacking games.
Move on to Anderssen (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplay鈥?/a> where the same attacking attitude is displayed in world-class games but where modern principles haven't yet been fully discovered.
Next, explore the games of Morphy (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplay鈥?/a> the genius of attacking play, who brought things to a whole new level. In open games, you can often find the right move by asking yourself, "What would Morphy do?"
To kick it up a notch, you may want to go over the games of Steinitz (http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplay鈥?/a> who started his career in the attacking style of Morphy, but then pretty much invented the positional style we take for granted today. Unearthing that shift from tactical to positional in the games of the "Father of Modern Chess" should help you in your commendable shift from positional to tactical (note, I say "commendable" because you want to be able to play all sorts of positions well, and some call for a more tactical approach).
In modern times, games you should go over are those by Bronstein, Tal, Fischer, and Kasparov. You can find collections of their (and other champion) games here: http://www.chessgames.com/wcc.html
For a book, I would recommend Bronstein's "200 Open Games."|||http://www.chesstactics.org/
here u go... u can learn more tactics.. i generally refer here whenever i meet some problem.. but practice is vital step fo chess.. do practice with ur frnds or family at home i.e not on computer...|||http://www.logicalchess.com/resources/le鈥?/a>
and the sites in this search
http://chess.about.com/lr/tactics/356105鈥?/a>|||start a charity to support the color blind|||practice always makes good impressions
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