Complete Chess Tactics Guide For Under-1800 Rated Players

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Chess tactics may seem complicated with over 50 different tactical motifs and thousands of chess tactical puzzles that you need to solve in order to learn/memorize these common tactical patterns. That's why in this video lesson, GM Igor Smirnov presents to you a simple, most comprehensive, and a complete chess tactics guide.

This guide is universal that will help you spot tactics in your games and also not to overlook tactics from your opponent. In this complete system, GM Igor Smirnov will walk you through the A-Z of chess tactics, break it down in to easy steps so that you can understand it fully.

Most chess players can easily spot tactics while solving puzzles because they already know that they have to look for tactics. While the same players fail to spot tactical shots in their own games. If you can relate to this, this complete chess tactics guide will help you spot tactics in your games within just seconds!

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00:00 Comprehensive Chess Tactics Guide for Intermediates
00:38 What is chess tactics vs chess strategy?
00:57 How to find chess tactics in your games?
01:30 Precondition for tactics: Attacking move
03:22 1. Spotting weaknesses in opponent's position
05:31 2. Candidate moves: checks, captures, threats
08:53 Example-2
10:53 Calculate/Play the most forcing move possible
12:04 No need to know all tactical motifs
12:43 Puzzle for you: can you find the win?

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📗 Learn the Essentials to Win Chess Games Easily

[gpvcam]

My rating is 250.
I m coming under the 1800 rated category.
I m happy.

[CastlesKingSide]

Last puzzle: 1.Q:d6 c:d6 2.Nf7. Either black plays Kg8 and we take on g5, and we won a piece, either rook takes on f7, then we have Re8 check, Rf8, R:f8 checkmate. This is why it was important to eliminate the bishop first, else the f8 square would have been guarded twice

[gundluruharipriya]

GM Igor Smirnov is the best coach we’ve ever had.
Keep it up!!!😃😃😃😃😃

[josephsalmonte]

You've taught me so much over the last few years. Another great video. Thanks mate 🙂👍

[sesh]

You are absolutely right- solving puzzles wouldn't help spot tactics - rather, as you say, we need to understand the principles

[rainerausdemspring]

The second example ist really nice and it took me a few seconds to find the solution. Spectacular ...

[GMIgorSmirnov]

► Chapters

00:00 Comprehensive Chess Tactics Guide for Intermediates
00:38 What is chess tactics vs chess strategy?
00:57 How to find chess tactics in your games?
01:30 Precondition for tactics: Attacking move
03:22 1. Spotting weaknesses in opponent's position
05:31 2. Candidate moves: checks, captures, threats
08:53 Example-2
10:53 Calculate/Play the most forcing move possible
12:04 No need to know all tactical motifs
12:43 Puzzle for you: can you find the win?

[JonEmerson]

It's incredible to see every chess tactic discussed through a single game, in a video of 13 minutes. Classic Igor Smirnov, doing the impossible. BTW almost never do Igor's "traps" work, they're several layers deep in opponent mistakes that of course there's a "trap".

[markomesik]

1. queen takes bishop on e6, pawn captures
2. knight f7 check, rook captures
3. Rook e8 check, rook blocks
4. rook takes - check mate

[robertpease]

I find at times I will find a forcing move, and stop there, because I get an advantage, and fail to find a better move. This can create a blind spot because I am so focused on an advantage. NF7 looks fantastic, because you win the exchange, and finding QxB harder because you want to go forward with what you know is an winning move, with less calculations, finding QxB, then PxQ, then you follow up with NF7, and when RxN, then you can RE8 to force the check mate. The quick and easy victories will blind me to the ultimate win.

[roloa]

Thank you, GM Smirnov; I think this is the best lesson I have ever seen! (May I call you Igor now? 😄). I hope my answer is correct?

[hondorama]

Thanks Igor!! I am new to your content and its aready making a difference in my game.

[sojogos]

Last puzzle: Kf7, check and attack both king and queen. If black takes whith rook f7, you win material whith bishop f7. If just move, you won the queen and the game

[nazirkazi]

Excellent Video GM Igor! Thank you so much for all your videos on chess that you post for free! I have enjoyed watching your videos and learning so much from them! I can't thank you enough for doing this for all of us that enjoy chess as a hobby!

[Cousinsjay]

Very very instructive. Great job, this has helped me tremendously get my thought process down. Do you give private lessons?

[NormalChess-po]

1. Kf7 2. Bxf7 3.Re8 check Bf8 5.Rf8# checkmate

[jonasherman]

Really great video! I truly believe that certainly in the middlegame, it can be extremely adventagous (especially for beginner/intermediate players) to ask yourself the same questions such as these every move to not overlook things

[florasinaboykillermlbb]

It's a three move checkmate first knight to f5, black has to take the knight or the queen is gone, then rook to e8 check, black back to the same but late and then checkmate white rook takes black rook check mate❤easy

[michaelrobinson]

Saw the puzzle. Immediately thought of N f7 + as a good move, forcing the moves R x f7, B x f7 winning a Rook at the cost of a Knight.

But once White takes the Rook I'd be at a bit of a loss and have no idea how to build on the material advantage I'd just gained as B d7 rescues Black's position by preventing the threat of R e8 +.