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What does my child learn from tactics training?

8/20/2015

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The ultimate purpose for any training, no matter it's tactic training or endgame training, or opening training, is to prepare for his/her tournaments (or real games). So what s/he wants to learn is something that might be beneficial to his/her tournaments.

First, s/he wants to learn patterns, or motifs in chess term. The more motifs s/he knows, the faster s/he can generate ideas over the board. In chess games, especially for beginngers, ideas are much more important than calculation. If s/he can come up good ideas often, s/he will win more games. Without ideas, calculation is just brutal force and will not be efficient.

Second, s/he learns how to calculate. Most problems should be 2-5 moves deep, with a few variations. That's the type of problems s/he will face in his/her games. S/he should sense the possibility for a tactics, see it, calm down, and calculate all variations. Because during the tournament games, time is limited. S/he has to learn to quickly decide how much s/he can allocate to find solution. Time management is critical. when s/he has enough time, s/he should be patient, following the variation move by move, remembering everything, clarifying each line, quickly confirming or denying any short variation, and concentrating on one or two long variations.

Third, s/he learns to double or triple check his/her work. S/he needs go over all possibilities to search for any hole in his/her solution. Sometimes s/he has to redo his/her calculation.

Through training, s/he should refine these processes, making them more automatic, smooth, and efficient. In the end, s/he should have higher confidence that s/he has found the correct solution, and most times it should be true.
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