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Improving Your Tactical Vision: 5 Chess Position to Study

Yury Markushin
Yury Markushin
11.12.2014
Category: Problems
Tags: chess tactics, training,

It is well know that in order to improve your positional understanding you need to study games of stronger chess players. What do we do about tactics? Do you need to solve tons of problems? The answer is ‘yes’ and ‘no’. You need to solve the right type of tactics, the ones that actually have occurred in real games.

I have good news for you though. By studying today’s problems you will not only improve your tactical vision but also will add few ideas to your positional arsenal.

Note: as I have mentioned above these are not purely tactical problems. Sure, they have strong tactical motifs, but in order to find them you need to understand what’s going on in the position and only then you will be able to find the correct solution. It is a mix of tactics + positional play. That said, there are maybe multiple ways to play one or another position.

These positions are good for chess players who want not only to work on their tactics skills, but also aim improve their positional understanding.

Even more effective way to improve positional play is studying well annotated GM games. If you’re serious about it, I suggest checking out our training course. Sure, you need to commit to it for 3 weeks or a little longer, but trust me it’s worth it at the end! We focus on many important elements of the game including positional understanding, attacking play, blunder avoidance, endgame play, tactics, etc. Make sure to check it out.

Position 1. Steinitz, William – Chigorin, Mikhail, London 1883

White has just played a bad move 26. Kg1?, how can black take advantage of it?

tactics 1

Black to move and win

Position 2. Botvinnik, Mikhail – Grigoriev, Nikolay, Leningrad 1927

White has a strong combination in mind that will totally destroy black’s position, can you find it?

tactics 2

White to move and win

Position 3. Capablanca, Jose Raul – Steiner, Herman, Los Angeles 1933

White has a very strong attack in progress, but the black’s king escaped on c5. Is there a way to continue the attack?

tactics 3

White to move and win

Position 4. Lasker, Emanuel – Marshall, Frank James, St. Petersburg 1914

White has a way to deliver a forced checkmate. Do you see how Lasker did it?

tactics 4

White to move and win

Position 5. Pillsbury, Harry Nelson – Lasker, Emanuel, St. Petersburg 1896

White has some serious material advantage, so black needs to act quickly. What did Lasker play?

tactics 5

Black to move and win

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Evgeniy
03.01.2015 21:02

1…Qe2, Rxf6, NxRf6; Qe5,QxQe5; BxQe5…
2.D6;
3.Qxb7(black-Qb6), Rxc6 (black-Kb5), RxQ….
4.Nb5, .., Nc7 (black-BxNc7),Qa7,(black-Kc8) Qc7#
5.Qc3,Ka4; b5+, Kxb5; Qc4+, Ka5; Bd8+.. (…Qb6 -BxQb6#)

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suraj
03.01.2015 06:01

#1) Ne3
#2) d6
#3).1)Qc4+ Kb6 2)Qb4+ if Ka6 then a4 mate in 1 so Kc7 3)Rf7+ Qd7 4)Rxd7 winning Queen.
#4).1)Nxc6+ Bxc6 2)Qa7+ Kc8 3)b7+ Kc7 4)b8=Q+# checkmate
#5).1)Qc3+ Ka4 2) b5+ Kxb5 3)Qc4+ Ka5 3)Bd8+#checkmate

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Doug
03.01.2015 05:26

1. Qe3+ forcing exchange of queens with easy win for black afterwards. Knight will end up on F5 threatening bishop and pawn and preventing rook check as well. The two rooks and knight against the 2 bishops and rook will be a good long game potentially but black has clear material advantage.

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laerte
01.29.2015 14:15

Position 5
Qc3- Ka4
Pb5+ KxP
Qc4+ Ka5
Bd8++

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Luiz
12.17.2014 18:39

1 ?
2 d6 d7
5 bxd4

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Barry
11.13.2014 22:39

There are no answers to compare with our own! Whats this???

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