3/20/2018 – Some of the most important tactical questions are very basic: am I material up or down? Which pieces are attacked and not defended? Do I have a check? Does my opponent have a check? Etc. Practicing to answer these questions quickly will speed up your chess thinking and help you to improve your chess intuition. | Drawing: ChessBase

12/18/2017 – Botvinnik has many quotes which well describe this book. One which comes to mind is the following: "Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately." Often as chess players we look for the miraculous shortcut, which will improve our strength, without putting in the necessary hard work to achieve it. Instead, the following review shows how one cannot become good at chess, without the painstaking work of analysis!

12/18/2017 – For an adult player Christmas can come early — In this case more than a year ago, May of 2016, when reviewer Davide Nastasio discovered Magic Of Tactics 2. Here's his take just in time for the holidays. There's also a corresponding book, which Davide will look at in a follow-up post.

1/14/2016 – The main problem every chess amateur faces is to develop a tactical vision that will help you spot the combinations in any given position quickly and accurately. While talented youngsters are easily able to do that, adults spend years in a vain attempt to improve. The ChessBase Tactics Trainer now has a new function that will help you get better: the Tactics Fight. Statutory warning: the app is extremely addictive!