How to Find Chess Tactics in Quiet Positions?

September 8, 2020 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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A lot of chess players ask “When to look for tactics? Why do I miss to find some tactics? How to find tactics in quiet/calm positions?”, and this might have happened even to you. A position might look really calm, but an explosive tactics comes out of nowhere! But the important question is – how to find them in your games?

In every chess game, regardless of which game you’re thinking about, there are tactics. Very often, they are kept behind the curtains such that you don’t see them, but they are always there.

In the following video lesson, the RCA guest coach IM Asaf Givon will explain to you how to find tactics in quiet positions, with some really great examples.

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