Importance of Solving Positional Puzzles and Chess Compositions

January 17, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

Remote Chess AcademyWed, January 17, 2018 4:16pmURL:
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♕ How to solve positional puzzles and chess compositions – https://goo.gl/FJffiU

Most chess players know about the type of puzzles familiarly known as tactics. However, there are other types of training positions that can help you really exercise your brain.

In real/practical games, we face positions where we require positional understanding to find good moves or a plan. We cannot solve these positions in phone/book/Internet in a matter of few minutes. How to train yourself in such positional problems? And why is it really important?

That’s what RCA guest coach IM Valeri Lilov will teach you in this video lesson!

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