Chess Tactics vs Positional Play The Illusionary Battle英文电子书.pdf

Mark Lowerys Exciting World of Chess / Advanced Lessons * * * * * * * * * * Tactics vs. Positional Play? The Illusionary Battle Part 1 - Introduction by Mark Lowery Some may question why this lesson is put into Advanced Lessons. I have chosen to place this in Advanced Lessons instead of Beginner Lessons because it is a step up in working on improving chess playing skills, from the rules and basics principles into higher level/advanced concepts. In particular, the lesson includes both beginner and advanced level examples, so I felt it best to place it in Advanced Lessons. Aren’t both these essentially the same thing, just stated differently? Tactics and positional play – while often taught and viewed as separate and distinct learning aspects of the game of chess –are interrelated. In order for a player to develop a solid framework for his or her game plan, the player must understand the interrelations in order to develop successful combinations to accomplish goals. The tie that binds together all aspects of chess playing is strategy - the implementation of the game plan. Each cornerstone and building block of the plan’s framework “must be coordinated through “combination”, or else somewhere along the way the game plan will falter on the shoals of reality that it was in the end analysis a teetering “house of cards”. Another way to view this is how I saw it stated on a website promoting the purchase of an e-book on strategy: Strategy is the most fundamental part of chess. Strategy means systematic action based on a correct understanding of the game, implementing a plan aimed at weakening and – in the end – destroying the opponent’s position. Tactics are single moves within the framework of a strategic plan. The last part, as you will see in this lesson, is too narrow in my view because to me tactics is broader than just single moves, and both tactics and positional play is interrelated. If a player’s tactical arsenal is limited a