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| I have a bad tactical eye |
I’ve never liked
blitz. The reason is because I have a bad tactical eye which is what you need
for blitz. And, not being good at it, I avoid it.
Probably the main reason for my dislike of tactics goes way back to my
early training and chess heroes. When I was
actually studying chess decades ago few books on tactics existed; most books
concerned themselves with the positional aspects of the game. Also, Botvinnik ruled the chess world and he
was a positional guy. And after wearing
the covers off books like 100 Selected
Games (Botvinnik), Reshevsky On
Chess, Basic Chess Endings (Fine), Tarrasch’s
Best Games (Reinfeld), The Middlegame
in Chess (Fine) and Modern Chess
Strategy (Pachman) tactical study just got neglected.
Because I never really put any effort into
studying tactics, even now after fifty plus years, my tactical ability
is at best mediocre...actually, if I'm being honest, bad is a better description. I just finished
two 10-minute games on chessdotcom. The
first one I lost when I hung a N in a nearly equal position. In this game, I thought I played pretty well
until I looked at it with Houdini…isn’t that always the case? I didn’t realize all the tactics that were
going on in the middlegame…typical of us rating challenged folks. I hate blitz because it makes me look so bad.
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