![]() ![]() Tactical positions require concrete calculation rather than strategic long-range planning, and that is what makes most chess programs so strong compared to human players in these kind of positions. Tactical positions usually involve tension and offer tactical motives and moves, possibilities to attack and counter attack kings or valuable pieces, often one tempo is decisive. Max Euwe: Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.Gerald Abrahams: The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.Richard Teichmann: Chess is 99 percent tactics.The concepts of strategy and tactics in chess and other sports are derived from military origins as defined as a fourfold hierarchy of strategy, operational objective, tactic and task. During the endgame, technical or strategical play seems to dominate, but there are many tactical motives like pursuits, stalemate, zugzwang, pawns breakthrough and passed pawns to name a few, to be considered there as well. While tactics is most often a domain of the middlegame, it already appears in various opening lines, specially gambits, very early in the game. ![]() Often tactics of several types are conjoined in a combination including short-term sacrifices. Tactical moves either change the material balance immediately, or in a wider sense, threaten to win material and/or checkmate considering certain tactical motives. ![]() Tactics in chess is the coordinated task in realizing short-term advantage or equilibration, yielding in mate attack, material gain, or forcing draw in inferior positions. ![]()
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