Questions tagged [tactics]

Questions relating to maneuvers that take advantage of short-term opportunities, such as forks, discovered attacks, skewers, etc.

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Percentage of decisive games decided by tactical mistakes?

In their book, The Woodpecker Method, Axel Smith and Hans Tikkanen give these percentages of decisive games decided by tactical mistakes: GMs 42% 2200-2400 44% 2000-2200 63% 1800-2000 72% They say: ...
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Creating Tactics to practice in Arena chess

This is a two part question. I have over 2000 tactics from books I would like to create in Arena chess (using Stock Fish), to practice. How do I load and save these tactics in the Arena Chess GUI/...
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