I recently had the opportunity to do an event for The Chess Gym where I discussed five lesser known ways to use tactic trainers. This was a live discussion based on my most popular Substack post with the same name that you can find here:
5 Lesser Known Ways to Use Tactics Trainers
The most common advice for the majority of chess players that are looking to improve is to “train tactics”. In the past this meant getting a tactic book and solving each position one-by-one. If you were new to tactics then hopefully the book was categorized by theme (forks, pins, skewers, et…
If you’ve read that post in the past then a lot of the things in the video below are going to be familiar to you already. That being said, in the video I do go through multiple examples showing how to utilize all of these things on lichess.org and chess.com.
If you haven’t read that post yet, then the video will probably show you some new things that you may have never thought about before. Either way, I hope you get something from the video recording below and enjoy the discussion :-)