The Ultimate Guide to Doing Tactics
With insights from GM Jacob Aagaard
Last week, I had Grandmaster Jacob Aagaard on the live stream to discuss the topic “Do tactics…but how?!”
Do tactics…but how?! With GM Jacob Aagaard
Thank you Dalton Perrine, Highground Chess, 3 Questions Deep, Dan Bock, Mike Mills, and many others for tuning into my live video with Jacob@qualitychess.co.uk! Join me for my next live video in the app.
GM Aagaard has trained top players like Boris Gelfand, Nodirbek Abdusattorov, and many others. He’s the guy grandmasters go to when they want to make the leap from “normal” GM to elite, or elite to World Championship contender.
At the same time, he’s got great insights for ordinary club players as well. In our conversation he described how he helped an LA guitar player with little time for chess make tremendous progress using a simple tactics routine.
The recording has lots of other great ideas, but I know it’s not easy for everyone to listen to a 2-hour recording. Today, I want to boil down that conversation into a crisp, actionable protocol to help you get the most out of doing tactics.
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