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Tactics & Patterns

Named motifs, mating nets, and the calculation habits that win club games.

Tactics & Patterns · Sep 5, 2026 · 9 min

A Chess Tactics Training Plan by Rating: Volume, Review, and Logging

How many puzzles to solve, how hard they should be, and how to review them, band by band from under 1000 to 1800 and up. Includes what actually counts as solving, the misses log that makes the rest work, and how to tell when to move up a tier.

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