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#330 – Hikaru Nakamura: Chess, Magnus, Kasparov, and the Psychology of Greatness

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What Kind of Tactics Are Important for Beginners?

I think the most is by learning these basic tactical themes at, at the beginner levels. And that's how you improve. The only thing for me that I definitely am doing very frequently when I, when I play is trying to look at my pieces. Are they placed on the optimal squares? Are there better squares? Then once I get past that, like using the basic logic, I start to think about what pure calculations, like what are the moves that make a lot of sense and start calculating direct moves.

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