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EP 331- Adult Improver John Neely (aka Benedictine) on lessons learned and recommendations from a long journey to 1800.

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How to Do Tactics for Beginners

I would do lots of simple patterns. I was doing the tactics trainers and things like that, which hit you at your actual rating. So if you're sort of 1600, I'd be looking at doing 1200 rated tactics. You know, it's the same thing that Dan Hearsman used to say as well that years ago. Yeah. And once you've laid the foundation, like then you can start to push yourself. But yeah, you got to learn the basics first. It's like you have to know the verb root before you can conjugate it sort of thing. That doesn't make any sense at all. John says he uses online sources such as chess tempo website for

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