How to Find Typical Tactics from Any Chess Position
Turn any opening position into personalised tactical training with Chesspertise.
9/13/20263 min read
When you study a new opening, learning the moves is only part of the job.
You also need to recognise the tactical ideas that can arise from the positions you are likely to reach.
Imagine, for example, that you are learning a line of the King’s Gambit. You reach a particular position and wonder:
What kinds of tactics actually occur from here?
With Chesspertise, you can find out.
1. Start from the position you want to study
Open Search Position and navigate to the exact position you are interested in.
In this example, I chose a position from the King’s Gambit.
Chesspertise searched the database and found 192 games that had reached this position.
From here you can already study useful information such as the results from the position and the most popular continuations.
But now we want to go one step further.
Click Search Tactics.
2. Choose the type of tactics you want Chesspertise to find
Chesspertise opens the Search Tactics screen.
Here you can decide how long the tactical combinations should be.
For example, you can search for:
Tactic in 1 — a one-move tactical solution
Tactic in 2 — a two-move sequence
Tactic in 3, Tactic in 4, and so on.
You can select several lengths at the same time.
In my example, I asked Chesspertise to search for tactics from one to four moves.
Generally, the deeper the tactical search, the more analysis Chesspertise needs to perform, so longer combinations can take more time to find.
You also choose where the resulting files should be saved.
Because I was using the Windows version of Chesspertise, I selected:
Documents/ tactics
Then click Start Search.
3. Let Chesspertise search the games for tactical opportunities
This is where the interesting part happens.
Chesspertise doesn't simply give you random tactical puzzles.
It starts with the 192 games that actually reached the position you selected and analyses the positions that occurred afterwards.
In this example Chesspertise:
Scanned 192 games
Analysed 8,426 positions
Found 54 tactical positions
So from one position in the King’s Gambit, I now have 54 real tactical examples to study.
And because they came from games that reached the position I am learning, the resulting tactics are directly connected to my opening preparation.
[IMAGE: Completed tactical search showing 192 games, 8,426 positions and 54 positions found]
4. Chesspertise creates the training material for you
When the search is complete, Chesspertise saves the results automatically in the folder you selected.
The tactics are organised into PGN files according to their tactical length.
For example, tactics in one move can be stored separately from tactics in two, three or four moves.
I can then return to Chesspertise and open one of those generated files in the Chess Editor.
Now I have a collection of tactical positions originating from the opening position I wanted to learn.
[IMAGE: Chess Editor showing one of the generated tactical PGN files]
Opening training and tactical training become connected
This is the key idea behind the feature.
Most tactics trainers give you excellent puzzles, but those puzzles may come from completely unrelated positions.
Chesspertise lets you ask a much more specific question:
“What tactics occur from the position I am actually learning?”
If you are studying the King’s Gambit, you can search for King’s Gambit tactics.
If you are learning a particular Sicilian Defence position, you can search for tactics arising from that position.
The same applies to the French Defence, Queen’s Gambit, Caro-Kann, or almost any position you can find in your database.
Instead of learning an opening as a sequence of moves, you start learning the tactical patterns hidden inside it.
From memorising moves to understanding positions
Recognising tactical patterns is one of the things that makes opening knowledge useful in a real game.
You may not remember every variation perfectly, but if you recognise the typical sacrifices, mating patterns, overloaded pieces, pins and tactical weaknesses associated with the position, you understand much more than just the moves.
Chesspertise helps turn your opening study into practical training based on positions that can genuinely occur in your games.
Choose a position. Find the games. Discover the tactics. Train the patterns.
Train smarter. Play stronger.
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