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Key takeaways:
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Tactical awareness is the skill which tells us when it's time for a tactic instead of strategic play!
Higher rated players can differentiate tactical positions from strategic ones purely on intuition, but we can train this skill using the Triggers mentioned in the video.
Triggers to spike your tactical awareness and look for a tactic:
1) Undefended pieces / Loosely defended pieces
2) Pieces lined up (X-ray attacks, forkable pieces)
3) Weak enemy king
4) Enemy queen low on squares (or rook if queens are off)
5) Overloaded pieces
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Chapters:
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Stream starting
1:34 What we'll cover
2:04 Position 1 - Clear tactical example
2:49 Position 1 - How to continue?
5:34 Position 1 - Solution & Explanation
6:17 Position 2 - Clear strategic example
6:34 Position 2 - What makes it strategic
7:05 How to see tactics in real games!
7:47 Answering chat
7:58 Position 3 - Real game situations are unclear!
8:18 Position 3 - Tactical elements and noting them for later!
9:10 TRIGGER 1 - Undefended/Loosely defended piece!
10:12 Explaining the concept of undefended and loosely defended pieces
11:21 Question: "Can you explain a loosely defended piece better?"
13:06 TRIGGER 2 - Pieces lined up (X-ray attacks)
14:50 How to continue?
18:30 The entire list of triggers to spike tactical awareness!
19:08 TRIGGER 2 - Pieces lined up (Forkable pieces)
21:50 IMPORTANT: Always calculate concrete lines, nothing replaces calculation!
23:28 Question: "What's the difference between tactical and strategic calculation?"
24:07 TRIGGER 3 - Weak enemy king
26:55 TRIGGER 4 - Enemy queen low on squares
29:40 Game example of Trigger 4
32:20 TRIGGER 5 - Overloaded pieces
34:18 Overloaded pieces explained
35:15 Not all pieces defending 2 things are overloaded!
36:35 Conclusion of all the triggers
38:32 The Test positions!
38:51 Test 1 - Tactics or Strategy? What to do?
49:21 Test 2 - Tactics or Strategy? What to do?
51:50 Test 3 - Tactics or Strategy? What to do?
54:30 Test 4 - Tactics or Strategy? What to do?
59:32 Test 5 - Tactics or Strategy? What to do?
1:01:32 Improvement visible already! :D
1:03:24 OFFTOPIC: Dragon Sicilian tactical patterns (weak e7 pawn)
1:06:13 Conclusion of the topic and stream!
1:07:27 I randomly disconnect.. Luckily at the end :')
1:09:04 Thanks for watching :)
1:09:12 Outro
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[@whimsnickal]

Great video - very instructive (just like all your content) and easy to understand!

[@LionChess]

Thank you so much, Nick! I hope you enjoyed it :D

[@fishnets007]

Thank you, I learnt so much from this, your other videos are great, but this was a brilliant move.

[@LionChess]

That makes me very happy, thank you for watching and commenting! Good luck applying this 😄

[@RookieRedhead]

This was so educational 🥰

[@LionChess]

I'm really glad it was! 😄 Hopefully it helps many improve their game